Early drafts of the Commission's 2025 work programme spring few surprises – with competitiveness the order of the day.

An internal EPP document seen by Euractiv reveals a proposal to expand Frontex's mandate and push for the return regulation to be introduced in the first quarter of next year.

“Time’s running out,” said the new defence commissioner before outlining his ambitious plan to make the EU ready for possible Russian aggression.

"This decision may pave the way for similar approaches in future EU rulings," said Innocenzo Genna.

Following the fall of Barnier's government, farming union FNSEA now relies solely on Macron to oppose the EU-Mercosur deal.

Sources have claimed that the disease has killed between 76 and 143 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

TikTok has been ordered to preserve documents and data related to elections in the EU for a period of about four months, ending in March 2025.

"We have the chance to create a market of 700 million people. The largest trade and investment partnership the world," says Ursula von der Leyen.

In order to keep up with China and the US in the geo-economic race, for Europe there is no way around clean tech. Could Trump even be an opportunity here?

The NGO deems 50% of all salmon for sale in German supermarkets was farmed in Norway.

New data shows that the media sector is one of the sectors most affected by artificial intelligence (AI), with 90 per cent using AI for news production. GenAI technologies present new opportunities for newsrooms - but risks too.

EU’s latest EV tariffs to protect its auto industry from a flood of cheap Chinese imports do not apply to hybrid cars.

"Lease aggregator [has] significant bargaining power over the towerco," Vantage Towers told the Commission.

Analysts think that the EU faces an additional annual climate investment gap of between €340-477 billion. We argue that part of this gap can be filled by levering more private money into the transition through better EU financial instrument design and deployment.

The milestone was hailed as a coming-of-age for cryptocurrencies as investors bet on a friendly US administration to cement crypto's place in financial markets.

The US State Department said that Washington was "deeply concerned" by the detention of veteran human rights advocate Rufat Safarov.

Russian elites reportedly sought to exploit digital assets — in particular US dollar-backed stablecoins — to evade US and international sanctions.

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“We need to send a clear response to Russia: we are not worried."

A parliamentary source told Euractiv Poland that the political groups have agreed on the new committee's mandate.