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The Spanish government is proposing to adopt fresh measures to subsidise every company, in particular SMEs, as long as they hire the long-term unemployed over the age of 45, in a hope to create new jobs after being hit hard...

Former CEO of highway company Autostrade l’Italia, Giovanni Castellucci, was put under house arrest in connection with the investigation into the 2018 Morandi bridge collapse in Genoa, which killed 43 people. Five other senior managers, including former top managers and...

As Finland is set to take over the Nordic Council presidency in 2021 ahead of the group’s 50th anniversary, the country will prioritise issues related to the environment and digitisation, Finnish Equality and Nordic Cooperation Minister Thomas Blomqvist (Swedish People’s...

European Union governments approved a €1 trillion green "roadmap" for the bloc's lending arm on Wednesday (11 November) that will see it stop financing fossil fuel projects and airport expansions, though climate groups said it did not go far enough.

Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has said that any breakthrough on the ongoing Brexit negotiations between the EU and the UK is unlikely this week, but could come next week when EU leaders hold a summit. Should a deal not...

A power struggle in UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s private office has cost the PM his director of communications. Lee Cain had been offered the post as Johnson’s chief of staff but instead announced his resignation on Thursday after a...

Austria’s government agreed on a legislative package to increase public security in response to last week’s terror attack in Vienna. Under the legislative package, individuals who have been released from prison after absolving their prison sentence will be surveilled electronically...

French consumer defence association Consommation Logement Cadre de vie (CLCV) announced on Wednesday that it had launched a class action lawsuit against German car manufacturer Volkswagen. Although Volkswagen has been paying heavy fines to consumers in countries such as the...

Germany’s latest coronavirus figures are encouraging since the spread of the disease has “significantly reduced” in the past few days, Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Wednesday. However, there has not yet been a “turnaround”, he added. “It is still...

Lithuania has asked Belarus for clarification after its new nuclear plant located some 50 kilometres from the country’s capital suffered an incident just five days after launch. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko took part in the opening of the plant on...

Switzerland is to resume talks with the European Union over a wide-ranging bilateral treaty, including on issues such as protecting workers' rights and wages, that have lain dormant for two years.

The European Commission will soon unveil its ‘ReFuelEU’ initiative, aimed at ratcheting up the amount of sustainable fuel used in aviation. The scheme is eagerly awaited as cheaper access to greener fuels could help reduce air travel’s carbon emissions.

European Union lawmakers have backed a small trade deal with the United States to remove EU tariffs on US lobsters following Democrat Joe Biden's victory in the US presidential election.

The effects of Germany's 1990 reunification have been particularly felt by farmers in eastern Germany whose land was suddenly privatised and left to market forces. Some problems persist to this day, 30 years later, and new ones have since cropped up. EURACTIV Germany reports.

The European Parliament’s legal services gave the greenlight to the legal affairs committee to convene and assess some member states’ requests to lift the immunity of several MEPs. The legal affairs committee deals with sensitive issues and therefore physical presence...

The first anti-Covid vaccinations could be available in the European Union early next year, the bloc's health agency said Wednesday (11 November), as Russian developers reported initial test results showing their Sputnik V vaccine to be 92% effective.

From January 2026, all cars sold in Europe will need to emit zero grams of CO2 per kilometre in order to be considered "sustainable" under the EU's green finance taxonomy, according to a leaked draft seen by EURACTIV.

Greece is preparing a law that will offer a hefty tax incentive to workers who move there from abroad, with the aim of creating more professional jobs and reversing its crisis-era brain-drain, an adviser to the prime minister told Reuters.

Despite growing pressure from both Washington and Brussels for a dialogue between Greece and Turkey, the situation doesn’t seem to improve. Turkey has decided to send again research vessel Oruc Reis accompanied by Turkish warships to the Eastern Mediterranean until...

Spain will from 23 November demand a negative coronavirus test taken within 72 hours for air travellers arriving from countries with a high risk of contracting COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday (11 November).