The European Commission said on Tuesday (30 January) it had launched surprise inspections of tyre companies in several EU countries after suspicions of price collusion.

Following the European Commission's proposal to revise the European Parliamentary committees' setup, most political groups prefer to keep the existing structure, a source from the European Parliament close to the matter told Euractiv.

In deflecting blame for farmers' malaise to Brussels, by pointing the finger at the EU's trade policy and 'red tape', the French government runs the risk of coming across as “hypocritical”, with little political gain.

While EU member states are expected to pledge continued military support to Ukraine this week, hurdles for a future funding scheme remain.

EU diplomats working in Brussels and abroad face staffing challenges, not receiving enough guidance from headquarters and struggle with intelligence and information sharing due to slow and opaque computer systems, according to a new report by the bloc's internal auditors.

The UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is expected to share details regarding the deal to restore power-sharing in Northern Ireland on Wednesday (31 January), though the deal will not bear any major changes to the Windsor Framework. 

As February's deadline to implement the Digital Services Act is fast approaching, Berlin is lagging in doing its homework for Europe's brand-new content moderation regulation.

France is going to regularise the situation of foreign doctors working in the country, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced during his general policy speech to the National Assembly on Tuesday (30 January).

Three Dutch research institutions have teamed up to create a steering group to collaborate more intensively in the field of animal research and animal-free innovations.

Participatory budgeting is a form of citizen participation in which citizens are involved in the process of deciding how public money is spent. Local people are often given a role in the scrutiny and monitoring of the process following the allocation of budgets.

A new wave of anti-capitalist leftists claiming to fight for the climate is taking it out on car tyres, risking further damage to a climate movement already gasping for air.

Ongoing farmers' protests can be partly attributed to the lack of consideration EU society and policymakers give to agriculture in general and geopolitical terms, Sebastien Abis, director of the agricultural group Club Demeter and research fellow at thinktank IRIS in France, told Euractiv.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that law enforcement agencies cannot indiscriminately store biometric and genetic data on those who committed criminal offences until their death, it said in a judgement published on Tuesday (30 January).

The climate crisis has provoked a raft of new technological solutions, from the ridiculous to the sublime. In defining its transport policy for the coming years, the next European Commission will need to push industry towards sustainable change.

A new government agency to "protect Hungary's sovereignty" which starts work Thursday (1 February) will have a "chilling effect" on the country's democracy, critics warn.

Key EU lawmakers have asked the European Commission to present a package to boost the climate-friendly transformation of Europe’s industrial sector while expressing concerns about social stability once climate measures start to bite.

France's controversial immigration law, criticised by opponents as restrictive and racist, is part of an underlying European trend marked by repressive migration policies, particularly concerning access to the right of asylum, an expert told Euractiv.

France's far-right Rassemblement National and far-left LFI are proposing to introduce a form of 'agricultural exception' - which, as is already the case for the arts, would exempt some agricultural products from the EU's free trade agreements with other countries.

The Bulgarian prosecutor's office on Tuesday (30 January) issued a European arrest warrant for six Russian spies suspected of terrorist attacks targeting Bulgarian arms factories and warehouses.

As it waits for the AI Act to take effect, Brussels should use its existing powers under competition law and the Digital Markets Act to challenge Big Tech’s growing influence over AI, writes Max von Thun.