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Mounting concerns for the health of workers in the agri-food sector have prompted stakeholders to call for stronger measures for their protection.

Some 65% of the students who are in Erasmus exchange programmes but subject to confinement measures do not yet know if they will keep or return the grant that was disbursed for their studies, while 7% said they will not get any, according to a report by the Erasmus Students Network (ESN).

For several decades now, and ever since the early 1980s, palm oil has been called out as a problem for a number of different reasons, write Dr Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali and Dr Kalyana Sundram.

Drivers still face a litany of obstacles as they go about their business during the virus outbreak, including massive traffic jams and lack of access to proper rest facilities. The head of the International Road Transport Union, Umberto de Pretto calls for more care.

Environmentally-minded investor groups have commended Anglo-Dutch oil and gas major Shell for committing to cut emissions to net-zero by 2050 or even sooner.

The countries of Central and Eastern Europe do not have the huge human resources of China, but they do have plenty of advantages that must be used after the end of the pandemic, said Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev in an exclusive interview with EURACTIV Bulgaria.

Coronavirus state aid for Austrian Airlines should support efforts to cut aviation’s carbon footprint, the Alpine republic’s environment minister said on Thursday (16 April), as the government negotiates with the firm’s parent company, Lufthansa.

Germany’s auto industry association VDA on Thursday (16 April)  joined a chorus of demands from auto industry executives and politicians calling for more incentives to revive demand for low emission vehicles in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Regardless of the COVID-19 crisis, the registration and processing of asylum applications must continue and member states must comply with asylum law, the European Commission warned in a recommendation published on Thursday (16 April).

Germans are more satisfied with their government than they have been for a long time, thanks to its coronavirus response. It is making life increasingly difficult for the opposition. EURACTIV Germany reports. 

The socio-economic crisis brought on by the coronavirus in Spain has prompted political wranglings over a national pact for the country’s reconstruction. EURACTIV's partner EFE reports.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Romania lifting its export ban on cereals, other grains and food products, Germany's states not agreeing with the government on when lockdown measures should be eased, and so much more.

Finland's Finance Ministry forecast the economy on Thursday (16 April) to contract by at least 5.5% in 2020, and said it could shrink by as much as 12% if restrictions related to the coronavirus were to last for six months.

Budget revenues in the first half of April were only a third of those generated this time last year, Croatian Finance Minister Zdravko Marić told parliament, announcing that the ministry expects even worse results in May and June. Marić expressed...

Belgium now has the highest death rate from COVID-19 in the European Union but officials insist it is because they have been totally transparent with the data.

Poland decided on Thursday (16 April) to ease some of its restrictions starting Monday (20 April). As a first step, the government will lift its ban on entering forests, increase the number of people in shops, and make it possible...

Ireland is to quadruple its financial contributions to the World Health Organisation (WHO), Deputy Prime Minister Simon Coveney has announced.  The move comes after US President Donald Trump announced earlier this week that his country would halt contributions to WHO...

Finland is examining ways to change the personal identity code and the management of identity guaranteed by the State with the aim of creating a national operating model to identify people in government information systems. The model would also change...

After the crisis, when there will be the need for an economic recovery policy, a government with a parliamentary majority will be urgently needed, Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès (MR) told LN24. Read also: Belgium extends COVID-19 lockdown until 3 May,...

The forests in Europe that can be considered “old growth” – and therefore declared protected areas – depends on the definition, says Petri Sarvamaa. “And that’s where the political fight begins,” he told EURACTIV in an interview. Petri Sarvamaa is...