The Commission under Ursula von der Leyen wants to tackle Temu, AliExpress, Shein and Amazon's Marketplace with a toolbox of ...

The European Commission has adopted legislation requiring EU countries to do Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) during foodborne outbreaks. Member states will need to collect Salmonella, Listeria ...

The VDE and the ZVEH are against government plans to have new technical documents drawn up to implement the Gigabit Infrastructure Ordinance.

The new European commissioner for health and animal safety has promised to improve areas related to food safety standards. Olivér Várhelyi, Commissioner for Health and Animal Safety, said he ...

In its 2024 election manifesto, the Labour Party promised to "reset the relationship" between the UK and the EU. But seven months since Sir Keir Starmer won the general election, are we any closer ...

Ask yourselves what we can do for our own security,” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, whose country holds the EU presidency, said, paraphrasing a quote from U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s ...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer this week joined EU heads of government for a dinner in Brussels – the first British leader to do so since Brexit. On the menu: transatlantic relations and defence.

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While warning of a possible attack by Russia in the coming years, Kallas added that the EU had for too long offered Russia alternatives. Kallas’s rallying cry was the latest in a slew of ...

Preliminary data reveal a significant 38 percent drop in irregular border crossings into the EU in 2024, “reaching the lowest level since 2021, when migration was still affected by the COVID ...

The French president views the prime minister as the “demandeur”, a leader humbled into returning to the EU fold because Britain has been weakened by Brexit, senior diplomats have reportedly said.