After delays, the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) party approved their manifesto for June's EU elections on Tuesday (23 April), but failed to agree on a Spitzenkandidat amid emerging internal splits.

A European space law would bring benefits that would ripple outside EU borders, Rodrigo da Costa, executive director at the EU Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) said in an interview with Euractiv.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's recent visit to China is an example of a “do-it-alone” foreign policy approach which can only benefit the Middle Kingdom.

Our current European Diplomacy architecture is defined by its hybrid nature – a mosaic of temporary personnel loans, which mainly big Member States can afford, and Commission clerks educated in 27 different cultures of external action. In order to become more united and gain autonomy, this diplomacy needs to adapt to current geopolitical challenges. One first step in this direction could be my proposal for the creation of the European Diplomatic Academy.

The European Central Bank should no longer focus solely on keeping inflation under control, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, urging it to take on a decarbonisation target as well.

On Wednesday (24 April), the European Parliament voted in favour of an amendment to the Plant Health Regulation, providing for the establishment of a European emergency team to prevent and contain the arrival of crop-damaging pests.

s decarbonisation compatible with industrial competitiveness? As the European elections approach fast, it will be one of the guiding questions of the upcoming EU institutional cycle.

Europe’s inland waterways are not ready for remote-controlled or autonomous vessels, according to inland navigation stakeholders who spoke to Euractiv at the Connecting Europe Days transportation conference in Brussels on April 2.

Cutting the EU regulatory burden could imply undercutting workers’ protections, Esther Lynch, head of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), warned in an interview with Euractiv.

French President Emmanuel Macron set out his vision for the future of Europe, placing energy, including nuclear, at the core of his approach, in a speech at Sorbonne University on Thursday (April 25).

European lawmakers clashed over the future of the Green Deal in a Parliament debate on Wednesday (24 April) while keeping one eye firmly on the EU elections in June.

As June's European elections draw nearer, espionage and foreign interference allegations have flooded the last plenary session of the European Parliament, but the outrage is likely to continue overshadowing public debate not only during the campaign, but after the dust settles. 

The European Parliament voted on Wednesday (24 April) to update the EU’s plans for its core transport networks, aiming to boost freight transport by train by setting higher technical standards for core rail routes.

More than a dozen local city officials co-authored a letter published in the FT Thursday (25 April) calling for more powers to impose road safety measures.

The European Parliament adopted new rules for use of blood, tissues and other substances of human origin (24 April). The so-called SoHO regulation (substances of human origin), is an important update of directives that are more than 20 years old. The focus is on safety and security of supply.

With farmers under the age of 40 accounting for only 11.9% of farm managers in the EU in 2020, the need to ensure generational renewal is becoming a key issue in the agricultural sector.

Today, the European Parliament votes on the Net-Zero Industry Act. What should have been Europe's first real response to the American Inflation Reduction Act has ended up in disappointment. Originally intended to boost the production of clean technologies, legislators in Parliament and Council have essentially turned it into a paper tiger, which does not address the actual challenges of industry.

Berlin and Paris, in a non-paper seen by Euractiv, argue to streamline the project management phase across capitals, lessen the administrative burden and avoid misuse of EU funds.

China is providing moorage for a US-sanctioned Russian cargo ship implicated in North Korean arms transfers to Russia, according to satellite images, as US concerns grow over Beijing's support for Moscow's war in Ukraine.

Columbia University students heckled House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday (24 April) as he visited the flashpoint of nationwide student demonstrations over the Israeli war in Gaza.