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Luxembourg will need another 270,000 workers by 2030, according to the Chamber of Commerce’s estimates, a figure that worries the industrial sector, artisan businesses and the banking industry. Foreign workers make up 70% of Luxembourg’s 460,000-strong labour force, with 210,000...

Belgium is currently facing a serious drug shortage with a total of 1,239 medicines being unavailable – a far cry from numbers revealed by the country’s Federal Medicines Agency – according to the  Febelco Group, Belgium’s biggest medicines supplier, Belgian...

About 47% of French people across all age groups are overweight, a number that has increased by nearly 10 percentage points in the last 25 years, a League Against Obesity study has found. The proportion of people who are overweight...

The German government will take action in response to Iran sentencing a German-Iranian citizen to death over so-called “corruption on earth” charges, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday. On Tuesday, a Revolutionary Court in Tehran sentenced 67-year-old Jamshid Sharmahd...

After months of stalling, the Hungarian parliament will discuss the support of the Swedish and Finnish NATO accession applications on Wednesday. On 1 March, the Hungarian parliament will start discussing Budapest’s support to Sweden and Finland’s application to NATO, as...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni travelled to Kyiv Tuesday to emphasise her government’s position in support of Ukraine – a likely attempt to cover up for the pro-Russian sentiments recently voiced by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and Infrastructure and...

Austria must take a more proactive stance in shaping EU foreign and defence policy matters and not hide behind its historically neutral stance towards conflict, European Parliament Vice-President Othmar Karas told EURACTIV on Tuesday after signing an open letter to...

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Sofia is experiencing staffing problems, with some of the EU-delegated prosecutors that have begun working on VAT and EU money fraud cases in Bulgaria leaving the office, and others already applying for other...

DRAFT REPORT containing a motion for a non-legislative resolution on the draft Council decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the Union, of the Framework Agreement on Partnership and Cooperation between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Government of Malaysia, of the other part
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Gheorghe-Vlad Nistor

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Integrated pest management (IPM) - a strategy which uses a hierarchy of plant protection products to minimise the use of chemical pesticides - is gaining popularity in Poland, but producers say change must happen by 'evolution rather than revolution'.

The EU's legitimacy and credibility has also suffered recently due to the Qatargate scandal engulfing the European Parliament, which undermines the EU's ability to protect the rule of law in member states.

After the European Galileo satellites, used by more than 2 billion mobile devices worldwide and the Copernicus satellites for Earth observation, the network of IRIS² telecommunication satellites will be the EU’s third major satellite programme. In this event report, EURACTIV...

The European Union completed a reform on Tuesday (21 February) that will see energy independence objectives added to the bloc’s €800 billion recovery fund adopted two years ago in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

It is evident that the EU is putting substantial diplomatic and political effort into its 'externalisation' of migration plans: Niger, for example, received visits in 2022 from Ursula von der Leyen and EU commissioenrs Ylva Johannson and Jutta Urpilainen.

At least 100 migrants are brought to the French Border Police facility in the town of Menton every day — often kept for hours in inhumane conditions and eventually expelled under procedures that contradict European and international law.

Hungarian prime prime minister Viktor Orbán has set the ball rolling for ratification of Finland and Sweden's Nato accession.

The use of cages, the practice of mutilation and feed restriction should be avoided for the welfare of farmed broiler chickens and laying hens, according to new scientific opinions from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

Many were surprised when Boris Pistorius was announced as the new German defence minister, but only five weeks in, he already seems to live up to the task and has won over most of his former critics.

The European Union's Brexit chief said on Tuesday (21 February) that the finishing line was in sight for talks on easing post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland ahead of a second successive day of discussions with his British counterparts.

Artificial intelligence is a key enabler in fighting the climate crisis. By leveraging digitalisation in support of decarbonisation, Europe can achieve a twin transition to accelerate the deployment of scaleable solutions. Technological solutions and machine learning can promote a more...