Wester Van Gaal

Faced with massive investment needs and foreign competition, cash-strapped European leaders want to rejuvenate the nearly decade-old political project known as the capital market union.

The EU's nature restoration law, which aims to restore at least 20 percent of its land and sea by the end of the decade, is on life support.

Italian central banker Piero Cipollone in his first monetary policy speech since joining the ECB's board in November, said that the bank should be ready to "swiftly dial back our restrictive monetary policy stance."

The Berliner Sparkasse bank has frozen the account of anti-zionist Jewish organisation.

Veteran European ombudsman Emily O'Reilly has cautioned about the risks of tobacco lobbying's influence on the European Commission.

MEPs have approved a long-fought over supply chain law, which aims to hold large companies accountable for their impact on humans and the environment.

Energy ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) wealthy countries who met in Italy on Monday (29 April) are said to have agreed to end the use of coal by 2035.