Forced to resign last year as Portuguese prime minister over a corruption scandal, Antonio Costa has been preliminarily chosen to head the European Council, but questions remain over his suitability for the post.

The EU’s CO2 tariff continues to provoke basic operational questions within the business community, even though companies are already subject to its formal reporting obligations.

The left and far-left programme for the French parliamentary elections gives pride of place to ecological measures, but many of these goals are based on already-existing European measures.

North Macedonia's lawmakers on Sunday (23 June) approved a new nationalist-dominated government of Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski, whose party won general elections in May banking on voters' anger at the slow pace of European Union integration.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday (23 June) that "intense" fighting against Hamas militants in the southern Gaza city of Rafah is nearly over, more than eight months into the devastating war.

A new far-right parliamentary group, allegedly named "The Sovereignists," is being formed in the European Parliament, led by Germany's AfD and aiming to gather various nationalist parties across Europe, according to multiple sources and media reports.

As European Union leaders gear up to finalise key appointments at their summit between 27 and 28 June, they will need to strike a delicate balance between competing candidates and pressing priorities.

Gunmen opened fire at a synagogue, an Orthodox church and a police post in attacks across two cities in Russia's North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Sunday (23 June), killing an Orthodox priest and multiple police officers, the region's head said.

The promise of halting migration to Europe has been at the heart of centre-right and far-right parties' election campaigns across the EU for June's elections. While the strategy worked and garnered wide public approval, voters are now expecting politicians to deliver and leaders are looking beyond the EU for solutions.

The Sino-EU PerMed project was created in 2020 to foster cooperation between Europe and China in personalised medicine. As the project prepares to wrap up, Euractiv spoke with Toscana Life Sciences' Gianni D'Errico, to discuss lessons learned and the road ahead.

New guidance issued by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on medical devices aims to streamline procedures, but integrating technologies into healthcare systems remains challenging, warns Polish industry.

A new wave of radioligand therapies is approaching. With healthcare systems and policymakers ill-equipped to handle the change, Belgium is launching an action plan.

The Polish Ministry of Health has implemented a daily system for monitoring the prescription and dispensing of opioids following increasing reports of fentanyl use in the country.

Concerns have been raised about the relative effectiveness of an increasing number of new medicines at the time of their market authorisation, a spokesperson for outgoing Dutch Medical Care Minister Pia Dijkstra told Euractiv.

Bulgaria continues to experience serious medicine supply problems, leading caretaker Health Minister Galya Kondeva to extend the export ban on antibiotics for children, insulin and blood sugar-lowering drugs until mid-July.

In this week's edition: a week of Ukraine support, final Belgrade-Pristina talks and NATO gearing up for its summit.

Carrying rainbow flags and dancing through the streets, thousands of Hungarians celebrated the annual Budapest Pride parade on Saturday (22 June) and vowed to keep protesting over the government's anti-LGBTQ+ policies.

Israel's military pounded Gaza on Saturday (22 June), a day after the International Committee of the Red Cross said 22 people were killed in shelling that damaged its office in the besieged Palestinian territory.

Apple is halting the rollout of three new features in the European Union, citing "regulatory uncertainties" caused by the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the tech giant announced on Friday (21 June).

At today’s (21 June) Health Council in Luxembourg twelve EU states put forward a paper calling for the Commission to initiate a debate on all nicotine-based products.