Coming generations will most likely associate German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's cabinet with his Zeitenwende - a term he used to describe the major turning point that the war in Ukraine has triggered. One year on, however, the term seems to have degraded into a mere buzzword without much meaning.

Major car-producing nations are proving increasingly reluctant to accept Brussels’ legislative proposals to rein in emissions from road transport, worried about the economic toll on car producers and consumers alike.

The European Commission has issued a rare revision of its initial findings in a competition inquiry looking at Apple's App Store practices, dropping half of the original charges. 

Germany will abstain in the final vote on the EU's de-facto ban on new petrol or diesel cars as of 2035 unless the EU Commission proposes how new combustion engine cars can be registered if they run exclusively on e-fuels.

Having agreed on the contents of an EU agreement for normalising their relations, Serbia and Kosovo must urgently find a compromise on its implementation. This will entail Pristina accepting the establishment of the Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities without any undue delay, writes Ian Bancroft.

Despite efforts to encourage the uptake of integrated pest management (IPM) techniques and reduce the risks associated with the use of pesticides, it has struggled to take off in Romania.

The Swedish presidency of the EU Council has circulated a new compromise text, obtained by EURACTIV, touching upon the relation with other EU laws, the notifying authorities, enforcement and penalties. The Cyber Resilience Act is a legislative proposal to introduce...

The European Commission will present “targeted” proposals by mid-March to overhaul the EU’s electricity market, the bloc’s energy chief said on Monday (27 February), adding that the reform will focus on long-term power contracts for industry to mitigate price volatility....

Data from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) suggests that in 2022, global greenhouse emissions increased[1]. Reducing carbon footprints, however big or small these footprints might be, has never been so important. While consumers are keen to improve their actions in...

The number of farms implementing integrated pest management (IPM) in Italy has skyrocketed over the past few years. EURACTIV Italy spoke with Donato Rotundo from farmers' association Confagricoltura to learn more about the impact this has had and how this success can be built upon.

The ban on social scoring has been extended to private companies, regulatory sandboxes could be used to demonstrate compliance, and the AI Office’s role has been downsized in a whopping new set of compromise amendments to the upcoming AI Act....

Join this EURACTIV Virtual Conference to discuss what circularity actually means and how a fair definition and practice, satisfying both consumers and industry, can be reached. Questions to be addressed include: - What is a circular product? Can consumers play a role in the understanding and defining of 'circularity'? And how can we define terms such as greenwashing, downcycling, high-quality recycling? - Can the Commission’s PPWR proposal ensure that the food and beverage industry can fully close the loop on their packaging? - Does the PPWR do enough to enable each sector to close the loop on the packaging they put on the market?

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Belgian FM meeting with her Iranian counterpart over a Belgian detainee, Vučić talking about Kosovo's independence and European proposal, and so much more.

Opening the door to hybrid heat pumps and hydrogen boilers will impact consumers, and make it more difficult for them to transition to clean heating while increasing energy costs, argues Monique Goyens. 

The country is entitled to draw some €2.27 billion from the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) in the 2021-27 period, Croatia’s Labor Minister Marin Piletic said on Monday. Piletic’s announcement came after Piletic and Prime Minister, Andrej Plenkovic, met with...

Leaders of Kosovo and Serbia have given mixed reactions following the high-level meeting in Brussels on Monday, designed to move forward with the normalisation of relations by agreeing on an EU-backed proposal. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić spoke to reporters from...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Central Asia Tuesday (28 February) to meet officials from all five former Soviet republics following the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Belgium’s justice authorities will decide on Tuesday whether the appeals to get released by jailed EU lawmakers Eva Kaili and Marc Tarabella as part of the Qatargate scandal will be accepted. The Belgian authorities recently rejected again the two MEPs’...

The European Commission has expressed its concern regarding the independence of Greece’s justice system after a EURACTIV report revealed that there was an attempt to block an audit of an independent authority as part of the ongoing wiretapping scandal investigation....

The increasingly defiant president of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Serb half, secessionist Milorad Dodik, brushed aside a decree by the country’s top international envoy on Monday and said a property law it sought to suspend “will remain in force.” The High Representative, German...