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France's Agriculture Minister Didier Guillaume has multiplied calls for assistance from Brussels to deal with the effects of the ongoing health crisis. In other words, the milk, meat, fruit and vegetable sectors cannot wait much longer. EURACTIV France reports.

“I do not see a problem for the unemployed to engage in agriculture” the Labour and Pension System Minister, Josip Aladrović, said in an interview with the Croatian newspaper Večernji List, where he called for a more efficient labour policy...

In light of the disruptive impact of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the European Commission is assessing the need to delay a series of important actions, including in the field of digital affairs, a draft copy of the executive's working programme seen by EURACTIV reveals.

As the world's largest single market, the EU is an influential leader for setting global sustainability reporting standards. While we’ve seen significant growth in the number of organisations reporting sustainability impacts, more needs to be done to improve the disclosures, writes Tim Mohin.

There is no safer place than our home. The first thing we think about when we feel the need to escape our daily life is to simply relax in our house, our realm. There is no such place as our own, the one we have first imagined, then set up, refined and lived in.

The first draft programme of Germany's EU Presidency contains mainly empty wording. There are no concrete goals for the Green Deal, with new initiatives only in the case of hydrogen. The coronavirus pandemic is to blame. EURACTIV Germany reports.

The European Parliament and Council should work with the Commission to consider how best to implement a potential legal clampdown on fake news online, the EU's Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders has said.

The European Parliament’s largest political groups back the issuing of 'recovery bonds' guaranteed by the EU budget to help tackle the economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis, according to document seen by EURACTIV.com.

Poland will gradually lift lockdown measures imposed to contain the new coronavirus from Sunday, the government said on Tuesday (14 April) as the nation prepares for a presidential election on 10 May.

Amazon was asked by a French court to restrict its deliveries to essential goods only until an assessment of the epidemic risks can be carried out.

Spain’s one-month lockdown milestone was met with foreboding news of an economic recession from the International Monetary Fund but authorities insisted the urgent focus remained on saving lives.

US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel, a Democrat, and New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez, the most senior Democrat of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, have asked the US administration to pursue its diplomatic support to resolve the conflict...

The International Monetary Fund expects the Romanian economy to contract by 5% in 2020, a much harsher prediction than its ”sister” organisation, the World Bank, made just last week. However, the IMF estimates the recession will not last, as the...

While still a couple of weeks away from the projected peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Romanian authorities have decided that the Holy Week is a proper time to ease the restrictions imposed on free movement. People will still be...

The Czech government will allow stores and restaurants to reopen gradually over the next two months to reawaken an economy paralysed by the coronavirus lockdown, officials said on Tuesday (14 April). In March, the nation of 10.7 million people imposed...

Deadlines have to be respected, says the European Commission in response to calls by industry to lift an EU-wide ban on some single-use plastic items because of health and hygiene concerns raised during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has said hundreds of thousands of Bulgarians are returning to the country from abroad because of the COVID-19 spread in Western Europe and the US. However, a EURACTIV.bg survey based on official data suggests that this...

Czech government has published a COVID-19 exit plan that would gradually ease measures in five phases between 20 April and 8 June. From 20 April, farmers markets and craftsmen can open their businesses under strict hygiene conditions. On 27 April,...

Government plans to present a plan on how to open certain businesses next Monday (20 April). Prime Minister Igor Matovič made it clear that the decision will be based on the input from epidemiologists, not economists. According to the President...

The government should publish an exit strategy from the coronavirus lockdown this week, opposition Labour party leader Keir Starmer has demanded. In a latter to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who is deputising for Boris Johnson while the Prime Minister recovers...