The latest agreement on the platform work directive brings less legal clarity than the status quo, and fails to give platforms and workers alike harmonised rules and protections across the EU's single market, Tomas Prouza writes for Euractiv.

The "Les Survivants" website, which was behind an anti-abortion campaign on self-service bicycles in Paris last year, has been closed down, Paris City Council said in a press release on Tuesday 13 February.

The European Parliament's Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee on Tuesday (13 February) adopted new rules to ensure safety and protect children from harmful chemicals present in toys.

The transportation committee of the European Parliament is set to confirm a position supporting longer and heavier trucks on roads Wednesday (14 February), according to EU lawmaker Isabel Garcia Munoz with the centre-left S&D group.

To reverse bad ratings at home, German liberals have taken the fight for their causes to the EU level, seeking to raise their visibility and distance themselves from Germany's floundering coalition government.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday (13 February) ahead of her trip to Israel that she is concerned about Tel Aviv's looming military offensive in the Palestinian city of Rafah, striking a more critical tone towards the country than before.

This week, the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee, LIBE, will vote on the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum. Hope Barker and Sonja Grabowsky explain what is at stake.

The conservative Spanish People's Party (Partido Popular - EPP) sought on Tuesday (13 February) to quell the fallout caused by media reports that its conservative leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo would be willing to grant conditional pardons to several Catalan separatist leaders.

The much-delayed reform of the EU’s fiscal rules agreed between the European Parliament and Council over the weekend will hamper the bloc’s ability to make critical investments in green technology and Europe’s defence industry, experts interviewed by Euractiv said.

France will put on hold the rollout of its national plant protection reduction plan and may adopt an EU measurement indicator to measure a molecule toxicity factor despite criticism from NGOs.

Christian symbols could feature prominently on the one- and two-euro coins that will enter circulation after Bulgaria joins the eurozone, according to a proposal yet to be agreed at the EU level, where some countries have opposed similar attempts in the past.

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Every year on New Year’s Eve, Germans watch a sketch with the catchphrase “the same procedure as last year” — probably to remind each other that, no matter what happens, some things just stay the same.

The Democratic-led US Senate moved towards the final passage of a $95.34 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan on Monday (12 February), amid growing doubts about the legislation's fate in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Czech EU minister calling Trump's NATO remarks a likely election bluff, Milei’s trip to Italy, and so much more.

Kyiv urged Warsaw on Monday (12 February) to "hold to account" Polish farmers for stopping three trucks at a border crossing between Poland and Ukraine and spilling the Ukrainian grain they were carrying.

In June 2024, European citizens will go to the polls to elect new Members of the European Parliament. This event is the first of a series of institutional changes which will mark the start of a new five-year mandate for the European Institutions.

Former US President Donald Trump’s comment on not defending NATO members who do not invest enough in defence can be mostly attributed to the US’s heated election campaign, according to politicians and analysts who spoke with Euractiv, with some adding that these comments fall in line with his contempt for NATO.

Romania’s deep fake bill leans more towards the Chinese model than the European one; several NGOs said, which, after being debated in the Chamber of Deputies on Monday, was sent back to the specialised committees.

Bulgaria’s largest far-right and pro-Russian party, Vazrazhdane, is showing signs of crisis ahead of June’s EU elections, as evidenced by a drop in the polls and recent exits, including that of one of the party’s most prominent figures.