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The European Council and Commission are under pressure to make headway on rules to stamp out online terrorist content, the substance of which could provide a precedent for the upcoming Digital Services Act, an MEP involved with the matter told EURACTIV.

Formula One engineers from the championship-winning Mercedes team have helped develop a breathing aid that can keep coronavirus-infected patients out of intensive care. The device was given the green light by the UK health service in record time.

Banking authorities are calling on European banks to cut their bonuses for this year in order to reflect the impact of the coronavirus and dedicate more resources to the real economy.

Germany's energy transition or 'Energiewende', which came into force 20 years ago today, would not have been possible without the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG). As a number of questions still remain unanswered, EURACTIV Germany talked to one of its architects.

Amsterdam’s Lelystad airport - intended to serve as a spillover for Schiphol as of November - will not open its doors until the end of 2021 because of the coronavirus outbreak.

The European Commission will allow France to defer some aeronautical taxes up to two years in order to help embattled airlines, after Brussels decided on Tuesday (31 March) that the plan is in line with its new looser state aid rules.

Lille's football club, Losc, has committed to reaching the commitments of the UN-sponsored "Climate Neutral Now" initiative and is the first French club to do so. EURACTIV France reports.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced on Tuesday (31 March) the creation of a panel of 10 experts to determine NATO’s future after French President Emmanuel Macron declared last autumn that the alliance was experiencing “brain death”. The strategic shift comes...

Although coronavirus can survive on surfaces for a limited time, food safety regulations in EU member states ensure a high level of protection against contaminated food, said the chief of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Bernhard Url in an interview.

Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a scathing statement on Wednesday (1 April) seeking to belittle and ridicule North Macedonia's recent accession to NATO. 

Members of the conservative ‘Croatian Sovereign party’ proposed measures on Tuesday (31 March) to save agricultural production and family farms in Croatia, saying the coronavirus crisis could be a turning point for Croatian agriculture. Members warned that the current Government...

France has successfully managed to recruit 150,000 volunteers to help with harvesting and packing. This comes after the Ministry of Agriculture and the trade unions of the profession called on the unemployed to volunteer for seasonal harvests, particularly fruit harvests....

At a time when stricter measures, special checkpoints or additional police are used to keep Romani communities in isolation or quarantine, mostly in Eastern Europe, we must urge politicians to refrain from discriminatory measures and instead, invest in basic infrastructure to protect all from getting infected, writes MEP Romeo Franz.

A Russian military transport plane took off from an airfield outside Moscow early on Wednesday (1 April) and headed for the United States with a load of medical equipment and masks to help Washington fight coronavirus, Russian state TV reported.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about how the Czech government is planning to give the government and prime minister more power in times of crisis, Italian PM Conte urging the EU to show whether it really is a 'common house' and so much more.

the former Slovak foreign minister, Miroslav Lajcak, is expected to become the EU’s special representative for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and the Western Balkans, Radio Free Europe (RFE) has reported. According to a document seen by RFE, Lajcak will assume the...

Croatian Finance Minister Zdravko Marić has announced another set of government measures to mitigate the economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis by specifically focusing on liquidity and the preservation of jobs. Marić has said that 52,000 requests have been submitted...

Romania’s health system, which is already facing problems due to the lack of medical personnel, is further restrained as more and more doctors are becoming infected with the new coronavirus, while others have chosen to resign, citing lack of adequate...

In an interview with German TV channel ARD, Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte called on Europe to show "common house" and demonstrate it can respond to the epoch-making challenge of coronavirus.

On Tuesday (31 March), the coronavirus task force shared the age, sex and underlying health conditions of the 16 people who had died from coronavirus “in order to provide credible information to the general public and the press.” ”While we...