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EU-27 ministers in the Competitiveness Council have approved conclusions on the future governance of the European Research Area (ERA) as well as a pact on research and innovation (R&I).

Environmental education in EU schools and the migration crisis were high on the agenda of proposals suggested by citizens in the last two panels of the Conference on the Future of Europe.

Member states of the World Health Organisation have reached a tentative consensus to negotiate a future agreement on preventing pandemics, bridging the gap between sides led by the European Union and United States, diplomats said on Sunday (28 November).

Taiwan and Europe must work together to defend against authoritarianism and disinformation, President Tsai Ing-wen told visiting lawmakers from the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on Monday (29 November).

Berlin has a new strongman: the Greens’ co-chief and future vice chancellor Robert Habeck, whose pragmatism and track record in Schleswig-Holstein looks tailor-made to drive Germany’s renewable energy expansion.

World powers and Iran will gather in Vienna on Monday (29 November) to try to salvage their 2015 nuclear deal, but with Tehran sticking to its tough stance and Western powers increasingly frustrated, hopes of a breakthrough appear slim.

It is troubling to see that buildings have been given a relatively small space in the overall strategy to combat rising energy prices, writes Oliver Rapf.

A new, heavily mutated Covid-19 variant spread across the globe on Sunday (28 November), shutting borders and renewing curbs as the EU chief said governments faced a "race against time" to understand the strain.

There are reasons to be concerned about Russia’s amassing of troops near Ukraine, but there should be no doubt about NATO’s resolve to “defend all allies in the region”, the alliance’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview....

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday (28 November) denounced members of the EU’s electoral observation mission who monitored voting last weekend as "spies," and accused them of looking to "stain" the regional elections on their preliminary report.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about a majority of Finns now opposing fur farming, Slovak progressives pushing for a new system to compensate for the green transition, and so much more.

Albanians were the second most common nationality entering detention in the UK so far in 2021, accounting for 2920 cases, an increase of 32% from the previous year, reports Exit.al. Data published by the Home Office shows that Iranians were...

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said he would vote in favour of unification between Albanian and Kosovo, should there be a referendum on the matter, reports Exit.al. He made the comments during an intergovernmental meeting between Albania and Kosovo in...

After resigning as leader of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) following a crushing local election defeat, the party has accepted Prime Minister Zoran Zaev’s resignation. Following hours of negotiations and discussions, SDSM members voted to accept Zaev’s resignation...

Bosnia and Herzegovina does not have a problem with ethnicity, but with systemic corruption and the lack of credibility of political actors, which affect the functioning of state institutions, US Western Balkans special envoy Gabriel Escobar told Croatian news agency...

Several protests took place in Belgrade on Sunday, a day after mass protests and traffic blockades across the country over recently adopted laws on referendum and expropriation of property. On Sunday, thousands of people gathered in Belgrade for an environmental...

As the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths continues to rise in Croatia, the Catholic Archbishop, at last, called on believers to take the vaccine. In the last 24 hours, 3,339 coronavirus cases and 64 COVID-19 deaths have been registered...

The EU's border agency is to deploy a plane 24-hours-a-day over the Channel coast to monitor migrant crossings, France announced Sunday (28 November) after pushing its European partners for help in cracking down on people-smuggling.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a severe impact on health services across the EU and one public health condition that was sidelined, among others, was Alzheimer’s disease. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has spotted serious malfunctioning in dementia diagnosis and...

Pope Francis will visit Greece and a refugee camp in Lesbos from 4-5 December with Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou and EU Commissioner Margaritis Schinas. The Pope visited a refugee camp in Lesbos in April 2016 when the island was hit...

Travellers from several African countries will now have to show a COVID-19 negative test when entering Spain even if they have been fully vaccinated, although no cases of the Omicron variant have been detected in the country, EURACTIV’s partner EFE...

The days of Finland’s fur farming industry may well be numbered as a majority of Finns are turning against the practice, according to a recent poll that followed a damning Daily Mirror report.  In the aftermath of the article on...

Thousands of people gathered in Dublin on Saturday afternoon for a demonstration against COVID-19 restrictions. The group marched through the city before holding a rally. Speakers at the protest criticised the introduction of pandemic restrictions and argued that people were...

Mask wearing will be mandatory on public transport and in shops as part of a series of new measures to control the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID. Meanwhile, all travellers to the UK will have to take PCR...

