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Germany’s Greens are caught between a rock candy and a hard place. They took over the agriculture ministry with the declared ambition to make diets healthier – but many in the country will fight (sweet) tooth and nail for their...

Moscow on Friday (10 March) accused foreign countries of fomenting days of mass protests in Georgia, likening them to an attempted coup designed to sow tension on Russia's borders.

EU lawmakers seem closer to an agreement on the most significant overhaul of EU’s fisheries monitoring rules in a decade despite the Commission's opposition to relaxing rules on misreporting fish catches.

OPINION on guidelines for the 2024 budget – Section III
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Carina Ohlsson

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A new Council text on the revised Product Liability Directive, seen by EURACTIV, puts software more firmly under the scope, clarifies the concept of manufacturers’ control and seeks to limit national fragmentation. The Swedish presidency of the EU Council of...

Carbon neutral claims are misleading and confuse consumers, according to a new report from consumer group BEUC who call for the terms to be banned from food and drink products in the EU. 

The EU border agency Frontex has confirmed that it analysed in real time the intercepted data from the migrant boat that eventually sank in late February together with two official Italian representatives at the Frontex headquarters in Warsaw.

Microsoft and Google’s move towards answer engines requires competition authorities to preserve dynamic competition while minimising adverse effects on third parties, writes Christophe Carugatti.

Plenary Session, Strasbourg

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Due to its geography, squeezed between China and Russia, the government of Mongolia is forced to perform a balancing act. However, public opinion in Mongolia resolutely condemns the brutal attack against this sovereign nation.

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Tech Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU.

EIT Food connects the world of agriculture and rural areas with innovative startups and agtech solutions. This is why the recently published European Innovation Agenda with a strong emphasis on women entrepreneurship and bridging the gender gap in deeptech startups provides additional perspective to the discussion. Women remain underrepresented in both deep tech startups and in investment funds despite clear correlations between company growth and the presence of diverse teams, including women, in leadership positions. In 2020, technology companies with female-only founders captured just 1.7% of the capital raised in European VC markets, and the difference between male-led companies and those with mixed and/or female founders remained significant in terms of both capital raised and the number of deals. What needs to be done to bridge this gap in agtech and foodtech? What role shall both women and men play in this process? Why do we need more women among agrifood startup founders? Let’s discuss it during the online panel on the International Women’s Day! Organised by: EIT Food Media Partner: EURACTIV

Sweden has launched new EU talks on combatting racism and antisemitism — but not Islamophobia, prompting accusations of a rightwing approach.

MEPs and the Swedish Presidency of the Council agreed on new energy saving targets in both primary and final energy consumption in the EU.
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

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MEPs and the Swedish Presidency of the Council agreed on new energy saving targets in both primary and final energy consumption in the EU.
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

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The EU has nearly exhausted its options for punitive measures against Russia and the bloc’s attention needs to shift to financial and military support for Ukraine, the EU's chief diplomat Josep Borrell told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview.

EU lawmakers have agreed to increase the ambition of the bloc’s energy efficiency directive, making energy savings of 11.7% by 2030 mandatory in a bid to further the bloc's climate and energy independence goals.

EXCLUSIVE: The steel and chemical industries have joined calls to incorporate nuclear-made fuels in the EU’s renewable energy targets, saying all types of clean hydrogen will be needed to reach the bloc’s decarbonisation objectives.

European Union countries agreed on Thursday (9 March) to promote a "global phase-out of unabated fossil fuels" ahead of the United Nation's COP28 climate summit this year, attempting to boost a global deal that failed at last year's summit.

The Polish parliament backtracked on Thursday (9 March) on a proposal to boost onshore wind capacity, mandating that wind turbines be located at a minimum distance of 700 metres from residential buildings.