EURACTIV's Agenda

of all European Affairs Events, conferences, presentations and workshops.

EURACTIV News

Subscribe to EURACTIV News feed EURACTIV News
News & EU policy from Europe, for Europe
Updated: 21 min 40 sec ago

EU parliament slams crackdown on dissent in COP29 host Azerbaijan

Fri, 2024-10-25 04:43
Ruled with an iron fist by President Ilham Aliyev since 2003, Azerbaijan is accused of stifling dissent by persecuting political opponents, detaining activists and suffocating dependent media.
Categories: EurActiv

Moldova and Georgia: how domestic struggles threaten EU dreams

Fri, 2024-10-25 04:20
What is the future of Moldova and Georgia's European dreams?
Categories: EurActiv

Scandal plagues Swedish hospital, 33 women given unnecessary hysterectomies 

Fri, 2024-10-25 00:02
As many as 33 women in Sweden had their uteruses unnecessarily removed after Uppsala University Hospital wrongly diagnosed them as being at risk of uterine cancer in 2023 and early 2024. An investigation has been launched.
Categories: EurActiv

Slovak healthcare crisis, 2400 doctors threaten to quit on 1 November

Thu, 2024-10-24 23:53
Healthcare workers remain dissatisfied with Slovakia's current fiscal consolidation plan, despite the new Health Minister Šaško's €100 million concession. The unions refuse to move, taking a tougher stance in negotiations.
Categories: EurActiv

Access to health: profound divide remains between Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe

Thu, 2024-10-24 16:14
Central and Eastern European countries allocate 50% less to health financing compared to their Western European counterparts.
Categories: EurActiv

France eyes tighter partnership with Morocco on return migration

Thu, 2024-10-24 16:01
The Elysée confirmed the issue of migration would be at the very centre of discussions during Emmanuel Macron's State visit in Morocco.
Categories: EurActiv

EU leaders to call for swift presentation of defence funding options

Thu, 2024-10-24 15:53
Several options, all somewhat controversial, have been suggested including Eurobonds or the post-pandemic recovery fund.
Categories: EurActiv

Over €900 million pledged for Lebanon as French ceasefire calls fall on deaf ears

Thu, 2024-10-24 15:29
Unable to bring the fighting to an end, Macron also focused on condemning attacks by Iranian-backed Hezbollah and the Israeli-led offensive in Lebanon.
Categories: EurActiv

The EU’s transatlantic afterthought 

Thu, 2024-10-24 15:25
As one senior parliamentary source told Euractiv: “With Trump, it will be quick and painful. With Harris, it will be slow – and painful”. 
Categories: EurActiv

Council’s draft Competitiveness Deal sets research and innovation target at 4% of GDP

Thu, 2024-10-24 14:58
Member states will "commit to meet a 4% GDP expenditure target in research and innovation by [2030]," the draft reads.
Categories: EurActiv

The Brief – What if the EU would part of BRICS?

Thu, 2024-10-24 14:55
It may be hard to imagine that the EU, solidly anchored in the G7, would one day want to join the would-be alternative grouping known as BRICS.
Categories: EurActiv

Italy-Albania deal ‘will work’ regardless of legal challenges, Meloni says

Thu, 2024-10-24 12:45
The Italian prime minister said "all European countries supporting us understand" the potential of similar deals in managing migration at EU level.
Categories: EurActiv

MEPs seek solutions on Russia’s shadow oil tankers

Thu, 2024-10-24 12:37
591 shadow tankers are in operation, and responsible for transporting up to 70% of Russian oil by sea, an S&D Global study found.
Categories: EurActiv

French health minister in favour of taxing sweetened drinks and food products

Thu, 2024-10-24 12:20
"I am in favour of action on sugars. It is poisoning us," Darrieussecq told French senators.
Categories: EurActiv

EU Parliament awards Sakharov freedom prize to Venezuelan opposition leaders

Thu, 2024-10-24 12:02
The choice of winners was thanks to an alliance between centre-right and far-right groups.
Categories: EurActiv

Competitiveness Deal draft calls on EU leaders to ‘urgently’ integrate capital, telecoms and energy markets

Thu, 2024-10-24 11:28
The document, seen by Euractiv, echoes Enrico Letta and Mario Draghi's proposals.
Categories: EurActiv

Ireland data protection authority fines LinkedIn €310 million

Thu, 2024-10-24 10:16
Six years after France's data protection authority received a complaint for LinkedIn's data processing practices for targeted advertising, the lead authority on the case slapped a fine on the firm.
Categories: EurActiv

EUDR Delay: Necessary or a Step Back? [Promoted content]

Thu, 2024-10-24 10:00
In response to mounting pressure from companies and governments, the European Commission has proposed a 12-month delay of its landmark deforestation regulation, the EUDR. This proposal, still awaiting approval from the EU Council and the European Parliament, has sparked mixed reactions.
Categories: EurActiv

European leaders meet to re-energise offshore wind power

Thu, 2024-10-24 09:59
Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Norway and Ireland -- and the European Commission are expected to reach an agreement on the installation of some 20,000 wind turbines in the North Sea by 2050.
Categories: EurActiv

Top EU Court upholds annulment of Intel antitrust decision by European Commission

Thu, 2024-10-24 08:24
"The Court of Justice upholds the annulment [of] an abuse of a dominant position on the part of Intel ," reads the ECJ press release.
Categories: EurActiv

Pages

Events of the week

Jobs

Metal Packaging Europe
EU Advocacy and Communications Intern
Giz Gmbh (Deutsche Gesellschaft FüR Internationale Zusammenarbeit)
Communications Specialist (m/f/d)- Euroclima
Bureau of International Recycling
PR/Communications Officer
logos Public Affairs
Senior Communications Consultant
MNI - Medical Nutrition Industry International
Project Manager (Part-time)
FIEC (European Construction Industry Federation)
Policy Officer for the Economic and Legal Affairs Commission
European DIGITAL SME Alliance
Junior Communications Officer