Top EU officials have set out several competing initiatives to engage with industry players and international partners before Europe’s new AI rulebook starts to bite.

As the EU celebrates 30 years of its single market and freedom of movement, for construction workers, there are many problems associated with it, according to union boss Johan Lindholm.

According to trade unions, subcontracting tasks to posted workers may erode social standards and lead to the exploitation of workers, especially in the construction sector.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the European Commission have launched the global digital health certification network, building up on the EU digital COVID certificate's framework. 

India and the United States have concluded a roadmap for defence industry cooperation for the next few years, the two countries said on Monday (5 June), a landmark move expected to bolster New Delhi's defence manufacturing ambitions.

Despite the widespread belief that organ transplantation is a permanent solution, in most cases it is the start of another lifelong journey which needs to be carefully managed, as Professor Anna Forsberg found out through contact with patients and relatives.

Last week Belgium celebrated what appears to be a major diplomatic success: It managed to liberate after 455 days in jail its national Olivier Vandecasteele, an aid worker taken as hostage by Iran. The news made headlines and caused immense joy among Belgians, who had strongly mobilised to secure his release.

Signatories to the Code of Practice on Disinformation gathered in Brussels on Monday to discuss the revised initiative’s first year of progress in the wake of Twitter’s withdrawal from the voluntary programme last week. 

Belgium will ask Ukraine for clarification on reports that rifles made in Belgium had been used by pro-Ukrainian forces to fight Russian troops inside Russia's western border, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said on Monday (5 June).

EU lawmakers started examining the first compromise amendments on the new EU's product liability rules, but the most controversial topics are not on the agenda this week.

NATO is considering constructing an extra building and re-organising its current office space as it struggles to find room for newcomer Finland and any potential future members, EURACTIV has learnt.

Next year's EU elections loomed large as Europe’s liberal political family, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, gathered in Stockholm for their last annual Congress before the polls.

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As Germany's 2045 climate neutrality target looms, the government is launching a multi-billion euro 'Carbon Contracts for Difference' scheme to help bridge the investment gap between clean tech and polluting technologies.

Large household appliances will have to be transported almost entirely using reuseable packaging by 2030, according to the European Commission’s proposed packaging waste law, a move widely questioned by players in the supply chain.

Senior officials from about two dozen of the world's major intelligence agencies held a secret meeting on the fringes of the Shangri-La Dialogue security meeting in Singapore this weekend, five people told Reuters.

The future of fossil fuels – the leading source of planet-heating emissions – will face scrutiny at UN climate negotiations Monday (5 June) with an under-fire Emirati oil chief poised to step into the driver's seat.

This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team talks you through the controversies at a recent meeting of EU agriculture ministers, including how the EU’s agriculture Commissioner is increasingly prioritising Polish issues, and discusses the pushback to the EU’s nature restoration law, both...

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the German far-right AfD catching up with Chancelor Olaf Scholz's SPD party, Finland and the US agreeing to cooperate on 6G technologies, and so much more.

The fifth “Serbia against violence” protest was held on Saturday, exactly one month after the first of two mass shootings, with protestors demanding the replacements of both Interior Minister Bratislav Gašić and the head of national intelligence agency BIA, Aleksandar...