After an emotional campaign and signs of radicalisation, a large majority of Swiss people voted in favour of a law providing the legal basis for using the COVID certificate in Switzerland. Moreover, a majority supported a call for better working...

Two weeks after the outbreak of violence, Overseas Minister Sébastian Lecornu travelled to Guadeloupe on Sunday (29 November). He will meet political, trade union, and economic leaders on Monday before continuing his trip to Martinique on Tuesday. The decision to...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had and will continue to have a negative impact on people suffering from dementia, Dr Natasha Azzopardi Muscat from the World Health Organisation (WHO) told EURACTIV in an interview. 

The coalition deal struck between three parties that will form Germany's next government is very much in line with France's own ambitions and priorities, including its vision of a more federal EU. EURACTIV France reports.

To ensure a proper assessment of the energy performance of windows, heat gains (g-value) have to be considered and balanced with heat losses (u-value), to both minimize heating demand and limit cooling needs. This is the energy balance of windows.

The liberal Progressive Slovakia party has proposed a new system of compensation to work towards the transition to a carbon-neutral economy and combat rising energy prices. The ‘climate cheque’ would give a certain amount of revenue from the European emission trading...

László Kövér, speaker of the Hungarian parliament, said in a speech to the country’s intelligence community in February 2020 that the opposition was the biggest threat to the country’s national security, Telex reported based on audiotapes leaked to Direkt36. Addressing the current and former...

A classified document which was made public reveals how Berlin is working with Washington to avoid US sanctions over the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

Czechia is the EU country most resilient to malign foreign influence while Bulgaria is the most vulnerable, the Globsec’s Vulnerability Index 2021 has found. “Czech resilience stems from the willingness of political elites to name Russian and Chinese interference as a...

North Macedonia will receive a softer tone from the future Bulgarian government, but an immediate lifting of its veto on European integration seems unlikely. On Saturday night, the parties of the future quadruple ruling coalition in Sofia agreed to maintain...

The state of Berlin will again be governed by the Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens, and the far-left Die Linke in a coalition agreement to be announced on Monday. The SPD had received historically few votes (21.4%) in the September...

“The goal of the treaty is to create a tight cooperation between Rome and Paris to share strategic goals for a more sovereign Europe,” the State Secretary of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers Vincenzo Amendola told EURACTIV Italy....

Journalists cautiously watched every word Croatia’s maverick President Zoran Milanović said at the press conference with visiting French President Emmanuel Macron last Thursday, afraid of another possible scandal. In the event, it passed smoothly. (Much more so than when he...

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said on Sunday (28 November) that the NATO military alliance needed to adjust its stance towards Belarus, whose military, he said, was becoming more integrated with Russian armed forces. Nauseda told a news conference with NATO...

In this week’s edition: Belarus-Ukraine fears, Dushanbe talks and stalling EU accession.

The President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, paid a rare official visit to Belgium on Thursday and Friday (25-26 November) in an effort to present his country as a reliable partner to the EU and open the door to new opportunities.

The row between the UK and France over boats carrying migrants in the Channel escalated on Friday (26 November) after France withdrew an invitation to Home Secretary Priti Patel to attend a summit in Calais and discuss how to respond to a migration crisis on the Channel.

Partially attributing his party’s crushing defeat in the recent municipal elections to the stalling EU accession negotiations, North Macedonia’s justice minister Bojan Marichikj told EURACTIV the government in Skopje would be more careful in the future. The stand-off between Bulgaria...

So, in the immortal words of the Looney Toons, that’s all folks - the CAP is officially a wrap.

The mood on migration in Europe has changed, perhaps decisively. Whether at Greece’s sea border in the Aegean, the Polish frontier with Belarus, or the Channel, barriers are going up, physical or otherwise, and the prevailing mood among politicians, with strong public support, is to keep people out.

The French government is mulling over the possibility of not backing the French colour-coded nutritional label Nutri-score as the new EU-wide food labelling scheme, according to Italy's agriculture minister.

As European governments urge their citizens to leave Ethiopia and critical diplomatic staff are expelled, the EU is becoming increasingly concerned that the escalating civil conflict there risks unravelling the country entirely.

France on Friday (26 November) scrapped planned talks with the UK about migrant crossings after an "unacceptable" letter from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, pushing relations to new lows after 27 people died in the Channel.

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here.    “France’s priority [during the EU presidency] will be to defend the Council’s priorities and to ensure that we are...

Teaching colonialism is a first step to tackle structural racism in Europe, but inequality will not be eradicated unless addressed in education as a whole, according to experts.