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Spain’s parliament gave the government its approval on Wednesday (3 June) to extend, for the last time, the country’s ‘state of alarm’, meaning it would be in force until 21 June, EURACTIV’s media parter EFE reports. While Spain is one...

Swedish state epidemiologist and the face of the country’s pandemic strategy, Anders Tegnell, said that he is having second thoughts about how his country has been dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. But why the sudden change of heart? Sweden adopted...

Finland’s government agreed on a €5.5 billion addition to its budget on Tuesday (2 June) focusing on basic public services, education and green transport infrastructure. However, while the opposition deems some measures justifiable, it accused the government of reckless spending....

Greek media reported last night that approximately 6,000 migrants have gradually gathered at the Greek-Turkish border of Evros raising concerns in Athens that Ankara intends to repeat the events in late February, when it allowed thousands of migrants enter EU...

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Poland deciding to hold presidential elections on 28 June, Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell having second thoughts about his country's approach to the pandemic, and so much more.

A summit planned for September in Leipzig, Germany, between China and the European Union has been postponed because of the coronavirus, the German government said on Wednesday (3 June).

The European Commission insists that minimum wages ensuring workers across the EU earn a decent living are crucial to the coronavirus recovery and on Wednesday (3 June) launched a new round of consultations with social partners.

Twenty- European countries agreed on Wednesday (3 June) to work together on international rail transport and make it “an attractive alternative” over distances where it is currently not competitive.

The upcoming German EU presidency intends to take up an initiative for an EU framework for minimum income systems. Shannon Pfohman looks at what this should look like.

Most analysts expect the European Central Bank on Thursday (4 June) to beef up its emergency bond-buying scheme with hundreds of billions of euros to weather the coronavirus pandemic, providing governments with the breathing space to decide their own response.

Lawmakers in the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee (COMAGRI) turned down a section of an aid package proposed by the Commission for wine, fruit and vegetable producers, as it wasn't ambitious enough to cope with disruption caused by the pandemic.

The EU's Just Transition Fund must reward climate ambition and prioritise Europe’s coal communities where the cliff-edge is fast approaching, writes Niklas Nienaß.

Europe’s “green recovery” will be based on industrial leadership in the production of computers, batteries, electric vehicles, and wind turbines, writes Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou. Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou is a Greek Member of the European Parliament affiliated to the European People’s Party (EPP)....

Frans Timmermans and Fatih Birol put it loud and clear in these very pages last week: electrolysers to produce clean hydrogen are on the verge of becoming one of the decade’s breakout technologies. How do we make this a reality with the upcoming Hydrogen Strategy?

Norway's Supreme Court has upheld a decision by the Court of Appeal, ruling in favour of US tech giant Apple and their claim that an independent smartphone repairer had breached trademark rules by using cheaper repair parts. The decision has sparked an outcry from 'right to repair' activists.

During a press conference on the front steps of Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on Tuesday (2 June), Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked for his thoughts on US President Donald Trump’s call for military action against protesters. After painful...

Belgium is set to enter Phase 3 of deconfinement measures next week, with a reopening of hotels, bars and restaurants and eased tourism restrictions, the National Security Council (CNS) said on Wednesday (3 June).

Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government was on Wednesday (3 June) accused of acting too late and inflicting major damage on tourism after announcing that it will impose new quarantine requirements that force people arriving in the UK to self-isolate for 14 days from 8 June.

In an interview with EURACTIV's partner Le Journal de l'environnement, French socialist MEP Éric Andrieu (S&D) said that climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic make it necessary to put agriculture back at the heart of the debate and to change the agricultural model with targeted tools and resources.

It is increasingly evident that the European Commission has no intention to return to the tight cash-for-reform system to manage the recovery funds and that ‘hawkish’ member states could find it difficult to turn the proposed procedure into a troika-type oversight.