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EU Commission for values and transparency, Věra Jourová, started her two-day visit to meet state officials in Poland yesterday (28 January). But will she be able to sway Polish authorities when it comes to the government’s controversial reforms? Jourová met...

The republican Sinn Féin party has pledged a series of ambitious reforms ahead of next week’s general election. The party’s election manifesto promises to abolish Universal Social Charge on income under €30,000, in addition to embarking on the largest social...

The Scottish parliament is set to vote in favour of a new referendum on independence on Wednesday (29 January), paving the way for a new constitutional showdown with Boris Johnson’s Conservative government in Westminster. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon wants to...

With 248 days of Belgium without a government since the federal elections and continued stalemate, the King has decided to give federal informants Georges-Louis Bouchez (MR) and Joachim Coens (CD&V) yet another chance to work a miracle until 4 February....

Hundreds of Americans and Japanese escaped the quarantined Chinese city at the centre of a coronavirus epidemic aboard charter flights on Wednesday (29 January), as the death toll soared to 132 and confirmed infections neared 6,000.

An initially peaceful demonstration of firefighters on Tuesday (28 January) ended in clashes between the firemen, many of which were armed, and the French reserve of the national police commonly known as CRS. Violent demonstrations have increased in recent weeks. ...

A 33-year-old man in Bavaria is suspected to have contracted the virus from a Chinese colleague in what is Germany’s first case of coronavirus, the health ministry confirmed yesterday (28 January). According to official reports, he is currently isolated in...

President Sauli Niinistö, who, on Holocaust Remembrance Day travelled to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, received news from Finland that the synagogue in Turku had been vandalised with large amounts of red paint, while small neo-nazi group ‘Towards Freedom’ (an offshoot...

Herbert Kickl, the General Secretary and key strategist of Austria’s far-right FPÖ met with Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in Berlin yesterday (28 January). At the joint press conference, honorary AfD-leader Alexander Gauland affirmed that the FPÖ was the...

In an interview with EURACTIV Germany, business IT specialist and former German Green candidate, Laura Sophie Dornheim, spoke about her quest against online hate, her own experience with it, as well as "crowbar" women's quotas in the tech sector.

Paris believes an age limit for receiving aid from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) would make room for young people in the farming sector. But Brussels does not see it that way, saying this would amount to age discrimination. EURACTIV France reports.

With the new European Green Deal, all actors across the food chain will need to adjust to new EU standards. But policymakers also have to make sure EU industry is protected against unfair competition, MEP Maria Spyraki told EURACTIV.com.

Cristian Bușoi, the chair of the European Parliament’s industry and energy committee, says MEPs are eager for a far-reaching strategy from the European Commission.

Brexit Day is to be set in stone Wednesday (29 January) when the European Parliament in Brussels casts a vote ratifying the terms of Britain's divorce deal from the EU.

Wuhan Zall, the football team of the Chinese city at the epicentre of the coronavirus, will arrive in Malága this Wednesday (29 January) for its preseason training.

A high-level ministerial conference in Berlin launched on Tuesday (28 January) the ‘Green Central Asia’ initiative, intended to support regional integration between the five Central Asian countries and Afghanistan. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who hosted the conference, stressed that...

French oil group Total is responsible for 1% of the world's CO2 emissions and failing to respect its so-called 'corporate duty of vigilance', according to a group of plaintiffs representing 14 local authorities and four NGOs who are bringing a case against the giant. EURACTIV France reports.

The end of freedom of movement is one of the most iconic changes heralded by the UK’s exit from the European Union this week. The days of EU nationals being able to able to move to the UK and find...

As the world pushes for stronger climate measures to stop the destruction of the Arctic, many countries are also keen to take advantage of the region's new opportunities in shipping, mining, drilling and security.

When Germany eventually closes its coal-fired power plants, millions of CO2 pollution credits will be flushed into the EU emissions trading system, threatening to send the EU carbon market crashing. EURACTIV Germany reports.