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From the people who brought you the passerelle and the emergency brake comes...the catflap. The policy wonks who are negotiating the ‘fiscal compact' have been tying...

The decision by BASF to close down its production of GM crops operations in Europe prompts questions over whether Europe can afford to be a ‘GM-free continent'. Crop...

Authorisation regime will now be handled by the European Chemicals Agency. Makers of biocides will be able to authorise their products at EU level rather than national level...

Initiative may not win full support from animal rights groups. The European Commission is weighing up whether to propose dedicated EU legislation on animal welfare, according...

Public perception of HIV/AIDS has shifted, and the disease is no longer always fatal, but that has also led to complacency and a lack of funding. In the three decades since...

Many donors are making the switch from disease-specific funding to general health funding, a move that some campaigners fear will cost lives. The discovery of AIDS and HIV...

HIV infection rates in Europe remain low by global standards, but there has been an alarming growth in eastern Europe in the past decade. At the end of 2009, around 820,000...

Europe lags far behind the United States when it comes to developing drugs to combat HIV and AIDS, and in some parts of Europe access to drugs can be worse than in...

A film about an extraordinary story from wartime Poland is both uplifting and a grim reminder of recent history. In early 1986 I bought a flimsy paperback in a dusty...

ECJ rules that a process for removing stem cells from human embryos that requires the prior destruction of the embryos cannot be patented. The European Court of Justice has...

Europe should allocate a proportion of the funds to development issues. The idea of a financial transaction tax (FTT) has been lying idle for decades since it was first put...

EFA (European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients' Associations) is looking to immediately fill the position of EU Policy and Project Officer (m/f).

EFA (European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients' Associations) Is looking for an intern (m/f) for immediate effect.

ECJ rules on two cases involving GM maize, and both sides say decisions work in their favour. The biotechnology industry and campaigners against genetic modification have...

E. coli outbreak over, European Commission says. Russia has lifted temporary certification requirements on vegetable imports from the European Union, the European Commission...

The EU has a good record in some areas of public health; there is a strong case for it to turn its attention to hepatitis as well. Today, 28 July, is the fourth World...

European Food Safety Authority says seeds from Egypt caused European health scare. Fenugreek seeds imported from Egypt are the most likely source of the recent E. Coli...

Number of cases of illnesses has fallen to “significantly lower level”. The outbreak of a fatal strain of E. coli that has killed more than 30 people in northern ...

Deadly strain traced to a farm in Lower Saxony. Bean sprouts from an organic farm in northern Germany have been identified as the source of an E. coli outbreak that has...

EU has to 'learn lessons' from botched handling of E. coli outbreak. The European Union's procedures for handling food-safety alerts are to be reviewed in the wake of...