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Russian media didn't show the Eurovision finals, while attacking them as a "total bacchanalia" for "perverts" in its anti-Western culture war.

Half of the world's work is unpaid, and women carry out most of it. According to estimates, activities like cooking, cleaning, collecting food or caring for children and the elderly may be valued at up to 60 percent of GDP.

EVH v Commission
Competition
The action brought by the German electricity producer EVH against the approval by the Commission of the acquisition of E.ON assets by RWE is dismissed

enercity v Commission
Competition
The action brought by the German municipal authority enercity against the approval by the Commission of the acquisition of generation assets of E.ON by RWE is inadmissible

BK and ZhP (Suspension partielle de la procédure au principal)
Law governing the institutions
A request for a preliminary ruling made to the Court of Justice does not prevent the referring court from continuing the main proceedings in part

DC (Rétractation après l’exécution du contrat)
Approximation of laws
Failure to provide information on the right of withdrawal: a consumer is exempt from any payment obligation if he or she withdraws from a service contract concluded off-premises which has already been performed

EU countries are preparing to help their companies to exit Russia, amid a growing risk they will be taxed to fund Putin's war.

EUobserver sat down with the economist and historian Matthias Schmelzer to talk about his recent work on degrowth, why growth is such a powerful paradigm, and how to imagine a world not based on ever-increasing consumption and waste.

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DRAFT OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council Establishing a framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials and amending Regulations (EU) 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, 2018/1724 and (EU)
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Miriam Lexmann

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With the significant influence it can have on EU legislation, it is disturbing that the Regulatory Scrutiny Board is allowed to operate largely in secret. EU citizens and even MEPs have no insight into how the RSB reaches its decisions.

My hopes of reclaiming Turkey for liberal democracy were shattered on Sunday. An opportunity to close the doors of the hell of autocracy slipped through our grasp.

While the European Parliament was demanding a clamp down on tax havens, many of its own MEPs were using their monthly office allowances to finance a luxury pension scheme that held corporate assets in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and elsewhere.

Four-day workweek pilots are springing up everywhere — do they work? And for whom? Is it possible to scale up these models in an EU that is primarily committed to growth?

Members of the AFET Committee will meet on Wednesday 24 May 2003 - 9.00-12.30 and 14.00-18.00 and
Thursday 25 May 2003 - 9.00-11.00 and 11.00-12.30 (ANTALL 4Q2)

Debates:

• Recent developments in the Lachin corridor and the relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan
• New developments in the Gulf and the Middle East region
• Geopolitical dialogue on the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA III)
• Situation in Tunisia
• The Democratic Republic of the Congo ahead of the elections in 2023
• Public Hearing on the EU and Latin America relations
• Public hearing on the Implementation report on the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement
• Presentation of the Study on African Union

Votes:

• 2022 Report on North Macedonia
• 2022 Report on Albania
• Framework Agreement between the European Union and the Kingdom of Thailand
• Framework Agreement between the European Union and the Government of Malaysia
• The protection of journalists around the world and the European Union's policy on the matter
  

The meeting will be webstreamed.

AFET-SEDE-DROI meetings 2023
Meeting documents
Webstreaming
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Detailed plans are taking shape for the EU's new anti-money laundering agency, which is to have a beehive of secure offices around a massive meeting room.

The European Commission raised its economic growth forecast but notes that inflation will continue to eat into household income while the contribution of corporate profits to price pressure is expected to remain high in 2023.

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