Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera, the lead candidate of Spain’s left-wing PSOE in the upcoming EU elections, urged EU citizens on Tuesday to mobilise to prevent a possible alliance between the European People’s Party (EPP) candidate, current European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and far-right forces in the European Parliament.

Europeans suffer 100,000 amputations a year because of the escalating issue of ‘diabetic foot’. Diabetes already burdens health systems, but without more frequent monitoring programmes, experts warn the amputation crisis will get worse.

In Italy, G7 ministers agreed a coal phase out in the first half of the 2030s, agreed on their first-ever energy storage target, started difficult negotiations on climate finance past 2025 and founded a water coalition.

With the EU elections just a month away and the Greens struggling to get off the ground in the polls, Marie Toussaint, head of the Green party list, called on Tuesday for "a great leap forward".

A group of EU countries is calling to relax rules on mandatory practices to protect peatlands and wetlands under the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) only days after the European Parliament rubber-stamped an overhaul of six other environmental conditions.

The eurozone beat analyst expectations to emerge comfortably from a recession in the first quarter of this year, new EU data published on Tuesday (30 April) showed, while inflation figures boosted hopes of long-awaited rate cuts by the European Central Bank (ECB) in June.

Showing courageous responsibility means today that we must make our European Union fit to take in new countries already in this decade, writes German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.

European policymakers need to short-circuit Sudan’s warring parties’ attempts to manipulate aid to legitimate them as the government in waiting, writes Theodore Murphy.

European fisheries are at the heart of a diplomatic crisis brewing between the EU and the UK, their first trade spat since the UK left the European Union in February 2020.

As the European Union extends its hand in accession negotiations with Moldova, the nation stands at a pivotal juncture, poised between its past and its future. The European Union is engaging in accession talks with Moldova, marking a critical moment...

The European Commission announced on Tuesday (30 April) the winners of its first auction to allocate subsidies for hydrogen production, with most of the €720 million awarded going to projects in the Iberian peninsula.

The EU should expand its budget and consider linking all member state payments to structural reforms, EU Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn said on Monday (29 April).

European affairs ministers and their counterparts from EU candidate countries started talks on Tuesday (30 April) on how to strengthen the rule of law both within the bloc and in countries seeking to join it.

The European Commission is investigating whether Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, might have violated the DSA in its handling of misinformation.

Healthy, biodiverse forests provide a variety of ecosystem services such as improving air quality, helping to regulate global rainfall patterns, and mitigating the risks of climate change, as they can store large amounts of carbon

The spread of H5NI, otherwise known as bird flu, in cattle and mammals in the United States, has raised concerns among European stakeholders, but the European Union says they are well prepared. 

European bridges over maritime harbours are not likely to collapse should they be hit by seagoing vessels, according to several large European port authorities who Euractiv contacted following the March collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the US city of Baltimore.

Politicians from 22 EU countries, as well as the Agriculture Commissioner, are supporting Austria's calls to delay the anti-deforestation law.

A Russian missile attack on an educational institution in a popular seafront park in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa on Monday (29 April) killed at least five people and injured 32, local officials said.

Police moved in to clear dozens of protesters who had set up tents in a courtyard at the Sorbonne University in Paris on Monday (29 April) to protest against the war in Gaza, students there said.