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Bulgaria remains the only country in the EU where the death rate from oncological diseases continues to rise. Patients face financial and organisational difficulties in accessing treatment, even though public funding has more than doubled in the past five years.
The New European Bauhaus, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s pet project, has failed spectacularly, and it is mostly her own fault.
The Belgian Presidency is gearing up to tackle the escalating issue of medicine shortages across Europe. Experts call for enhanced collaboration, solidarity, and transparency to combat this crisis effectively.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) voted in favour of the Right to Repair Directive on Tuesday (23 April), aimed at improving consumer access to repair services in order to reduce waste.
The Netherlands has been confronted with a new report showing inequalities in cancer screening between people with high and low incomes. Advocates are calling for public health to be embedded in all types of policies to reduce treatment disparities.
The European Parliament adopted the reform of the EU’s rules for national debt and deficits on Tuesday (23 April), despite fears from left-wing MEPs that it will lead to a new wave of austerity and prevent green investments.
Sports venues are notorious for their environmental impact. Issues with energy consumption, transport and waste management make these venues easy targets for individuals concerned about protecting the environment.
The criminalisation of forced marriage, illegal adoption, and exploitation of surrogacy have been added to the scope of a directive to prevent human trafficking and protect victims, as voted by the European Parliament on Tuesday (23 April).
A group of left-wing MEPs on Tuesday (23 April) failed to block the Commission’s proposal to relax farmers’ obligation to preserve grassland areas, which they claimed would pose environmental risks.
“We need to recall the distinction between a case or investigation and demonstrated irregularity, because [the] investigation might also conclude that there was no actual illegality,” Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis told MEPs on Monday (22 April).
Despite the European Commission’s hopes to launch a brand new European defence industry programme (EDIP) by 2025, the first rounds of negotiations and exchanges have pushed the deadline by at least six months, people involved in the discussions told Euractiv.
The European Union will support Lebanon, both financially and politically, until the end of 2027, Enlargement and Neighbourhood Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi said amid calls from the Middle East country for help in returning migrants to their country of origin.
In the last two decades in Europe, extreme heat-related mortality has increased by around 30%, according to a joint report by the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and the UN's World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) published on Tuesday (22 April).
After being accused of receiving money through a Russian propaganda network, German far-right lead candidate Maximilian Krah (AfD) is now involved in another scandal, with one of his staff members being detained for spying for China.
To reduce the carbon footprint of food, all stakeholders, including farmers, companies, and regulators, need to collaborate on solutions which drive demand towards sustainable products.
Ukraine's anti-corruption agency on Tuesday accused the country's agriculture minister of illegally appropriating state land worth more than $7 million between 2017 and 2021.
In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the German conservatives pushing for a national ban on Russian agriculture and food products, Italy's Democratic Party criticised for its EU election strategy, and so much more.
Senegal's new leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye has called for a "rethought" relationship with the EU during a visit by European Council President Charles Michel.
The centre-right European People’s Party’s attempt to block the adoption of an agreement to create an ethics body overseeing all of the EU institutions failed on Monday (22 April), despite concerns about the initiative becoming a “dangerous precedent.”
A Russian man was sentenced to five years' forced labour on Monday (22 April) for spreading "deliberately false information" about the army in a street interview with US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in which he talked about the war in Ukraine.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and former Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki, members of the right-wing ‘national-conservative’ camp, are planning a reshuffle of powers in the European Parliament in an attempt to gain enough leverage in the next term.
The Czech prosecutor has charged the former head of the Czech presidential office, Vratislav Mynář, with subsidy fraud and damaging the financial interests of the European Union.
Three Germans have been arrested on suspicion of working with the Chinese secret service to hand over technology that could be used for military purposes, potentially helping to strengthen China's navy, German officials said on Monday (22 April).
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