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After years of negotiations, EU states finally reached a political agreement on asylum in order to start negotiations with the European Parliament. But a closer look at the details behind last week's agreement, reveals a new recipe for pushbacks.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen criticised on Thursday (15 June) the EU's immigration policy and that of Italy's right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who she accused of making "concessions" to Brussels in exchange for post-COVID recovery funds.

All eyes are on Brussels where the European Commission is hard at work deciding the EU’s 2040 climate target, where the executive must balance demands for restraint by leaders with calls for extra ambition by civil society. EURACTIV analyses why...

Welcome to EURACTIV’s weekly Economy Brief.

For what it’s worth, we read articles by Russian influencers about the war Vladimir Putin started in Ukraine. A recent one by Sergei Kaganov, a university professor and honorary chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, suggests a disturbing endgame.

UK nationals cannot automatically retain rights as EU citizens after Brexit, the EU’s top court confirmed on Thursday (15 June).

The EU's Nature Restoration Law survived a vote to reject it in the European Parliament’s environment committee, but lawmakers ran out of time due to the thousands of amendments tabled, meaning the committee vote is being postponed until 27 June.

Germany's finance minister Christian Lindner (FDP) has teamed up with 10 colleagues from Central, Eastern and Northern EU countries to call for strict fiscal rules ahead of a debate among EU finance ministers. 

The European Parliament's environment committee has adopted its position on the EU’s proposed ecodesign regulation for sustainable products, supporting an EU-wide ban on planned obsolescence as well as the destruction of unsold goods like textiles.

Last Sunday’s EU leaders’ visit to Tunisia paved the way for an agreement on the model of the EU-Turkey deal of 2016. But just like Turkey, Tunisia is not a safe country, and sending back there the asylum seekers who...

Following a series of high-level visits, Kazakhstan hopes for a fully-fledged Central Asian summit with the leaders of the European Council and the European Commission, a Kazakh diplomat said on 14 June at a conference organised by EURACTIV in Brussels.

How do we justly exit the era of fossil fuels when climate summits and EU officials stay surrounded by Big Oil lobbyists?

The relaxation of EU bovine tuberculosis control rules, proposed by the far-right government of Spain's Castilla y León region to cater for the local livestock sector, has sparked discontent among the European Commission and lawmakers.

Dear readers, Welcome to EU Politics Decoded where Benjamin Fox and Eleonora Vasques will bring you a round-up of the latest political news in Europe and beyond every Thursday. In this edition, with the EU elections a year away, we...

In the face of US and Chinese competition, the EU has put forward a draft delegated act on corporate sustainability that lets companies determine themselves if the standards apply to them.

EU regulations to cut vehicles' carbon emissions have proven controversial across the Visegrad nations. But the critical narrative put forward by some parties overlooks the economic potential in the automotive transition, write Patrik Krizansky and Aleksander Rajch.

Parliament calls for an annual ‘EU day for the victims of the global climate crises’ to be established to remember the human lives lost due to climate change.
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

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Parliament calls for an annual ‘EU day for the victims of the global climate crises’ to be established to remember the human lives lost due to climate change.
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

Source : © European Union, 2023 - EP

Parliament has adopted the proposal on its composition seeking to increase the number of seats by 11, to a total of 716, ahead of the European elections in June 2024.
Committee on Constitutional Affairs

Source : © European Union, 2023 - EP

Parliament has adopted the proposal on its composition seeking to increase the number of seats by 11, to a total of 716, ahead of the European elections in June 2024.
Committee on Constitutional Affairs

Source : © European Union, 2023 - EP