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The European Commission has proposed boosting the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) with an extra €20 billion to support greening the EU's farming sector, using the recently unveiled Farm to Fork (F2F) strategy as a vehicle.

Some 17.1% of employed young people across the globe have stopped working since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and those who have remained in work have seen their working hours reduced by 23%, according to a report from the International Labour Organization (ILO), published on Wednesday (27 May).

The European Commission is considering bringing back Europe-wide plans for a digital services tax in order to finance the bloc's €750 billion recovery fund, the executive said on Wednesday (27 May).

The European Commission’s €750 billion recovery fund could be covered financially by new sources of revenue, which include extending the EU’s carbon market to the aviation and shipping sectors, the bloc’s executive confirmed on Wednesday (27 May).

European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, proposed on Wednesday (27 May) an unprecedented stimulus of €750 billion, mostly through non-refundable grants, with governments having a crucial role in deciding how the money will be spent.

The European Union's proposed €750 billion fund to help the bloc recover from the coronavirus crisis will have green strings attached, with 25% of all funding set aside for climate action, the European Commission has said.

The European Commission will propose later on Wednesday (27 May) an unprecedented fiscal stimulus of €750 billion, mostly made up of grants that do not need to be reimbursed, to overcome the deepest recession in EU history.

In the UK and in many countries in Central and Eastern Europe leaders have shown lack of respect for the lockdown measures – the EURACTIV network looked into how some prime ministers and presidents have conducted themselves through the pandemic so far.

The European Commission led a highly successful[1] round of funding for diagnostics, treatments and vaccines against coronavirus. These resources must be used in the most efficient way possible. The best way is via cross-border, multi-sector and multi-disciplinary research collaboration based on existing networks, to reach a scale of partnerships and coordination that has yet to be achieved during the COVID-19 crisis.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about France's €8 billion plan to make the car industry more 'clean', Lega chief Matteo Salvini not going to trial for last year's alleged 'kidnapping' of 161 migrants, and so much more.

Since the start of the year, the publishers of Alo, Kurir, Srpski Telegraf and Informer dailies have been allocated nearly RSD26 million in co-financing competitions, even though in the second half of 2019, the Press Council had reported 3,900 breaches...

The Romanian government has asked state-owned energy company Nuclearelectrica to end the partnership with China General Nuclear Power Corporation for the building of two new reactors at the country’s sole nuclear power plant in Cernavoda. Nuclearelectrica, which already operates two...

Zlata Hrvoj Šipek was sworn in as the new chief state prosecutor in front of parliament speaker Gordan Jandroković, announcing that she, as the first woman in Croatian history to be appointed to the post, will prove her office to...

Former Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini (Smer-SD, member of PES) has openly called on Robert Fico, the prime minister for ten years before him, to step down as party leader. Pellegrini replaced Fico as prime minister after the government reshuffle after...

Poland could contribute a great deal towards the €500 billion EU recovery plan proposed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, according to two independent calculations prepared by Bloomberg and the European Centre for Economic Research in...

A vast fiscal fightback to the coronavirus crisis unleashed by eurozone governments could raise questions about capitals' ability to repay debts and revive the threat of countries exiting the single currency, the European Central Bank warned Tuesday (26 May).

President Vladimir Putin set a new date of 24 June for a grand Red Square military parade he was forced to postpone over a coronavirus outbreak that is still triggering thousands of new infections each day.

The Strasbourg court found on Tuesday (26 May) that Hungary has violated freedom of expression under the European Convention on Human Rights when parliamentary speaker and Fidesz MP László Kövér indefinitely banned a number of journalists from the parliament building...

“A bill calling on the government to end the state of danger will be submitted to parliament today,” Justice Minister Judit Varga wrote on social media yesterday (26 May). “With the adoption of the act, the state of danger is...

Former Interior Minister and Lega chief Matteo Salvini will not be sent to trial for the alleged ‘kidnapping’ of 161 migrants in August 2019 after the Senate’s immunity panel voted against lifting Salvini’s immunity yesterday (26 May) with 13 votes...