Trade unions increasingly shared the necessity to improve conditions for businesses, Markus Beyrer, Director General of BusinessEurope, told Euractiv in an interview, as job losses in manufacturing spread across Europe.

To move ahead on the path to replace animal tests for ensuring safety of chemicals, we need progress in science, better knowledge and close collaboration between scientists, regulators, industry and other stakeholders.

Romania could soon deploy troops to safeguard Romanian citizens beyond its borders, according to draft provisions, which, if adopted, would amend the national defence law.

Protesting Polish farmers left the Agriculture Ministry building which they had occupied since Tuesday, frustrated that the government had not responded adequately to their demands, including the halting of Ukrainian grain and sugar transit through Poland.

More funding is needed to get the Czech initiative to purchase ammunition for Ukraine, which was launched in February and has so far been joined by both EU and non-EU countries off the ground, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský (Pirates, Greens/EFA) said on Wednesday. 

Italy will undoubtedly trigger the EU’s excessive deficit procedure (EDP), Italian Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti said on Wednesday as he ruled out taking up the post of commissioner following June’s EU elections.

In the complex and protracted negotiations on the EU-Mercosur trade agreement, “the ball is in the court” of the 27 member states, Paraguay’s Industry and Trade Minister Javier Giménez told Euractiv’s partner EFE in an interview, pointing to Europe’s strict environmental rules as the main obstacle to a swift agreement.

Petr Bystron, a senior member of Germany’s far-right AfD party and a top contender for a seat in the European Parliament after June’s elections, has been accused of receiving money from Russia, with his own party leaders now calling on him to clarify the allegations.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Wednesday (3 April) on Azerbaijan's leader to ease tensions that have flared again with Armenia, ahead of a US-EU bid to support Yerevan economically.

On the latest episode of our daily podcast Today in the EU, we’re looking at today’s NATO meeting in Brussels.

Estonian PM Kaja Kallas told Euractiv her advice for liberal ally Marie-Agnes Strack Zimmermann is “Be yourself, and speak for the values you’re fighting for,” as Strack Zimmermann begins her campaign as ALDE’s lead candidate for the June elections.

It’s time for the EU to step up and remove bottlenecks preventing fusion energy from its full realisation, at a time when private investments for the development of fusion energy have risen, said the European Commission's Righi Steele.

Research published in the journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology highlights diverging access to novel cancer treatments in the Visegrád Group of countries. Euractiv spoke with Petra Szilágyiová, co-author of the study.

Professor Peter Piot, Belgium’s special advisor to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on European and Global Health Security, has called antimicrobial resistance (AMR) a crisis already underway and gaining importance.

Poland's poor availability of biological and biosimilar medicines is under the microscope, with policymakers pushing for new accessibility measures to benefit patients in need of advanced therapies.

Slovakian obesity rates have been rising steadily for a decade, mirroring global and European trends. Approximately 60% of Slovaks are either overweight or obese, highlighting the need for effective new public health interventions.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday (3 April) confirmed that the military alliance's members will look into the organisation taking a greater coordination role in military aid deliveries to Ukraine, but stayed wary of giving way to a new fund.

French Senators blamed the government for the eight-months freeze by the European Commission of the legislative process on a digital bill, considering that the government failed to prepare the bill efficiently.

The EU and US are enticing developing countries into a partnership that looks to align measures on the supply of critical raw materials, a Commission official said on Wednesday (3 April). 

Eurozone inflation dropped from 2.6% in February to 2.4% in March: just 0.4 percentage points above the European Central Bank's target rate.