All eyes are on Teresa Ribera, after the Spanish politician has been tasked with steering Europe's green transition while balancing competitiveness, as part of the next EU Commission. In this episode, host Giada Santana and Environment hub editor Donagh Cagney analyse highlights and lowlights of the incoming environment and energy commissioners.

A comprehensive report by Poland's Supreme Audit Office has exposed severe shortcomings within the country's psychiatric care system, with children waiting in hospital corridors, and unacceptably long queues for treatment.

Neurological diseases should become a strategic priority in the Polish healthcare system, according to a report. Estimates suggest one-third of the population is struggling with a chronic neurological condition.

The Danish government wants to abolish healthcare professionals' obligation to report unintentional incidents with patients, a system that has existed for 20 years and is still considered a success.

Latvia is strengthening football gender equality, implementing good practices under the European Union’s TARGET football project, and deploying new long-term development strategies.

Leading scientists, pharmaceutical representatives, and patient advocates in pulmonary and respiratory health convened in Vienna at the annual European Respiratory Society Congress. They focused on 'Humans and Machines: Getting the Balance Right’. 

The European Commission will stop looking into whether Microsoft's hiring of Inflection AI staff breached EU merger rules after seven EU countries dropped their requests for an investigation, the EU executive said in a press release on Wednesday (18 September). 

Defence Commissioner-designate Andrius Kubilius has proposed controversial funding methods, including Eurobonds and recovery funds, to boost the EU’s defence industry amid growing debate over financing the sector.

Far-right PVV leader Geert Wilders described the Dutch official request to the European Commission to opt out of EU migration policy as a ‘mini-Nexit’, even though the Commission has already questioned its feasibility.

After Tuesday's (17 September) unveiling of the new transport commissioner-designate, MEPs and the sector’s stakeholders comment on Tzitzikostas and his programme.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has neatly shared out top jobs among the political camps in the next EU executive, in an effort to give the European Parliament as few reasons as possible to meddle in her plan.

On Wednesday (18 September), MEPs rejected two Commission proposals to adjust the limits for residues of some EU banned chemicals in food, as some of them are not reduced to zero in imported products.

In an attempt to justify a practice that has brought Malta before the European Court of Justice (ECJ) twice, Malta’s Federation for Hunting and Conservation recently published passionate views that distort the reality of finch trapping, writes Nicholas Barbara.

A more circular, resource-efficient economy is a top EU policy priority. Explore the EU Vision Paper for the European steel packaging industry, learn how we are turning this vision into reality, and discover our key priorities for the 2024-2029 term.

Partido Popular (PP/EPP) leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo on Wednesday (18 September) compared Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to the late dictator Francisco Franco over a controversial media transparency plan presented on Tuesday (17 September).

Ursula von der Leyen’s commissioners-designate are to present 30 new strategies, acts, and initiatives to make Europe competitive and secure in tech.

Slovenia's national parliament is expected to end a procedural hold-up that's been preventing the formal nomination of the country's European Commission candidate on Wednesday (18 September).

To reboot Europe as an attractive location for industry, the EU needs to draw up a bold master plan to strengthen Europe's competitiveness. The motto should certainly be “less regulation, more freedom for companies”.

The International Monetary Fund has postponed its planned consultation mission with Russia indefinitely because of technical issues, TASS agency cited Alexei Mozhin, Russia's director at the IMF, as saying on Wednesday (18 September).

Today (18 September) at the Strasbourg plenary, MEPs will have their full plenary debate on the EU’s budget for 2025.