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MEPs and Latin American parliamentarians will meet in Madrid, Spain, to advance the bi-regional dialogue, starting with a welcome by H.M. King Felipe VI on Monday.
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Frans Timmermans will leave the European Commission to run for the leadership of the combined Labour and Green Left parties in a Dutch national election in November, newspaper De Volkskrant reported on Thursday (20 July).

Parliament will hold a hearing with Iliana Ivanova as the commissioner-designate for innovation, research, culture, education and youth on 5 September 2023.

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Welcome to EURACTIV’s Tech Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. Before we start, a little service announcement. This is the last issue ahead of the summer break. The next issue...

Parliament’s industry and culture committees will hold a hearing with Iliana Ivanova, who is the Bulgarian commissioner-designate.

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Parliament’s industry and culture committees will hold a hearing with Iliana Ivanova, who is the Bulgarian commissioner-designate.

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Beset by a woeful economy and struggling to shore up support, Erdoğan finds it increasingly difficult to maintain a neutral position between Russia and the US as he signals a realignment with the West, writes Tan Albayrak.

The EU warned the authorities of the increasingly defiant Republika Srpska (RS), the Serb entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Wednesday (20 July) to cease divisive rhetoric and actions or face "serious consequences".

EU leaders are reluctant to issue more debt for climate investments — they shouldn't be.

Work on pressuring Russia to stop its war on Ukraine must continue, even at a national level when the EU cannot, Jan Marian deputy foreign minister of the Czech Republic, told EURACTIV in an interview on Monday (3 June).

The rise of generative AI models like ChatGPT and Midjourney AI, able to produce incredibly realistic content, poses an unprecedented challenge to the creative sector. We discuss what this new generation of Artificial Intelligence means for this sector and human...

Spain, the current holder of the EU Council presidency, has been accused of undermining the adoption of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Europe following the circulation of a discussion paper that questions the EU's approach.

The White House warned on Wednesday (19 July) that Russia may expand its targeting of Ukrainian grain facilities to include attacks against civilian shipping in the Black Sea.

The European Parliament's minimalist approach to reforming the bloc's electricity market has been warmly welcomed by Germany’s energy industry, who lobbied strongly against parts of the proposal.

This week on EURACTIV’s Beyond the Byline podcast looks into the hotly contested nature restoration law, recently passed by a narrow margin within the EU. Aligned with President Ursula von der Leyen’s ambitious European Green Deal, this legislation aims to...

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Germany bettting on India to counter dependence on China, Bulgaria to end Russian control over key Black Sea oil port, and so much more.

Albanians believe their country is corrupt more than any other nationality in the Western Balkans, according to the result of the Regional Cooperation Council Balkan Barometer Survey 2023, but they also pin hopes on EU accession before 2030 as a...

Russia’s withdrawal from the grain deal will affect the whole world, including Serbia, according to EURACTIV agro-economic analyst Žarko Galetin. The grain deal, brokered by the UN and Turkey in July of last year, was supposed to ease the global...

Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met in Romania on Wednesday, although it was not on the Romanian PM’s agenda, and there was no official announcement. Romania’s Transport Minister Sorin Grindeanu, and the leader of...

Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová withdrew the mandate of now-former Interior Minister Ivan Šimko following his two-week-long dispute with police leadership. The dispute began with the minister criticising police work in some open criminal cases. Later, in a series of social...