The EU is faced with a grid investment gap of €800 billion until 2030, finds a report commissioned by industry lobby-group ERT, who call for another power market revamp to help address the issue.

In this episode of our daily ‘Today in the EU’ podcast, we examine the latest scandal to affect Germany's right-wing populist AfD party.

Patients suffering from rare diseases across the EU, and their families, are struggling on the road to lifesaving and life-altering healthcare. The difficult patient Odyssey is warped by a postcode lottery.

EU lawmakers reached an agreement on the renewal of trade liberalisation measures with Ukraine on Monday (8 April), after member states reopened negotiations to reinforce safeguards against market distortions.

Expanding the number of places where smoking is prohibited, providing for a sharp increase in tobacco taxes, and putting vapers on the same footing as conventional smokers are among the main “deterrent” measures included in Spain’s new anti-smoking plan.

Six years ago, the Brief imagined the ethical challenge that killer robots, possessing, artificial intelligence and presumably looking like Terminator, would pose.

A future referendum on Catalonia's hypothetical independence from the rest of Spain “will cease to be unconstitutional and impossible”, Catalan president Pere Aragonès, of the separatist Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) formation, said on Monday (8 April).

Portugal became the eighth country to adopt the controversial front-of-pack labelling Nutriscore on Friday (5 April) after the European Commission failed to unveil a proposal for an EU-wide model.

As the 2024 expiration of the Russian gas transit contract via Ukraine approaches, the EU faces a pivotal choice, writes Sergiy Makogon.

The fate of democracy and Georgia's European future hangs in the balance yet again. The recent reintroduction of the foreign agent law by the ruling party Georgian Dream is an extremely worrisome crossroad in the nation's democratic path, writes Paata Gaprindashvili.

Over the past year, amid heightened global geopolitical tensions, the European Union has viewed its trade and economic cooperation with China as a "risk point", and the trend is intensifying

.The EU's operation in the Red Sea to protect commercial ships from attacks by Houthi rebels is showing results but remains stuck in a small area of operation due to a lack of ships and other assets, officials said on Monday (8 April).

A Delegated Regulation is threatening the EU fish processing industry and consumers. To avert foreseen risks, the Polish Association of Fish Processors urges MEPs to reject it at the plenary session of 10-11 April and call for consultation with EFSA.

The French think tank I4CE revealed on Friday (April 5) the first French's climate adaptation costs estimates. At European level, the subject is still struggling to gain acceptance.

On Wednesday, the European Parliament will vote to give its backing to the EU's Migration and Asylum Pact, along with other laws that reform the Union's asylum system. This will be the final step before the new rules can be put into effect, writes Fabienne Keller

Israel said on Sunday (7 April) it had withdrawn more soldiers from southern Gaza, leaving just one brigade, as it and Hamas sent teams to Egypt for fresh talks on a potential ceasefire in the six-month conflict.

Beijing's commerce minister dismissed as "groundless" US concerns that a surge of low-cost Chinese exports posed a risk to global markets, as Washington's Treasury chief on Monday (8 April) wrapped up a visit aimed in part at addressing the issue.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about experts warning that Bulgaria's medical system is under threat, a relatively unknown figure being chosen as Bulgaria's new caretaker foreign minister, and so much more.

Russia's nuclear power corporation, Rosatom, accused Ukraine's military of launching a series of attacks on the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station and the UN's nuclear watchdog called for such incidents to cease immediately.

Large amounts of climate-warming refrigerant gases from China and Turkey are being smuggled illegally into Europe, undermining a global pact to phase them out, a report by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) said on Monday (8 April).