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Why the EU is betting on prevention in its new wildfire strategy

Europe's record-breaking wildfires forced the EU to rewrite its wildfire playbook, shifting its strategy and billions in funding from battling flames to preventing catastrophic fires before they start.

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EU deployed its biggest wildfire response. Is it what Europe needs?

As wildfires rage across southern Europe, the EU has deployed its largest shared firefighting force. But the crisis exposes a growing gap between emergency response and wildfire prevention. Watch the video.

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What tools does the EU have to fight wildfires? Are they enough?

Europe’s wildfire crisis is testing the limits of the EU’s emergency response system, exposing a gap between growing firefighting capacity and slower efforts to make landscapes less flammable.

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What should the EU prioritise to tackle wildfires? Take our poll

The EU is deploying its largest-ever firefighting force in southern Europe to help countries battle wildfires. But is it enough, and what should Brussels prioritise?

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Can the EU combat wildfires? Ask the Euronews AI chatbot

As wildfires rage across Europe, the EU has launched its largest-ever cross-border firefighting response. Do you want to know how the EU's firefighting response system works? Ask the Euronews AI chatbot.

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What happens to your private messages under ‘Chat Control’?

Your private message may remain encrypted and unreadable to the platform carrying it, or be scanned by automated tools before reaching its recipient. This divide sits at the heart of the EU’s Chat Control debate and combating child exploitation online without undermining private communication.

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Is the EU's 'Chat Control' the end of private messaging in Europe?

EU countries have extended temporary rules allowing platforms to detect child sexual abuse material online voluntarily until 2028. Lawmakers' biggest battle is the permanent "chat control" law that could decide the future of private messaging in Europe. Watch the video.

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Why is 'Chat Control' one of the EU’s biggest digital rights fights?

EU governments have extended the bloc's interim "chat control" rules until April 2028, allowing online platforms to continue voluntarily scanning for child sexual abuse material while debate over mandatory detection continues.

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Air passengers' rights: Airlines have 12 months to adopt new rules

The European Council has given its final green light to a major overhaul of EU air passenger rights, starting a 12-month countdown for airlines to prepare and adopt the new rules. Watch the video

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The EU’s plan to triple energy storage as renewable power is wasted

Brussels, member states, industry, and banks have signed the EU's first Tripartite Agreement for Energy Storage to address a significant capacity gap, essential for lower energy costs and grid stability. Can a non-binding pact really deliver the storage Europe needs in time? Watch the video.

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Can batteries save the EU's wasted renewable energy?

The EU's first tripartite agreement on energy storage, signed in June, puts batteries at the heart of plans to capture more solar and wind power. The technology is ready and getting cheaper, but market rules, grid delays, industrial policy and raw-material politics still hold it back.

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From sewers to swimming sites: how Europe's cities reclaim rivers

As Europe braces for hotter summers, cities are reopening rivers once written off as polluted waterways. From Paris to Copenhagen, local authorities are investing in cleaner, swimmable rivers to adapt to rising temperatures and meet citizens' needs.

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Which European countries have the cleanest swimming waters and why?

Every summer, millions of Europeans head to beaches, lakes, and rivers. New data shows most of this water is safe, but not everywhere. Where are Europe's cleanest waters? Watch the video.

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EU slaps €3 duty fee on SHEIN, Temu and AliExpress imports

A new €3 customs duty takes effect across the EU on 1 July, ending years of tax-free shopping from platforms like SHEIN, Temu and AliExpress and signalling the end for ultra-cheap online hauls. Watch the video.

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Pay transparency isn't only about women. It exposes more inequalities

The EU's pay transparency rules can help close the gender pay gap and expose how Europe systematically underpays young, migrant, disabled and racialised workers.

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Which EU countries fight pay gaps? Transparency rules split the bloc

Only four EU countries have implemented the EU’s Pay Transparency Directive, missing the June deadline meant to boost enforcement of equal pay rules across the bloc. Watch the video.

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Synthetic opioids: can Europe keep up with a drug created every week?

Fifty new drugs were detected across Europe in 2025 alone, many of them highly potent synthetic opioids. Can the EU’s drugs strategy keep pace with an increasingly dangerous and fast-moving drug landscape?

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How is the EU tackling drug trafficking and synthetic substance use?

Europe's new drugs strategy runs to 2030, but critics warn it prioritises policing over public health. Watch the video!

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Why Europe's labour needs clash with its migration policy

Europe faces a paradox: economies need workers while governments tighten migration rules. This tension grows as the EU’s Migration and Asylum Pact takes effect on 12 June, marking the bloc’s strictest migration policy in decades.

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EU migration rules kick in, but enforcement is already in doubt

Two years after it was signed, the EU's Pact on Migration and Asylum takes effect this Friday, and the gap between promise and delivery is already wide. Will it hold? Watch the video.

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