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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio in Rome on Tuesday as part of his week-long Europe, during which he will also visit France, Germany, Netherlands and Norway. This is Wang Yi’s first foreign...

Finland’s seasonally adjusted GDP saw a 3.2% drop in the second quarter of 2020, according to Statistics Finland, while back in May, the national banks and other economists had predicted the economy to take a 10% hit. This means that...

UK businesses will be required to show that their products and supply lines are free from illegal deforestation, under a proposed new law. Meanwhile, the draft due diligence law will force large firms to show where commodities such as cocoa,...

EU chief diplomat Josep Borrell will present a toolbox of “options” for Turkey which will be broader than sanctions, a senior EU official said in Brussels on Tuesday. At an upcoming meeting of EU foreign ministers in Berlin (27-28 August),...

A coalition of businesses including Signify, Glencore and Fairphone have launched a joint initiative to improve the economic, working and social conditions of those working in the cobalt supply chain. EURACTIV's media partner, edie.net, reports.

Russia's foreign ministry said on Tuesday (25 August) it had warned the United States and European Union against imposing sanctions on its ally Belarus and interfering in its internal affairs.

While chemical recycling opens new possibilities for the circular economy, only a full lifecycle approach will be able to determine the real environmental benefits in terms of saved energy and global warming emissions, a senior EU official has said.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday (25 August) said he was "deeply concerned" by initial findings that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned, and endorsed a European Union-led investigation into the circumstances of his illness.

Embattled EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan was fighting to keep his title on Tuesday (25 August), as the Irish government said he breached a trio of coronavirus guidelines on a trip to the Republic to attend a parliamentary golf society...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez ruled out declaring another national state of alarm over the coronavirus following his first cabinet meeting after the summer vacation. Regional governments have the power to impose local measures if necessary, he said. EURACTIV's partner EFE reports.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó rejected allegations of corruption and calls for his resignation on Tuesday, speaking to the media for the first time after he was photographed aboard the yacht of a government-friendly tycoon more than a week ago.

Turkey has long been the 'hot potato' of EU foreign policy, but these days, it is rapidly turning into a really serious problem that cannot be swept under the carpet.

Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin called for cutting the current eight-hour working day in her keynote speech to her Social Democratic Party on Monday (24 August), arguing shorter hours could be offset by increased productivity.

EU powerhouse Germany told Turkey and Greece on Tuesday (25 August) to defuse their escalating row over gas exploration in the Mediterranean or risk sparking a "catastrophe".

The gas and nuclear industries have ramped up lobbying to secure last-ditch changes to European rules defining which investments are sustainable, fearing that exclusion from a new “green” list could deprive them of billions of dollars of funding.

In the wake of an "enlargement summit" in May that omitted the word enlargement altogether, the Western Balkans region is set to stay high on the Brussels agenda this fall and possibly even mark one or two milestones in the drawn-out process.

The protests to unseat Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko are neither pro- nor anti-Russian but a democratic revolution "for the right of the people to decide their own destiny," the leader of the protests told an extraordinary meeting of the European Parliament's foreign affairs committee on Tuesday (25 August).

València (Spain) deserves to be the European Capital of Innovation because it understands innovation as a collective journey where all sectors have their place, with a positive impact of people’s lives, showing them at the same time the social value of innovation.

Europe has urged Russian authorities to come clean on who poisoned Alexei Navalny, amid German fear of Russian assassins also in Berlin.

Europe has urged the Kremlin to come clean on who poisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, after a German clinic said he had ingested a nerve toxin. "Those responsible must be identified and brought to justice," German chancellor Angela Merkel said. "Russian people, as well as the international community, are demanding the facts," EU foreign relations chief Josep Borrell added. German police have been posted outside Navalny's hospital in Berlin.