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Without a doubt, with its infrared light, visible light and UV light components sunlight is of central importance to all of us. However, over the last couple of years, an unjust demonization of the sun and to a similar extent of tanning beds has taken place, writes Torben König, Scientific Advisor of the European Sunlight Association (ESA).

Rock-bottom oil prices normally mean bad news for the environment - you can burn more of a cheap fuel - but the world has changed and the latest slump might catapult the EU Green Deal’s to new heights.

Plans for an EU-wide hydrogen alliance were confirmed on Tuesday (10 March) when the European Commission unveiled its new industrial strategy.

Despite the fact that there are fewer cases compared to other countries from Europe, last night, the minister of Interior of Romania announced many drastic measures for the public institutions, flights, road and rail transports to/from Italy. The measures were...

The European Commission agreed on Tuesday (10 March) to suspend rules that oblige airlines to fly empty ‘ghost flights’, as the EU tries to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the economy.

European parliamentarians hailed on Tuesday (10 March) the political agreement between Georgian ruling and opposition parties that promises to resolve the electoral reform conflict that resulted a series of protests in the country. 

With Michael Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren dropping out of the Democratic primaries, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden are the only Democrats front-runners left in this year's presidential race. But do Germans thinks they are more economically literate than Donald Trump? EURACTIV's partner WirtschaftsWoche reports.

For Giovanni Badiali, it is a day like any other. Adorned in the standard surgical attire, he enters the operating room and prepares his medial implements with the patient lying flat before him.

As the European Commission turns its attention to giving SMEs a helping hand, here is a true story about how patent trolls broke the back of one successful small European business.

Ensuring a swift transition to electric vehicles is one of the clearest ways for governments to make significant progress on emissions reductions, writes Helen Clarkson. However, governments risk holding it back, she adds. Helen Clarkson is the CEO of The...

EURACTIV takes a look at what has happened during the three years while the Commission’s proposal has been stuck in the legislative process. The Croatian Presidency is the latest member state with responsibility to resolve the ePrivacy Regulation conundrum. The...

Although Americans and Germans think transatlantic relations are in slightly better shape than last year, stark differences remain when it comes to defence spending and big power competition, a fresh poll by the US think tank Pew Research Center showed.

The Greek government has decided to pass legislation allowing using seized alcohol to produce antiseptics. The ministries of health, justice and economy have pushed forward a law making it possible to use seized or smuggled ethyl alcohol in order to...

Is the European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region still a role-model in the macro-regional cooperation framework? Marta Czarnecka-Gallas gives some answers.

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The EU should provide more funds to enable faster movement of military forces across Europe, defence ministers from four eastern European member states said on Tuesday (10 March), two weeks before the bloc starts a new round of divisive talks over the next seven-year budget.

The spread of the coronavirus is in its full swing with production contracting across the globe. It exposes the risks of the business model that we have pursued over the last decades, namely the increasing dependence on intermediate goods from China. Coupled with the impact of climate change and the digital revolution, it is time to rethink and devise more sustainable models.

The increasing failure of multilateralism to provide global solutions to global problems is alarming. Could the European political parties play a role in strengthening international rule-making? European political families have been the drivers of European integration for the past 60...

European policymakers should use a two-tier approach to define sustainable investments in order to smooth the bloc's transition to a low carbon economy, a group of industry experts has said.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Italy's lockdown due to the coronavirus, Austrian MEPs criticising EU Commission boss Ursula von der Leyen on day 100, EPP group chair Manfred Weber taking jabs at Czech PM Andrej Babiš, and so much more.