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Italy's agricultural minister Teresa Bellanova expressed an interest in developing sustainable biotechnology, in the light of a milestone agreement on next-gen biotech between farmers organisation Coldiretti and the Italian Society of Agricultural Genetics (SIGA).

The European Investment Bank decided to scrub its loan books of fossil fuels in 2019 but the lender's head of energy policy, Andrew McDowell, insists that there is more to the change of direction than ditching coal and gas.

While China has shown it needs a few days to build a hospital, infrastructure projects in Germany are making no progress. But politicians from the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) now want to change this. EURACTIV's partner WirtschaftsWoche reports.

NATO's public image in the US and France worsened sharply after US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron questioned the value of the Western alliance, according to a new Pew Research Center study published on Monday (10 February).

The EU wants a greater security role in the Pacific and will have no problem working with China in a region where Beijing has boosted its influence in recent years, the EU"s ambassador for the Pacific announced.

The key word in Azerbaijan in recent months appears to be modernisation, with opportunities being given to young and well-educated professionals, replacing a Soviet-time old guard.

CDU party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is stepping down. Announced during the CDU executive committee meeting on Monday morning (10 February), she has immediately renounced her Chancellor candidacy and intends to give up her position as CDU chair soon.

Britain plans to announce the location of up to 10 post-Brexit freeports by the end this year so they can begin operating in 2021, the government said on Sunday (9 February).

In today's edition of The Capitals, find out more about what's next for the German state of Thuringia following last week's election debacle, PNL's election masquerade in Bucharest, "an attack on the autonomy" of prosecutors in Portugal, and so much more.

The European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Olivér Várhelyi, met with President Milo Đukanović, who welcomed the efforts to consolidate Europe, as well as steps in the new accession methodology, saying “Montenegro is encouraging the ambition of the new Commission...

MEPS of a delegation of the Greens/EFA Group, who visited Croatia and BiH, said that all EU member states tacitly accept the violation of migrants’ rights at the Croatian border, yet German Green MEP Erik Marquardt added that the situation...

Several thousand Muslim believers gathered in Ljubljana on Friday (7 February) in the newly-constructed Islamic cultural centre, the first built in Slovenia after decades of requests, mostly with donations from abroad. While the main donor was Qatar, Muslims of Slovenia,...

Although PNL (EPP) leader Ludovic Orban has been designated by President Klaus Iohannis (also PNL) to form a new government after his cabinet was dismissed by parliament last week, his own PNL MPs are not voting in favour of the...

The Bulgarian parliament banned privately operated lotteries on Friday (7th of February) when controversial amendments to the Gambling Act were passed with no debate. Given that no transitional period has been envisaged, private lotteries will lose their licence as soon...

After signing into law the bill that limits judges’ freedoms and sanctions them for insubordination, Andrzej Duda was criticised by many judges and lawyers. In response to the president’s critical words about the so-called “judicial caste”, judges from the district...

All 22 ministers of Spain’s progressive coalition executive, forged by the socialist party (PSOE) and leftist Unidas Podemos (United We Can) met on Saturday in Quintos de Mora (Toledo,150 km south of Madrid) to showcase the newly appointed government’s “unity”,...

When Aengus O Snodaigh first sought election to Ireland's parliament in 1987, he and his Sinn Fein colleagues were banned from speaking on Irish TV and radio for their connection to IRA militants and were a decade away from their first seat.

Foreign Affairs Minister Luigi Di Maio said he has been closely following the case of 27-year-old Egyptian researcher studying in Italy, who was arrested in Cairo on Friday (7 February). Italian authorities want to avoid a repeat of the Gulio...

The Swedish government is proposing a legislative reform to enable faster decisions on providing and receiving military support between Sweden and Finland.  Although the two countries already have a framework for defence cooperation, the Swedish government’s proposal would give it...

In transposing the EU directive requiring member states to give each parent a minimum of four months’ parental leave, the Finnish government decided to take it one step further, announcing that each parent would have an equal quota of five...