European affairs ministers and their counterparts from EU candidate countries started talks on Tuesday (30 April) on how to strengthen the rule of law both within the bloc and in countries seeking to join it.

The European Commission is investigating whether Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, might have violated the DSA in its handling of misinformation.

Healthy, biodiverse forests provide a variety of ecosystem services such as improving air quality, helping to regulate global rainfall patterns, and mitigating the risks of climate change, as they can store large amounts of carbon

The spread of H5NI, otherwise known as bird flu, in cattle and mammals in the United States, has raised concerns among European stakeholders, but the European Union says they are well prepared. 

European bridges over maritime harbours are not likely to collapse should they be hit by seagoing vessels, according to several large European port authorities who Euractiv contacted following the March collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the US city of Baltimore.

Politicians from 22 EU countries, as well as the Agriculture Commissioner, are supporting Austria's calls to delay the anti-deforestation law.

A Russian missile attack on an educational institution in a popular seafront park in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa on Monday (29 April) killed at least five people and injured 32, local officials said.

Police moved in to clear dozens of protesters who had set up tents in a courtyard at the Sorbonne University in Paris on Monday (29 April) to protest against the war in Gaza, students there said.

The debris from a missile that landed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on 2 January was from a North Korean Hwasong-11 series ballistic missile, United Nations sanctions monitors told a Security Council committee in a report seen by Reuters on Monday (29 April).

The European Commission said Monday (29 April) it would raise an estimated €900 million by selling some of its buildings as it seeks to shrink its office space by a quarter.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Berlin rejecting Macron’s Sorbonne pitch on ECB reform, Sánchez's resignation scare paying off in Spain, according to polls, and so much more.

European and Arab foreign ministers met in the Saudi capital on Monday (29 April) to discuss how to join forces on advancing a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The single market is Europe’s industrial strategy and the right tool for the prosperity and security of our continent. On the basis of the Letta report, liberals call on EU political forces to agree on an action plan for competitiveness, writes Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann.

Burkina Faso has suspended a swathe of international news organisations in recent days for airing accusations of an army massacre of civilians, a move sparking concern on Monday (29 April).

The DMA mandates data mobility from platforms to third parties in B2B and B2C contexts, aiming to balance competition and data protection interests. However, the specifics of data portability under DMA Article 6(11) and their practical implications remain unclear.

Germany's far-right AfD party, plagued by scandals in recent months, is falling behind in the polls and is now neck-and-neck with Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD), with both parties on 16 seats, according to the latest Europe Elects projections of June's EU election results for Euractiv.

The first debate for the upcoming European election exposed the weakness of the lead candidate system, with low viewing figures and low-profile candidates casting a shadow on the process, experts said.

Poland hosting nuclear weapons could be dangerous for the country, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Szejna (Left/S&D) said, commenting on President Andrzej Duda's recent statement that Poland could do so.

The Party of European Socialists lead candidate Nicolas Schmit is fuming over Commission President and centre-right EPP party lead candidate Ursula von der Leyen, who left the door open to collaboration with the far right in the European Parliament after the elections.

Credit rating agency Moody’s is ready to look into the potential credit score implications of the European Investment Bank's expected expansion into a broader range of defence and military assets, Euractiv understands.