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Around 20 vessels left the Spanish city on Sunday aiming to “open a humanitarian corridor and end the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people” amid the Israel-Hamas war, said the Global Sumud Flotilla. Sumud is the Arabic term for “resilience”. But “due to unsafe weather conditions, we conducted a sea trial and then returned to […]

BERLIN – The German government arranged for ten Afghan families to be relocated to Germany on Monday after suspending the promised resettlement of at-risk Afghan refugees for months.  German courts had ruled in at least some two dozen cases that Berlin would need to honour previous commitments to issue visas that were part of a humanitarian […]

Four European commissioners have written to civil servants saying the “catastrophic” and “unbearable” situation in Gaza is at the top of their institution’s political agenda. “The humanitarian situation in Gaza is catastrophic and the level of suffering remains unbearable. Urgent action is needed, and this is the primary focus of the Commission,” wrote Spain’s Teresa […]

WARSAW – Poland, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia have called on the European Commission to provide additional funds for the protection of the EU’s external borders. The countries are seeking financial support to strengthen, among other things, aerial surveillance systems as well as drone and counter-drone capabilities. In a letter to European Commission Vice President […]

Fragile Foundations Healthy soil is the backbone of our global food system. We all rely on fruit and vegetables grown in regions that are increasingly affected by extreme weather and resource stress. Some projections suggest that if current practices continue, global agricultural productivity could fall by up to 30% by 2050. Crops that provide around […]

Good Monday morning and welcome back to The Capitals – get ready for one hell of a rentrée. Europe faces major changes in the weeks ahead. So does this newsletter. I’m Eddy Wax, here with Nicoletta Ionta and the rest of Euractiv’s newsroom. Got a tip, rumour, or story idea? Drop me a line by […]

The Brussels official in charge of liaising with the European institutions says expats should not fear violent crime in the Belgian capital, insisting it is confined to the city’s “rotten” areas. Brussels is in the grip of a drug war between organised crime gangs and has already seen nearly 60 shootings this year, including 20 […]

The German government is hoping to buy out North Sea shrimp fishermen to make way for offshore wind turbines, but far-right politicians say culturally significant practices are being lost along the way. German shrimp fisheries, operating at scale since the late 1800s, are on the decline. Their paltry 7,500 tonnes North Sea prawn catch of […]

In July, Indonesian Deputy Foreign Minister Arif Havas Oegroseno announced a new push to develop palm oil standards through Global South cooperation organisations – specifically the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and others), CPAPC (the Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries) and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). It comes as the […]

Ursula von der Leyen said EU countries are working on a roadmap for the deployment in Ukraine of a multinational troop backed by the United States after the war, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. European capitals are developing concrete plans for potential military deployments to Ukraine, the Commission president told the newspaper. These deployments […]