Russia's espionage trial of detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who denies charges of collecting secrets for the US CIA, will be held behind closed doors, the trial court said on Monday (16 June).

While many economists have long advocated introducing a 'climate dividend' to avoid social tensions caused by carbon pricing, a group around Nobel-prize winner Joseph Stiglitz questioned this approach in a paper released on Monday (17 June) in Nature Climate Change.

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Ukraine has not been able to reach an agreement with a group of bondholders over restructuring some $20 billion of international debt during formal talks, it said on Monday (17 June), raising the spectre that the war-torn country might slip into default.

Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP/EPP) opted against dissolving the government after environment minister Leonore Gewessler (Greens) voted in favour of the EU nature restoration law in spite of his party’s rejection of the initiative.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the six-member war cabinet, an Israeli official said on Monday (17 June), in a widely expected move following the departure from government of centrist former general Benny Gantz.

Countries in the Union will now have to respect legally binding targets regarding national efforts to restore degraded land and sea ecosystems in compliance with the newly endorsed Nature Restoration Law. Due to its politicized nature, the text risked falling through multiple times during the past few months.

European Union member state leaders were not able to seal a preliminary deal for a trio of top job positions for the next five years when they met on Monday, despite earlier hopes there could be a swift agreement.

Launching the Trans-Caspian Corridor Coordination Platform strengthens vital trade routes linking Central Asia to Europe. Euractiv spoke with the European Commission’s Henrik Hololei, Hors Classe Adviser, DG for International Partnerships, about the road ahead.

As EU leaders descended on Brussels on Monday (17 June) for an informal EU top job dinner that could see an early political deal on the issue, some asked for clarification as to the Portuguese top job candidate António Costa’s...

EU member states reached a common position on the bloc’s first law for soils during a meeting of the Environment Council (ENV) on Monday (17 June), granting countries greater flexibility in implementing the rules.

On Monday 17 June, The EU ministers of environment agreed on a common position aimed at revising the directive on food and textile waste, following the targets proposed by the Commission but falling short on the European Parliament ambition.

European environment ministers adopted their first formal position on the Green Claims Directive in Luxembourg on Monday (17 June), with environmental NGOs arguing that the text had been watered down.

Despite having only two leaders, the Conservatives, represented by Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and Czechia’s Petr Fiala, they aim to have a bigger say in the EU’s top jobs allocation, after their allied parties have won a large place in the European Parliament in last week’s election.

A proposed centralised agency to support the detection and removal of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) will also be assessing how to technically preserve privacy while detecting such content in text communications included in the law's scope, according to the latest compromise of the draft law to fight CSAM.

Spain will urge EU health ministers to support the transfer of patients in need of urgent medical care from Gaza to EU countries willing to offer their healthcare services, according to a leaked document seen by Euractiv.

The speech given by Minister Peng Gang at the Europe-China Business Summit in Brussels.

In psychology, frustration is an emotion arising from perceived obstacles to fulfilling one’s will or goal. In EU politics, frustration is today’s special.

Following validation by member states on Monday (17 June), the 'High Seas Treaty' for the protection of oceans now has the full support of the EU, but many countries across the world still need to ratify it.

The European  Commission said it was "not worried" by Beijing's announcement on Monday (17 June) of an anti-dumping investigation into the bloc's pork exports, in an escalation of trade tensions with the bloc.