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The Italian government is preparing to renew the COVID-19 measures which are set to expire on Tuesday (14 July). Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza said he will be adopting “maximum caution” as the worldwide infection count reached a new peak...

Belgium’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has published an updated travel advice of colour-coded regions and countries in Europe. A dozen destinations have moved to the restricted part of the list. Anyone returning from a “red”- coded region must be quarantined...

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, said money from the EU’s long-term budget, as well as the EU Recovery Fund, should flow “into the right areas”, in an interview with German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Sunday (12 July). The two proposals...

Following riots that took place in Stuttgart on 21 June, which involved around 500 people and saw the police pelted with stones and glass, the city’s police chief announced that the department is considering a controversial new step in the...

 Tens of thousands of Bulgarians joined Sunday’s protests (12 July) in Sofia and other major cities, demanding the resignation of the government of Boyko Borissov (GERB, EPP) and Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev. Borissov announced on Friday night (10 July) that...

One of the main issues that the European Commission and EU member states will have to face in the coming years is how to handle innovation in Europe’s agricultural sector. The agricultural sector’s fight to mitigate climate change and improve...

Poland's right-wing President Andrzej Duda has probably won a second term in office in a tightly contested presidential election run-off held on Sunday (12 July), according to an official exit poll, although the results were still uncertain on Monday morning.

EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides told EURACTIV.com that the EU considers the potential role of new innovative techniques to mitigate climate change.

The UK unveiled plans on Sunday (12 July) to spend £705 million (€800m) on new infrastructure at its ports and border points to help smooth the flow of traffic after it leaves the EU single market on 31 December.

The EU said Sunday (12 June) that long-stalled talks between Serbia and Kosovo were "back on track" after a video meeting between the two leaders.

Greece's minister of foreign affairs will ask the EU on Monday (13 July) for a list of potential sanctions against Turkey in case Ankara violates Greek territory. However, EU sources said last week that dialogue should be prioritised in the face of Turkey's increasingly defiant behaviour.

The EU on Sunday (12 June) voiced "deep concern" at a UN move to close an access point for humanitarian aid to war-torn Syria.

The EU is forecasted to see a deep recession and increased poverty levels owing to COVID-19. Children are disproportionally affected by poverty. They must be front and centre of the decisions EU leaders take this week on the EU recovery plan and long-term budget.

There is something fittingly telling about the way the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre will play out on 11 July. For those who don't know, it's the biggest single atrocity on European soil since World War Two, where Bosnian Serb troops slaughtered 8,372 Muslim men and boys after overrunning the designated UN safe area in eastern Bosnia.

EU external and development spending is in line to be the biggest loser from next week’s crunch EU budget summit in Brussels. The blueprint outlined on Friday (10 July) by European Council President Charles Michel includes a reduction of €4.7 billion for the Neighbourhood Development and International Cooperation Instrument in the EU's next seven-year budget.

This week, the European Commission presented its hydrogen strategy. It sets out how to make clean hydrogen a viable solution for a climate-neutral economy and build a dynamic hydrogen value chain in Europe in the next five years, writes Kadri Simson.

European Council President, Charles Michel, proposed on Friday (10 July) to give more control to member states over the recovery funds to overcome Northern member states’s opposition to the ambitious stimulus.

European Council President Charles Michel's latest compromise proposal for the bloc's 2021-27 budget offers more power to member states in deciding to cut EU funding in case of rule of law problems, and instead promises more funding for values projects and the fight against disinformation.

The energy network of the future will be equipped with a wide variety of storage methods,  although constructing storage facilities, in itself, comes with many obstacles. The lack of a uniform concept on the matter is something which some MEPs want to change. EURACTIV Germany reports.

This week we mark 25 years since the Srebrenica genocide carried out against the Bosnian people during the break-up of Yugoslavia. On 11 July, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces led by General Ratko Mladic and Serbian paramilitary units systematically massacred 8,372 men and boys: each one a mother’s son, a father, husband or loved one, to those left behind. It must not be forgotten, writes Anna Fotyga.