The European Commission will sign a strategic partnership with Australia on critical raw materials, a source familiar with the matter told Euractiv, as the EU continues its drive to secure access to these materials from sources other than China.

CO2SMOS, VIVALDI and CATCO2NVERS are EU-funded projects exploring ways to replace fossil-based carbon in chemicals with carbon emitted by installations processing biomass. Their recommendations? EU regulations must ensure that sustainable carbon is recognised as the easier, cheaper and necessary alternative.

Europe is heading into a new chapter of climate policy, paving the way for negative emissions also from the bioenergy sector, Renew Europe lawmaker Emma Wiesner told Euractiv in an interview.

“Prevention is very much about consumption. Consumption is about what is on the market. When you say market you say EU,” Belgian Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke told an even in Brussels on Tuesday.

Western sanctions and their effectiveness are one of the favourite topics of Russian propaganda, demonstrating both the importance for the Kremlin of managing this narrative and the real impact sanctions are having on the Russian economy.

Irrespective of whether the Commission’s nature restoration law proposal survives or falls, we need to learn how to talk to humans about nature protection - and fast.

Russian oil firms face delays of up to several months to be paid for crude and fuel as banks in China, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates become more wary of US secondary sanctions.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed the secretary of Ukraine's national security council and replaced him with the head of his foreign spy agency on Tuesday (26 March).

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Korčok’s victory likely not being enough to improve Czech ties with Slovakia, Bulgaria halving it’s coal-based electricity generation last year, and so much more.

The director of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), Alexander Bortnikov, said on Tuesday (26 February) that the US, Britain and Ukraine were behind the Moscow concert hall attack that killed at least 139 people on Friday.

The Initiative ‘Boosting Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing in the EU’ offers the promise, although not yet the commitment, for biotechnology in the EU at the scale and vision needed for global significance. EuropaBio looks inside and to the future.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's extradition to the United States from Britain was put on hold on Tuesday (26 March) after London's High Court said the United States must provide assurances he would not face the death penalty.

Ivan Korčok, the pro-EU candidate in Slovakia's presidential race and winner of the first round, has made his intentions to mend relations with Czechia clear, though experts believe it might not be enough due to diverging stances over Russia's war in Ukraine.

Belgium, on Sunday, will raise its minimum wage to €2029,88 per month, becoming the fifth out of 22 EU states that Eurostat records the minimum wage where the gross minimum salary exceeds €2,000 per month.

Michael Roth, head of the German Bundestag's Foreign Affairs Committee and one of Ukraine's most vocal supporters, has announced his departure from politics due to differences within his own party.

The vision of the Euclid space telescope has been restored following a delicate operation that successfully melted a thin layer of ice that had been clouding its sight, the European Space Agency announced on Tuesday (26 March).

Politicians from Romania's ruling coalition are proposing either a ban or "strict" regulation of TikTok, prompted by survey data suggesting a growing preference for the far-right among young people, who are particularly active on social media.

As all main EU political parties have placed Ukraine and defence at the fore of their EU elections campaign, the EU liberals chief and campaign leader, Valérie Hayer, visited Kyiv on Tuesday (26 March) to show support for Ukraine.

Bulgaria’s coal-fired power plants halved their electricity output last year, while solar farms increased production by 141% compared to the previous year, according to data the country’s Energy and Water Regulatory Commission sent to parliament.

Ukraine's daily electricity imports reached their highest this year on Tuesday (26 March) after a series of Russian missile strikes on critical infrastructure caused blackouts in many regions, the energy ministry said.