EURACTIV media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give EURACTIV one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 3 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is EURACTIV biased?
The rating organisations do not give EURACTIV one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is EURACTIV left or right?
The rating organisations do not give EURACTIV one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is EURACTIV reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for EURACTIV are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What EURACTIV has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with EURACTIV’s own report linked underneath.
French presidential candidate Gabriel Attal has proposed the creation of a 'United States of Europe'. He stated that the current 27-member EU has reached its limits and advocated for a two-speed model and joint European debt.
EURACTIV reported it asTime to build United States of Europe, says France's Attal (opens EURACTIV in a new tab)
The European Commission plans to propose a ban on social media for children under 13. Those aged 13 to 15 would have restricted access, potentially via parent-supervised 'mini-accounts'. The legislation is to be known as the 'EU Kids Act'.
EURACTIV reported it asGamers will have to prove their age under EU Kids Act (opens EURACTIV in a new tab)
Seven candidates for the 2027 French presidential election participated in a debate organised by Medef, focusing on economic topics. Key figures like Édouard Philippe, Gabriel Attal, Marine Le Pen, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon presented their platforms amidst concerns from business leaders.
EURACTIV reported it asCancel it, burn it? French presidential hopefuls clash over debt (opens EURACTIV in a new tab)
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- MediahuisMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Brussels, Belgium
- Official site
- euractiv.com
- Seen publishing on
- euractiv.com
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 3
- Reports listed
- 3
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
3 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 1 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and EURACTIV ran the story anyway.
Across the 3 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of EURACTIV: its report arrived a median of 28 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 20 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 20 September 2026. Ratings pulled 6 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as EURACTIV, also publishing from Belgium, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Think this page is wrong?
The leanings above are published by AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, and we republish them rather than make them. If you think one is misapplied, the strongest place to say so is with the organisation that made it, and every verdict here links to their page.
What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where EURACTIV publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
Report something wrong on this page
Anything we correct is written up in the public corrections log. We do not publish reader votes as a rating, because an unattributed rating is the thing this site exists to argue against.
Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.