European lawmakers called on the Commission to finally chart a roadmap to phase out animal tests and end ambiguity in the run-up to the much-awaited revision of the EU’s chemical framework.

The Planet League Cup brings together 77 professional football clubs, 12 County FAs, and hundreds of grassroots football clubs and schools, to engage fans on climate action, amongst them, Blackburn Rovers. The Planet League Cup is a unique sustainability tournament where...

The corrugated cardboard sector can achieve climate neutrality before 2050 if a set of enabling conditions are met, including a stable and predictable regulatory framework to steer investments in clean technologies, Eleni Despotou told EURACTIV in an interview.

2022 has been a year where high-profile international cases of violence against women, such as in Iran, Ukraine, and Afghanistan, have made headlines, but this is just part of a trend that permeates every aspect of society, according to United Nations (UN) officials interviewed by EURACTIV.

The United States, the European Union and 11 foreign ministers condemned the Taliban's decision to ban women from universities in Afghanistan, according to a joint statement issued on Wednesday (21 December).

A former Russian deputy prime minister and a pro-Moscow official were injured when Ukrainian forces shelled the eastern city of Donetsk on Wednesday (21 December), Russian news agencies said.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the October deadline for Bulgaria to join the Schengen club, Czechia deciding to keep border controls despite a drop in irregular flows, and so much more.

By accelerating the introduction of less harmful alternatives into the market, Europe will be able to phase out cigarettes quicker than the combustion engine, a senior expert from tobacco company Philip Morris International (PMI) told EURACTIV. Speaking on the sidelines...

Italy's ruling right-wing coalition is set to loosen hunting rules to deal with what the country's farming lobby calls an "invasion" of wild boars.

Protests took place in Tirana on Wednesday as the government inaugurated the works of the new National Theatre after the previous one was demolished following a two-year-long civil resistance and a lost case in the Constitutional Court. The protest against...

The European Union welcomed a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling Wednesday (21 December) against Colombia's imposition of duties on frozen fries from three EU countries.

While he has no plans to step down any time soon, the ruling Fidesz party has no shortage of successors, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told reporters at the once-yearly press conference in Budapest on Wednesday. EURACTIV’s media partner Telex...

Serbian President Aleksander Vucic has repeatedly stated that Belgrade and his government is not behind the blockades in north Kosovo, but on Wednesday, a comment to the media calls that into question. Blockades and barricades were set up on key...

Kosovo’s NATO-led international peacekeeping force KFOR said it is still considering the Serbia’s request to send its own military to the north of the country as exacerbated tensions enter the 12th day. Elections were set to be held on 18...

A Belgian court will decide on Thursday (22 December) whether to keep a Greek MEP in jail pending trial on corruption charges in a graft scandal linked to Qatar that has rocked the European Parliament.

Croatia's sole pipeline operator, JANAF, has signed a two-year contract with Serbia's NIS, majority owned by Russia's Gazprom, for transporting crude oil to Serbia, despite previously announcing it would halt such transport as the EU tightened restrictions on Russian oil imports.

Europe’s newest forum will need momentum to bring concrete results for member states, several scenarios for its future being possible, writes Sir Michael Leigh.

Bulgaria should join the visa-free Schengen area before October next year at the latest, according to the clear and concrete deadline President Rumen Radev was given at last week’s European Council meeting in Brussels, Justice Minister Krum Zarkov told Nova...

Year on year, Freedom House reports a continued decline in the strength of our democracies – a trend that has not been absent in Europe. The diagnosis is clear: our democratic values are under threat.

Putin said on 21 December gave his backing to a plan to boost the size of the armed forces by more than 30% as he said Moscow needed to learn from and fix the problems it had suffered in Ukraine.