Insulin affordability and availability across Europe are just part of the complex diabetes management dynamics challenging the EU’s fragile and diverse healthcare systems. Socioeconomic and regional disparities play their part, but so too does innovation.

As the Western Balkans and other candidate countries steadily make their way to the European Union, alignment with European standards and regulations is a crucial tool that can facilitate their integration, especially in the Single Market.

Is the European Commission pushing the fertiliser sector too hard, too fast? A green nitrogen decarbonisation project has been postponed, and European funding declined because of ‘unrealistic’ and ‘unworkable’ climate-focused regulations.

The European Commission recently announced more than €380 million in grants to 133 new projects across Europe to achieve the EU Green Deal, including the EU’s aim to become climate-neutral by 2050.

Bulgaria is risking an increase in deaths directly or indirectly caused by antibiotic-resistant pathogens, following a 27% rise in antibiotic use over the past five years.

Belgian social democrat MEP Estelle Ceulemans has raised concerns about the Commission’s demotion of health from its leading priorities. It underscores, she says, the need to promote women’s health and to further revise the EU Pharma Package.

Both complaints were inadmissible, the Czech authority said. 

Raised on a family farm, the agriculture commissioner-designate will have to bridge political divides to deliver a plan that balances sustainability and competitiveness.

It seems all the ingredients are there for unrest, and let us not be afraid to say it – civil war.

The European dairy sector has committed to an ambitious roadmap to combat climate change, aiming for significant greenhouse gas reductions and enhanced sustainability practices. Industry leaders stress environmental responsibility, efficiency, and animal welfare amid challenges facing rural communities and small farms.

The pharmaceutical giant has been fined for anticompetitive behaviour designed to exclude generic producers from competing with its blockbuster multiple sclerosis medicine.

The long-awaited hearings provide the EPP another chance to flex its considerable influence in Parliament and ensure the new Commission is to its liking.

Many stakeholders argue that the transition to sustainable food systems needs to be accomplished in a manner that respects and preserves Europe's natural resources.

All countries in the region have been importing labour from Asia and the Eastern European countries outside the EU.

It will look into what systems the platform has to prevent the sale of illegal goods in the EU.

Stay up to date with the parliamentary hearings for the potential next College of European Commissioners

Social Democrat leader Vilija Blinkeviciute told reporters on Wednesday Paluckas was "best prepared" for the top job as she had opted not to take it on for health reasons.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Czechia's anti-monopoly office halting the progress of a nuclear tender , a candidate in the Romanian presidential race being accused of using a troll farm, and so much more.  

The president of the Permanent Electoral Authority said no complaints about troll farms had been received.

The leaders of the European Union and NATO member nation have been quarrelling for weeks over sending officers to the alliance's mission in Germany to train Ukraine soldiers.