Belgium is throwing a last-ditch attempt to get the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) over the finish line in a vote on Wednesday (28 February) despite tenacious reservations from key member states, including Germany and Italy.

France’s government announced it will hold a parliamentary debate on the situation in Ukraine, with President Emmanuel Macron under heavy fire after he claimed on Monday (26 February) that no options - including sending troops on the ground - should be excluded in ensuring Ukraine’s victory against Russia.

Several EU capitals, including Berlin, Warsaw, and Madrid, dismissed on Tuesday (27 February) remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron, who had suggested that a future deployment of Western troops in Ukraine should not be ultimately "ruled out". 

Despite Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s attempts to tame Catalonia's independence movement, its President Pere Aragonès told Euractiv that his ultimate goal is still for the Socialists to yield and hold a self-determination referendum.

EU member states do not seem to consider as a priority the Belgian EU Council Presidency's compromise proposal to revise the EU's Energy Taxation Directive, meaning it may not be finalised before the EU elections in June.

On 18 March 2016, Russian dissident Alexei Navalny participated in a live TV debate with Vladimir Pozner, one of Russia’s most famous journalists, on the issue of media censorship.

The European Parliament approved with an overwhelming majority a law protecting journalists and human rights advocates from abusive legal proceedings designed to stifle freedom of speech, marking the end of a six-year push to get the law across the line.

Fruit and vegetables in the EU are increasingly contaminated with toxic PFAS - the so-called ‘forever chemicals' that the Commission dropped plans to ban last year -  a study by the European Pesticides Action Network (PAN Europe) has found.

Fisheries ministers reiterated the importance of protecting the EU from imports of illegally caught fish, calling on third countries to adopt the digital catch certification system, which will become compulsory for EU national authorities in 2026.

A coalition of centre-right, far-right and national conservative EU lawmakers have failed to vote down the EU’s controversial nature restoration law amid a surge of farmers’ protests and European elections looming.

This year's election for NATO's new chief differs from past ones and calls for a bold symbolic decision to elect a secretary general from Eastern Europe, writes Orhan Dragaš.

The EU's Satellite Centre (SatCen), responsible for analysing satellite images from crisis zones, is stretched for resources and cannot meet all the requests unless EU countries redefine its priorities and provide it with new technologies, its director, Sorin Ducaru, told Euractiv.

In the past five years, we've witnessed the Green Deal's (r)evolution. Landmark legislation has been passed, priorities have been established, commitments agreed and ambitious emissions targets set. This month's 2040 CO2 emission reduction goal was the most recent example of our collective engagement. The next legislature will have to make sure that momentum is not lost.

Europe’s heat pump industry is flagging and has been forced to cut, or temporarily freeze, 3000 jobs following investments into production capacity that overshot demand growth.

In case you have a driving licence in your wallet, you might want to dedicate some attention to Strasbourg this week, where the European Parliament is having its plenary.

With EU elections looming in 2024, reforming social media recommender systems is crucial to protect democratic discourse and the future of democracy, write Jan Nicola Beyer and Sofia Calabrese.

The European Union is expected to agree to seize Russian profits generated in the bloc, a key step to backing Ukraine that stops short of calls to confiscate assets outright, a Greek envoy told AFP on Monday (26 February).

The United States on Monday (26 February) cautioned Pacific Islands nations against assistance from Chinese security forces after reports that Chinese police are working in the remote atoll nation of Kiribati, a neighbor of Hawaii.

Qatar's planned expansion of liquefied natural gas (LNG) production could see it control nearly 25% share of the global market by 2030 and squeeze out rival projects including in the United States where President Biden paused new export approvals, market experts say.

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