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As the EU is struggling to find a response to Turkey’s disruptive activities in the Eastern Mediterranean, the upheaval in Belarus and the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, EURACTIV provides a closer look at how the EU’s sanction regime works and what the current challenges are.

Researchers in Bielefeld are working on an artificial intelligence that distributes electricity differently depending on weather conditions. EURACTIV Germany reports.

Kazakhstan has barred three air carriers from operating for violating a UN Security Council embargo covering the supply of arms to Libya, the Central Asian country's government said Wednesday (23 September).

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According to Advocate General Bobek, the interim appointment of the Chief Judicial Inspector and the national provisions on the establishment of a specific prosecution section with exclusive jurisdiction for offences committed by members of the judiciary are contrary to EU law

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The principle of the freedom to provide services and the directive on cross-border healthcare preclude national legislation which excludes the reimbursement without prior authorisation of the costs connected to emergency surgery undergone by an insured person, who is a resident of a Member State, in another Member State

TikTok has admitted that it will not retroactively transfer all EU personal data to its new data site in Ireland when the facility is completed next year, in a decision that could provoke concern among data protection activists in Europe.

The European Commission has concerns that certain aspects of the UK's data protection regime may change in the future and negatively impact the safety of EU personal data when transferred to the country, Commission sources have informed EURACTIV.

European Union governments may be allowed to grant more state aid to projects that help the bloc achieve its climate goals, Europe’s antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said on Tuesday (22 September), calling such an incentive a “green bonus”.

Huawei Technologies will do everything it can to strengthen its supply chain which has been “attacked”, its rotating Chairman Guo Ping said on Wednesday (23 September).

Maltese police arrested former prime minister Joseph Muscat's chief of staff Keith Schembri Tuesday (22 September), as part of a probe into alleged kickbacks connected to the sale of so-called golden passports.

Investors slashed $50 billion from Tesla Inc's market value on Tuesday (22 September) despite CEO Elon Musk's promise to cut electric vehicle costs so radically that a $25,000 car that drives itself will be possible, but not for at least three years.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about eastern Austria refusing to shut restaurants and clubs at 10 am as COVID-19 cases increase, the Romanian parliament voting to increase pensions by 40%, and so much more.

Richard Grenell, the US president’s special envoy for the Belgrade-Priština dialogue, said in Belgrade yesterday (22 September) that the US is serious about keeping its promises to Belgrade and Priština. “We want to meet the promises that we gave earlier...

Romania’s parliament voted to increase pensions by 40%, a move which will put terrible pressure on an already strained budget. However, the country’s centre-right government led by Prime Minister Ludovic Orban vowed to fight the measure adopted by the socialist-controlled...

Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa (PSOE), and Madrid mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida (Popular Party), recommended on Tuesday to limit mobility in the county’s capital “to a minimum”, as extra preventive measures to help contain the fast spread of the second...

“New cases will continue to arise, but the increase in infections will be manageable,” said Italy’s vice-minister for health Pierpaolo Sileri in an interview on Tuesday (22 September). “When the term ‘second wave’ is used, panic arises. However, it will...

The European Commission has given its clearest indication yet that obligations on digital platforms to remove content are unlikely to feature in far-reaching EU efforts to regulate the web, due to be presented before the end of the year.

Global airlines called on Tuesday (22 September) for airport COVID-19 tests for all departing international passengers to replace the quarantines they blame for exacerbating the travel slump.

Pubs and restaurants will have to close at 10pm as part of a swathe of new coronavirus restrictions as the UK faces a second wave. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that the new restrictions were likely to be in...

Neo-Nazi group Nordic Resistance Movement (PVL) was ordered to shut down to preserve the general good of society, the Finnish Supreme Court said on Tuesday (22 September). The Court found – after a series of appeals in the lower court...