Eurostat published its latest data on estimated life expectancy on Friday (3 May) and there is good news: We have gained an extra 0.9 years on 2022. 

EU countries and European institutions must do much more to share and centralise sensitive data, to better apprehend economic security risks and more efficiently protect supply chains from increasingly predacious geopolitical actors, writes Mathieu Duchâtel.

On World Press Freedom Day, Swedish Radio’s Director General and Vice President of the EBU, Cilla Benkö, notes the dire state of media freedom in Europe. She calls for the safety of journalists and respect for independent, trustworthy reporting. She warns that threats to media freedom go hand in hand with threats to democracy.

The EU-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) officially entered into force on 1 May. The pact has put an end to a four-year trade drought, since Vietnam's agreement in 2020, and the European Commission considers it a blueprint for future FTAs.

EU Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn said earlier this week that he had “a lot of sympathy” for the idea of making all of the bloc’s budget “performance-based”. But what did he actually mean by this?

The EU and NATO on Friday (3 May) condemned "malicious cyber activities" against Germany and Czechia, which they say were likely carried out by a Russian cyber espionage group.

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After German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to Beijing, France's Emmanuel Macron must make clear when President Xi visits Paris that de-risking is more than just 'made in Brussels', write Gesine Weber and Earl Wang.

On a visit to Saint-Nazaire on Thursday (May 2), Bruno Le Maire outlined the government's strategy for achieving 45 GW of offshore wind power while not leaving the European wind turbine industry. 

Like many Europeans, the Dutch feel no love for the European Union. This is a painful but understandable conclusion from a recent study by Ipsos. The EU needs to go to the doctor quickly and get a beating heart full of love because Brussels still seems cold and chilly to the European voter, writes Toine Manders.

Air France, its Dutch arm KLM, Norwegian and several Lufthansa Group airlines are among 20 carriers being investigated by the European Union for potential greenwashing, the companies said on Thursday (2 May).

EU countries can no longer ignore growing pressure from countries seeking a tougher line on China, nor can they ignore China’s efforts to replace Western firms in high-tech supply chains. Instead, they should hand over more powers to Brussels so the EU can protect its members from US export controls, write Sander Tordoir and Zach Meyers.

The Serbian parliament approved a coalition government which newly elected Prime Minister Miloš Vučević described as a "government of continuity" that will lead the Balkan country through geopolitical challenges and tensions with Kosovo.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Germany's CDU favour an alliance with the left to secure a second von der Leyen Commission, a Bulgarian court putting a stop to the country's largest EU-funded environmental project, and so much more.

This week, we are discussing the artificial intelligence liability directive (AILD), a key part of the EU's continuously evolving digital rulebook.

On Thursday Bulgaria's Supreme Administrative Court stopped the controversial project to build a refuse-derived fuel (RDF) waste incinerator in the centre of Sofia, which would have used EU funding to turn the capital's waste into heat and electricity.

The EU Prosecutor is doing a good job in investigating cases related to the rule of law as Greek citizens mistrust domestic justice and the conservative New Democracy government (EPP), Greece’s main opposition Syriza party (EU Left) leader Stefanos Kasselakis told Euractiv.com in an interview.

Slovakia has become increasingly embroiled in controversies over its relations with Russia, with the US recently extending Russia sanctions to a Slovak company, the Interior Ministry granting protection to a pro-Russian actor, and a parliament official giving an interview to Russian television and spreading pro-Kremlin narratives.

Poland will deport two men who were arrested in Poland in early April on suspicion of assaulting Russian opposition figure Leonid Volkov in Vilnius, the spokesperson for Lithuania’s prosecution service, Gintarė Vitkauskaite-Satkauskiene announced on Thursday.

Under mounting political pressure, US President Joe Biden broke his silence on campus unrest over the war in Gaza on Thursday (2 May), saying Americans have the right to demonstrate but not to unleash violence.