National and EU experts are discussing new legally binding limits for acrylamide in food, EU sources told Euractiv, reopening a file that has sparked intense discussions.

EU leaders are expected to agree a package deal on the EU's top jobs and discuss the geostrategic and policy priorities for the coming years during a busy two-day summit on Thursday and Friday.

In response to the farmer protests that rocked Europe earlier this year, the governing parliamentary groups in Germany have agreed to introduce a relief package for the agriculture sector, amid dissatisfaction from farmers' organisation.

Euractiv has seen the Hungarian EU presidency's detailed plans for the Environment, Energy and Transport Council meetings in the second half of 2024, which outline when Budapest plans to advance individual existing legislative proposals, agree a COP29 position, and present its plans for geothermal energy.

Ahead of the meeting of EU heads of states and governments on Thursday and Friday (27-28 June), car manufacturers, energy companies and environmental NGOs have issued an “urgent” warning against revoking the EU’s 2035 de facto ban to sell new petrol and diesel cars.

As the European Union launches accession negotiations with Ukraine, Hungary's presidency of the EU Council from 1 July  to 31 December risks stalling the process, with minority rights being the key point of contention.

Kazakhstan’s innovation agenda aims to attract $150 billion of foreign investment in the next five years while doubling the country’s GDP. Kazakh President Tokayev is looking to Europe to realize the funding project.

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Professional associations have urged the Romanian government to retract the emergency ordinance requiring companies to implement the e-invoice system for transactions with final consumers from January 2025. 

Two MEPs from Bulgaria’s “We Continue the Change (PP)” party have been accepted as full members of the Renew Europe parliamentary group, the party announced on Wednesday.

The European Union and Ukraine are expected to sign a long-term security agreement when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits Brussels on Thursday (27 June), pledging to maintain military support and other aid to Kyiv as it fights off Russia’s invasion....

There are more microbes in the human body than there are stars in the Milky Way. So it's no surprise that the microbiome’s vital contribution to overall wellbeing has become an important topic for both scientists and consumers in recent years. But did you know that an individual’s gut microbiota is as unique as a fingerprint? And that specialty food ingredients such as fibre, probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics and postbiotics can support gut health?

Russian pranksters who often target people the Russian state is interested in released footage on Wednesday (26 June) of a video call with British Foreign Secretary David Cameron after tricking him into thinking he was speaking to a former Ukrainian president.

The leader of Bulgaria's largest party, GERB (EPP), and former premier, Boyko Borissov, said there was a grave threat to his life, suggesting it was due to his support for Ukraine.

João Cotrim de Figueiredo, a newly elected member of the European Parliament for Portugal's Liberal Initiative (IL), has been selected as one of the eight vice-presidents of Renew Europe, the assembly's liberal caucus, which now has 75 members, including two from Portugal, it was announced on Wednesday. 

The EU should establish a jointly funded ground defence line on Europe’s eastern border, according to a call from Poland and the three Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. “Extraordinary measures need to be employed as the EU’s external border...

The parliament spokesman of Spain’s centre-right Partido Popular (PP/EPP), Miguel Tellado, on Wednesday accused the ruling Socialist Party's (PSOE/S&D) lead candidate and Minister for Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, of having committed an alleged “fraud” by not taking her seat as an MEP.

After Julian Assange was released by a court on the remote US Pacific territory of Saipan on Wednesday, ending a 14-year legal battle, the WikiLeaks founder's lawyer first thanked Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for making the outcome possible.

A Brussels court rejected on Wednesday a Belgian lobbyist’s arguments opposing Ursula von der Leyen’s reappointment as head of the European Commission against the backdrop of accusations related to the controversial COVID vaccines contract negotiation with Pfizer.

Doubts on the European Commission's claim of an investment gap of at least €174 billion to meet Europe's 2030 connectivity targets have been shed in a document shared with Euractiv by lobby association CCIA Europe, representing Amazon, Google and Meta, among others.