Germany remains critical of further EU-level measures to steer irregular migration amid a unilateral crackdown at its borders but may be open to a European initiative to conduct asylum procedures outside the EU, insiders told Euractiv. 

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has pledged EU-funded aid to help repair the damage caused by recent floods as she visited the western Polish city of Wroclaw on Thursday.

The Portuguese Farmers' Confederation (CAP) has high expectations of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's choice for the new agriculture commissioner, Christophe Hansen, and is confident that he will pay attention to the sector, the group said on Thursday.

The European Commission will soon respond to the request of 20 member states, including Portugal, to postpone the deadline for submitting the medium-term structural budget plan until October, a source close to the process told Lusa on Thursday.

Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares on Thursday strongly denied that Madrid had forced Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia to sign a document recognising the victory of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in the recent elections, as a leading member of Spain's Partido Popular had previously claimed. 

Partido Popular leader Alberto Nùnez Feijòo met the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome and praised her migration policy, which focuses on stopping boats leaving Tunisia and Libya and setting up asylum application processing centres in Albania.

Regional elections in Brandenburg on Sunday could see Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats lose an election in the German state for the first time, with some questioning whether Scholz should run for the country’s chancellorship again.

Euractiv takes creative licence to imagine what a farewell speech by incoming Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera could look like.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has tasked her incoming transport commissioner with developing the hyperloop, but a recent test of the technology shows there is much to be done before it becomes the next high-speed transport mode.

There is a new trend rising in Europe, where more and more EU member states are deviating from the notion of one united Europe facing migration together, to individually looking for solutions.

The migration discussion has opened again for good in Europe with Germany preparing to step up the number of asylum seekers that it is sending back to first-line countries while Greece is planning to raise the issue at a summit next month.

Despite Ireland’s stellar biopharmaceutical success, the new president of the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association says industry and government must avoid complacency. With a general election in sight, investment in innovation and clinical trials are on the table.

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Preparations are now well underway for the elections for local councils and a third of the Senate on Friday and Saturday in Czechia, albeit under extremely difficult conditions in the flooded regions.

On Thursday 19 September 2024, the International Energy Agency, together with Ursula von der Leyen, presented a report on the immediate measures to be taken to strengthen Ukraine's energy security and help it cope with the coming winter.

The centre-right and the socialists in the European Parliament are at loggerheads over how to enforce the EU’s anti-deforestation law (EUDR), which will soon require companies to prove that EU-sold products – including foods – were not produced on deforested land.

A la guerre comme à la guerre. The new European Commission, as announced by its chief Ursula von der Leyen, shines with its strong ‘military wing’.

Respiratory diseases are increasingly exacerbated by climate change and worsening air pollution. This special report examines how technology and policy can improve respiratory health.

The European Diabetes Forum (EUDF), the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Europe, the Spanish Diabetes Federation (FEDE), the Parliamentarians for Diabetes Global Network (PDGN) and Sanofi co-organised the Early Detection Policy Forum to accelerate policy development for the early detection of Type 1 Diabetes (T1D).

The disagreement between the Hungarian government and the European Commission over the law regulating public construction investments persists, risking significant economic and political consequences for Hungary-EU relations.