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No roadmap on CoFoE follow-up yet, says socialist group leader

Tue, 13/09/2022 - 18:54
A roadmap is needed to follow up on recommendations citizens made during the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE), the leader of the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament told a press conference on Tuesday.
Categories: European Union

Finland’s PM Marin calls for unity in light of looming energy crisis

Tue, 13/09/2022 - 18:18
The EU will survive "Russia's blackmail" of energy supplies and the looming long winter but only if it manages to maintain "unity, determination and courage," Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin warned on Tuesday (13 September).
Categories: European Union

MEPs call for boost of education, culture to aid decline in children’s mental health

Tue, 13/09/2022 - 17:47
European lawmakers voted in favour of a non-binding report calling for increased spending on education and culture in order to combat the decline in the mental health of children and young people.
Categories: European Union

Commission: Too soon to tell impact of relaxing agricultural green measures

Tue, 13/09/2022 - 17:41
The European Commission has said they do not yet have a clear picture of the impact of their controversial decision to temporarily pause certain environmental requirements in the EU’s farming subsidy programme on yields. 
Categories: European Union

Organic producers to receive a boost from France’s CAP plan

Tue, 13/09/2022 - 16:50
Organic production has been placed front and centre of France's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) strategic plan - but despite some environmental progress, critics have raised concerns about the plan's ability to meet the objectives of the European Green Deal.
Categories: European Union

The Brief — Berlin’s daydreaming leadership

Tue, 13/09/2022 - 16:20
Germany is not exactly known for its ambitions in international security. While yesterday’s keynote address of Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht heads in the right direction, it still brings to mind the lingering German illusion about the logic of international relations and the notion of leadership.
Categories: European Union

Prof Michael Obersteiner: No scientific literature that bioenergy is more harmful than fossil energy [Promoted content]

Tue, 13/09/2022 - 16:00
There is no scientific literature to support the claim that bioenergy is more harmful than fossil energy, according to leading environmental scientist, Director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford   Responding to claims that bioenergy is...
Categories: European Union

Transparency groups decry ‘late-night’ deal on EU Parliament’s new top officials

Tue, 13/09/2022 - 15:19
Two leading transparency NGOs have tabled a formal complaint to the European Ombudsman in protest at what they described as a “late-night decision on 12 September to rush through a package of top job appointments”, including the post of the secretary-general and several directors-general. 
Categories: European Union

EU to mediate in Armenia-Azerbaijan hostilities as spectre of war looms

Tue, 13/09/2022 - 15:15
The escalation of decades-old hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan on Tuesday (13 September) has fuelled fears that a second full-fledged war could break out in Europe's neighbourhood in addition to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Categories: European Union

Spiking energy prices threaten to drain EV revolution’s power

Tue, 13/09/2022 - 15:07
An almost perfect storm of problems have beset the production of EVs in Europe in recent months, leading to a slow down in sales. One of the most pressing challenges is the skyrocketing cost of energy.
Categories: European Union

EU set to ban forced labour products from the bloc’s market

Tue, 13/09/2022 - 14:11
The European Commission is proposing a blanket ban on all goods made with forced labour produced in the EU or imported from third countries, according to a draft proposal seen by EURACTIV.
Categories: European Union

Scant resources might threaten enforcement on Big Tech, EU data protection bodies warn

Tue, 13/09/2022 - 12:00
The European privacy watchdogs have sent a letter, seen exclusively by EURACTIV, requesting the European Parliament and Council to allocate more financial resources in next year’s budget or face a loss in credibility in the EU’s data protection rules. The...
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Six flaws in the EU Electricity Emergency Tool and how to fix them

Tue, 13/09/2022 - 11:52
Tomorrow, the European Commission will present its proposal for "an electricity emergency tool" - a mechanism to claw back windfall profits from power generators and use the money to support electricity consumers. Ingmar Schlecht, Lion Hirth and Christoph Maurer lay out their assessment of the proposal.
Categories: European Union

Health committee will co-lead health data space dossier in the European Parliament

Tue, 13/09/2022 - 09:41
Despite the initial decision to assign the European Health Data Space exclusively to the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee (LIBE), it has now been agreed that the committee for health (ENVI) will co-lead the file, which expands the EU data regulation.
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Germany to stop exporting banned pesticides, push for EU-wide halt

Tue, 13/09/2022 - 09:10
Germany will ban from next spring the export to third countries of pesticides that are not authorised for the EU market and will also push for a bloc-wide export ban together with France.
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Polish Participatory Budgeting: a closer look

Tue, 13/09/2022 - 09:00
In Poland, participatory budgeting is an established democratic tool allowing citizens to decide which initiatives to fund through the local budget. As part of H2020 DEMOTEC, EURACTIV travelled to Wroclaw, in Western Poland, to speak with local decision-makers and citizens...
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Italy’s far-right Meloni tells Europe ‘fun is over’

Tue, 13/09/2022 - 08:28
In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Swedish right-wing parties refusing to form a coalition with the far-right party despite its success in the election, Czech farmers planning a massive protest against the new CAP, and so much more.
Categories: European Union

Dutch cabinet plans to pay citizens’ energy debts

Tue, 13/09/2022 - 08:22
The cabinet is finalising a plan to help people who cannot afford to pay their energy bills as prices continue to rise, Dutch media NOS reported. The plan is to help people who can no longer afford to pay their...
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Fresh clashes erupt between Azerbaijan, Armenia

Tue, 13/09/2022 - 08:20
Clashes erupted between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops, Russian news agencies reported early on Tuesday (13 September), in a resumption of decades-old hostilities linked to the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Germany could loosen arms export rules, still hesitant on tanks for Ukraine

Tue, 13/09/2022 - 08:17
Germany should loosen its restrictive arms exports rules, said Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht, though she remains reluctant to supply Ukraine with the Western battle tanks it requested. Lambrecht, a member of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic SPD, made the comments...
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