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With some clear exceptions, there appears to be broad support among European governments to open negotiations on a 2040 emissions reduction target as soon as possible – but enthusiasm for the 90% cut favoured by the European Commission was less in evidence at an EU Council summit on Thursday.

Google is likely to have broken new competition rules, while Apple is the first Big Tech firm to be ordered to comply in specific ways.

European Commission president says average spending in Europe is 1.9% of GDP, while Russia’s is 9%

European Commission should take office on 1 December after centre-right EPP and Socialists forge compromise

Spain's under-fire ecological transition minister, a candidate for a top European Commission post, said Wednesday that questioning the role of state agencies during the country's devastating floods was "dangerous".

Large parts of east and south under alerts as schools are shut and riverside neighbourhoods evacuated in Andalucía

Estonia's ex-prime minister Kaja Kallas and France's ex-foreign minister Stéphane Séjourné are among six vice-presidents chosen by EU chief Ursula von der Leyen to lead her new European Commission. They are set to face scrutiny from lawmakers in Brussels on Tuesday during the final day of a week-long confirmations hearings…

The heavyweights of the EU's new top team are to be quizzed by lawmakers in Brussels on Tuesday during confirmation hearings that are set to lay bare political dividing lines within the bloc.

Lawmakers began grilling would-be members of the next European Commission Monday, with a personal tale of bereavement bringing unexpected poignancy to the start of hearings to confirm Ursula von der Leyen's top team.