Associations of European startups called for more integration of the EU's single market to better support innovators in a political declaration.

The current EU Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights, Luxembourg's Nicolas Schmit, is touring EU member states to rally support for national socialist parties and strengthen his party's standing ahead of June's EU elections.

The public debate in Sweden is dominated by a far-right troll factory scandal, while the centre-right coalition is trying to dilute its cooperation with the far-right in a broader collaboration with the Social Democrats in the European Parliament.

Europe must create high-road debate around competitiveness and improve workers’ conditions rather than just discussing cutting costs, says Judith Kirton-Darling, General Secretary at trade union IndustriAll Europe.

Accidents in Europe’s leather sector have decreased in recent years, while new methodologies to assess its lifecycle carbon footprint is helping the industry in its green transition.

Belgium and the Netherlands are pushing for a need-driven research model prioritising society's requirements, with an emphasis on addressing unmet medical needs, Belgium is viewed as setting the stage for future presidencies.

Bulgaria’s updated position paper on the revision of the EU's pharmaceutical legislation underlines the importance of national competence and focuses on access to new medicines for citizens of poorer countries.

EU socialists' lead candidate Nicolas Schmit could be open to outsourcing asylum procedures outside the EU if these are “under European control”, he told Euractiv in an interview, while criticising Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen for not involving all her commissioners in the EU's third-country migration deals. 

The reduction of the maximum level allowed for mycotoxins in cereals, substances produced by fungi that can harm human health if consumed in sufficient quantities, could cost European cereal producers dearly, warned French European Parliament (MEP) Anne Sander.

UK politician Nigel Farage has claimed that immigration would decide the UK election. Polling has the relatively pro-immigration Labour party far ahead, but recent YouGov data appears to back him up.

Warsaw will have to pay €68 billion in EU fines over the continued operation of the Turow coal mine despite court orders to the contrary, the EU's lower court found, although Poland may seek to escalate the issue.

With horrifying images coming out of Gaza, Europeans have started looking for the right tools to exert pressure on Israel, but they might not be able to bridge their fundamental internal differences.

A new compromise text of the draft law on online child sexual abuse material (CSAM), dated 28 May and seen by Euractiv, excludes audio communications from the scope and tries to strike a new balance between encryption and fighting CSAM.

Less than two months before NATO's 75th-anniversary summit in Washington, the top job race nomination continues amid political bargaining, with outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte the strongest contender by far.

Investigators raided the home and offices of an EU parliamentary staffer, on Wednesday (29 May), as Belgium probes claims that Russia paid far-right lawmakers -- including Germany's embattled Maximilian Krah -- to spread Kremlin propaganda.

EU member states said on Wednesday (29 May) they are hopeful to agree on the negotiation frameworks for Ukraine and Moldova in the first week of June, though some objections from Hungary remain.

BERLIN, May 29 (Reuters) - Germany's cabinet approved on Wednesday a draft bill to allow carbon dioxide capture and storage for some industrial sectors as Europe's biggest economy aims to become carbon neutral by 2045 while keeping heavy industries, government sources said.

Carbon capture and storage, or CCS, removes from the atmosphere carbon dioxide produced by industrial processes or captures it at the point of emission and stores it underground.

In Germany, its use has been restricted, but as Europe's largest CO2 polluter is likely to miss its climate goals, Berlin has reconsidered, estimating the need to capture between 34 million and 73 million tons per year by 2045.

Carbon intensive industries which cannot be electrified, apart from coal-fired power plants, will be able to use the technology, according to the new bill, which will also create a legal framework to develop a CO2 pipeline infrastructure.

Companies will be allowed to store CO2 in the bed of the North Sea or inland if the federal states allow it on their territory. Geologically, Germany has around 1.5 billion to 8.3 billion tons of CO2 storage capacity under its part of the North Sea and could deposit up to 20 million tons annually.

Under the plans, CO2 exports will be allowed but Berlin will need to ratify a clause in the London Protocol international treaty on cross-border waste exports, which was amended in 2009, to allow the transport of CO2 for sub-seabed storage. (Reporting by Riham Alkousaa and Andreas Rinke Editing by Madeline Chambers)

The 4G telecoms patents owner Sun Patents Trust has "summoned" Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi to a Paris court, according to a Wednesday (29 May) press release, and may be looking for witness testimony from the European telecommunications standardisation body. 

EU energy ministers are set to meet for the final time this term on 30 May, to discuss Russian energy and the Green Deal, but many countries are tabling 'Any Other Business' points, intending to influence the EU's post-election agenda.

DG CNECT is reorganising one if its units to handle the implementation of the AI Act, with Lucilla Sioli leading the department.