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Seventeen members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have appointed an independent team of experts to investigate alleged rights violations in Belarus' August presidential election.

German lawmakers approved legislation Thursday (17 September) banning disposable plastic products such as straws, cutlery and cotton buds that are polluting the world's oceans.

The European Commission on Thursday (17 September) defended its plan to bring carbon removals from agriculture, land use and forestry into the EU’s updated climate target for 2030, saying this was in line with UNFCCC standards.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about how US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden warned the UK government about undermining the Irish Good Friday Agreement, the German government issuing an apology to gay members of its military, and so much more.

The EU’s special representative for the Serbia-Kosovo dialogue, Miroslav Lajčak, announced on Thursday (17 September) that expert-level talks between Belgrade and Priština were about mutual financial claims and property, and that they had demonstrated the complexity and sensitivity of those...

The two opposition forces in the Bulgarian parliament – the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) on Thursday (17 September) asked for the resignation of the parliament chief Tsveta Karayancheva. The reasons are different...

Carbon costs for Europe's businesses could double this decade under European Union plans to deliver deeper emissions reductions by 2030, according to analysis of European Commission modelling.

The extremely rare phenomenon Medicane (short for Mediterranean hurricane), which in this case has been named ‘Ianos’, hit the islands of Kefalonia, Ithaca and Zakynthos on Thursday (17 September) as it approached the Ionian sea. Today, Western Greece, Peloponnese and...

The order of face masks to protect pupils from COVID-19 made by the Greek ministry of health made a “spelling error” on the size and as a result, hundreds of thousands of gigantic “full-face” masks were delivered at Greek schools....

Finland failed to protect its citizens from becoming victims of a school shooting back in 2008, the European Court of Human Rights held on Thursday (17 September). The authorities at the time had not taken the possible threat sufficiently seriously...

US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has warned the UK government that any attempt to undermine the Irish Good Friday Agreement could impact the likelihood of a US-UK trade deal. Biden, who is an Irish-American, said that the Irish peace...

53 departments have now exceeded the alert threshold, French Health Minister Olivier Véran told a COVID-19 press conference which will now become a weekly event. In order to “maintain our social [and] economic life,” local measures will be taken, access...

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has vowed to support Poland in its ongoing rule of law dispute with Brussels, adding that Vilnius could follow Warsaw’s example to “de-sovietise our justice system”. Skvernelis and his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, held a...

Welcome to EURACTIV’s AgriFood Brief, your weekly update on all things Agriculture & Food in the EU. You can subscribe here if you haven’t done so yet.   Once again, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has come under...

German carmaker Volkswagen has still not compensated motorists who were defrauded by 2015’s emissions-cheating scandal, according to consumer groups. Five years after Dieselgate, the EU is still struggling to tidy up the mess.

Plans by the European Union to slap sanctions on Belarus have fallen into disarray, sources say, a hostage to internal politicking that one EU official described as a threat to the bloc's credibility.

Social and traditional media, patient organisations and policymakers have all a role to play in providing clear messages when it comes to public health. But without proper investments in health literacy at school, fake news cannot be combatted, according to...

The approval process for the EU’s €750 billion recovery funds may take longer than foreseen, and it would be optimistic to expect the first disbursements by mid-2021, an EU official said on Thursday (17 September).

The production of two of Belgium’s most famous products, beer and fries, could be severely affected by the effects of climate change in the country, a new report commissioned by the National Climate Commission warned on Thursday (17 September). According...

The protests in Belarus have been organised using Telegram, an encrypted social media app able to sidestep internet bans. With the biggest channels now followed by millions of subscribers, the few people managing them are wielding unprecedented, and largely unchecked, power.