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The European Union’s proposed €750 billion recovery plan from the coronavirus crisis will need to acknowledge national differences on clean energy in order to succeed, a senior EU official has said.

The current crisis can be a great turning point in the history of the European Union. However, we must remember that the recovery fund should correspond with all real economic problems of the member states, with their specificity, expectations and current needs, writes Mateusz Morawiecki.

The homes we live in are by far the world’s biggest asset class, representing worth €150 trillion, or 20 times the amount of gold ever mined. As such, they are too big to fail, writes Brook Riley.

Who actually pulls the levers of EU power is a perennial issue of debate and confusion, especially when you burst the Brussels bubble and venture out into the real world. For the people behind the curtain, it is a perfect arrangement.

The European Commission opened two parallel investigations into Apple on Tuesday (16 June) to see whether the US tech giant has excluded rivals and imposed unfair conditions on 'app' developers via its Apple Store and its payment service Apple Pay.

In an unprecedented move, a group of German Green MPs, including one Green EU lawmaker, have backed the use of gene editing technologies in a new paper, diverging from the party's general position and saying genetic engineering could play a key role in improving sustainability.

Grant Convey sums up the existential threat facing the UK pub industry in eight words: “We can’t survive with the two-metre rule”. And many of his colleagues agree.

The German 'Corona-Warn-App' is here, and the government gave it the hard sell when ministers presented it on Tuesday (16 June), EURACTIV Germany reports.

On the eve of the European Commission's Vaccines Strategy launch, four EU countries clinched a deal with Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca for the supply of a potential COVID-19 vaccine in a bid to keep production in Europe.

Digitalisation does not stop at diplomacy. Embassies are increasingly communicating via Twitter, foreign ministries are evaluating data, and in the coronavirus crisis, heads of state are negotiating via video conference. This could have consequences for global politics. EURACTIV Germany reports.

British airline EasyJet said it had pushed back the delivery of 24 aircraft to between 2025 and 2027 and secured additional flexibility on orders from planemaker Airbus as part of its planning for a smaller travel market.

Work on eight multi-billion-euro rail, road and water links is behind schedule and is significantly over budget, according to the EU’s auditors. A new report warns that some of the flagship projects might not be as economically viable as first claimed.

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Empty squares, deserted beaches and cancelled trips - the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown Europe’s tourism industry into chaos. Will we be able to go on holidays this summer? Will Europe’s travel industry survive the pandemic? And what is the EU doing in all this?

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Air France vowing to reduce its domestic flights, Italian PM Conte urging the opposition to cooperate to ensure Italy recovers from the crisis, and so much more.

The “Let’s Defend History” Declaration, calling for an active fight against revisionist tendencies in the region and for common, multiperspective historiography, has been released in Belgrade. The document has warned that the states created after the breakdown of the former...

The coronavirus outbreak has prompted a significant increase in news consumption but the economic turmoil is forcing news businesses to accelerate their move to digital, The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism said.

Following an informal video conference of EU energy ministers, Croatian Energy and Environment Minister Tomislav Coric said on Monday (15 June) said that Croatia had initiated the signing of a memorandum of understanding for the implementation of the Declaration on...

There is still no agreement between the government and opposition on what next steps to take as the state of alert – which followed the state of emergency declared due to the COVID-19 pandemic – is in its final days....

EU foreign minister met on Monday (15 June) with their US counterpart, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, amid a widening transatlantic rift over Israel and requests from some member states to step up cooperation on Libya.