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French president Emmanuel Macron announced the project aiming at producing decarbonised nitrogenous fertilisers at the "Choose France" summit, an annual meeting of international business leaders at the Château de Versailles, on Monday 13 May.
Regards from Sofia, where the author of this Brief has witnessed the first days of the European election campaign and concluded the following: The number one election punching bag is the European Green Deal, and it's no different in many other EU countries.
France achieved a 22.2% share of renewable energy in its gross final energy consumption in 2023, according to the French Ecological Ministry figures from 7 May, but the trend is not sufficient for the country to reach a target of at least 44% renewable energy by 2030, as set by EU law.
North Macedonia’s election-winning nationalist VMRO-DPMNE party has sparked reactions across Europe and from its own EU family, the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), after President Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova refused to use the country’s official new name during her inauguration on Sunday (12 May).
The European Commission announced on Monday (13 May) the designation of Booking, the parent company of online travel giant Booking.com, as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and initiated a market investigation of social media platform X.
European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) do not intend to promise support for Ursula von der Leyen to continue as head of the European Commission, Czech MEP Alexandr Vondra told Euractiv Czechia in an exclusive interview.
Negotiations on a new pandemic treaty were meant to have concluded on Friday(10 May) ahead of the World Health Assembly (WHA), which starts on 27th May. However, agreement has remained out of reach.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israel lacked a "credible plan" to protect Palestinian civilians in Rafah and warned an Israeli attack could create an insurgency.
At least 15 people were killed and 20 injured on Sunday (12 May) when a section of a Russian apartment block collapsed after being struck by fragments of a Soviet-era missile, launched by Ukraine and shot down by Russia, Russian officials said.
In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Slovak parties largely being united against scrapping the EU veto, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urges more Ukrainian refugees in Germany to take up work, and so much more.
Russian President Vladimir Putin tapped a civilian economist as his surprise new defence minister on Sunday (12 May) in an attempt to gird Russia for economic war by trying to better utilise the defence budget and harness greater innovation to win in Ukraine.
North Macedonia's first woman president was inaugurated on Sunday (12 May), with the new nationalist leader angering Greece after a speech that did not acknowledge her country's new name.
Slovakia’s three main parliamentary parties reiterated their opposition to the possible abolition of the EU member states’ right of veto, saying it is crucial for Slovak sovereignty, candidates in the EU elections from the ruling Smer, Hlas and opposition SaS parties said in a televised debate on Sunday.
Lega leader and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini announced his party’s plans to reintroduce universal conscription at the recent Alpini parade in Vicenza, but Fratelli d’Italia Defence Minister Guido Crosetto -who was also present- voiced scepticism over the idea.
The leader of Poland’s conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, offered an alternative euro-to-zloty exchange rate as proof that Warsaw should not join the eurozone.
The leader of Catalonia’s socialist party (PSC) and former health minister, Salvador Illa, won Sunday’s elections, followed by the separatist JxCat formation of former regional president Carles Puigdemont and the left-wing pro-independence ERC party, but the socialist candidate is not certain to govern.
Hundreds of civil society organisations decried the recent reversal of EU sustainability policies for the bloc’s agrifood sector in an open letter published on May 13.
Malta’’s Prime Minister Robert Abela said both he and the country are proud of the work done by former deputy prime minister and minister for European Funds and the country’s EU commissioner candidate Chris Fearne who resigned after he was charged with defrauding the government through deceit and misappropriation of funds.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda appeared on track to secure his second and final term in office after the first round of voting on Sunday (12 May), following a campaign focusing on security concerns across the Baltics amid Russia's war against Ukraine.
The EU’s new carbon pricing scheme for road and heating fuels (ETS2) – set to be introduced across the bloc in 2027 – could lead to higher price hikes than initially thought, key lawmakers told Euractiv.
Croatia’s centre-right coalition agreement with the far-right has raised concerns from the Socialist and Greens, something the country's EU Commissioner Dubravka Šuica has downplayed, staying close to the line of Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
In an exclusive interview with Euractiv, French top candidate of La France insoumise (LFI, The Left) for the 2024 EU elections Manon Aubry, strongly critised a divided left in the face of a far-right at the top of the polls.
Fossil fuel intensive industries will soon have to pay for their carbon emissions, according to the new Europe-wide carbon emissions trading scheme (ETS2).
After a 12-year delay, France's first EPR has been greenlighted by the French nuclear safety authority as control procedures are set to speed up and simplify.
