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The construction of an expanded electricity line connecting Germany and Austria has begun, with the €600 million investment expected to increase grid stability and help provide cheaper power to industry in the region.

The European Commission and Germany’s Digital and Transport Ministry are confident an agreement on the EU combustion engine ban can be reached, after a call between Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP/Renew Europe) and EU Climate Chief Frans Timmermans on Thursday....

The decision to liberalise visas for citizens of Kosovo was approved by the 27 EU ministers at the Council of Internal Affairs in Brussels on Thursday, which must come into effect no later than 1 January 2024. Kosovo was the...

Poland is ready to deliver its MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine as part of an international coalition, President Andrzej Duda told CNN in Abu Dhabi on Thursday, adding that Ukrainian pilots will need to be trained to operate them. Poland...

A gunman believed to have been acting alone killed several people on Thursday (9 March) in a Jehovah's Witness church in the German city of Hamburg, police said, as they focussed their investigation on the motive for the attack.

Meat consumers who care about the environment must choose Swedish meat, said Agriculture Minister Peter Kullgren, while Swedish experts believe the problem with meat lies elsewhere.

The new migration deal that will be used to ‘solve’ the migration crisis was presented by Prime minister Alexander De Croo and Asylum and Migration State Secretary Nicole de Moor during a press conference on Wednesday. Belgium was previously condemned...

In a bid to further the EU's energy independence, the European Commission has announced an action plan in the coming months to boost the manufacturing and deployment of heat pumps in Europe.

EU migration ministers have vowed to agree a common position on two key files in the proposed Immigration and Asylum Pact in a bid to finally overhaul the bloc’s rules before next May’s European elections. 

Mary Lawlor, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, says she has "serious concerns" about Greek criminal investigations into people who help migrants and asylum seekers.

Spokespersons for Parliament and for political groups will hold a briefing on the 13 - 16 March plenary session on Friday at 11.00, in Parliament’s Anna Politkovskaya press room.

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Spokespersons for Parliament and for political groups will hold a briefing on the 13 - 16 March plenary session on Friday at 11.00, in Parliament’s Anna Politkovskaya press room.

Source : © European Union, 2023 - EP

Germany will “acknowledge and not oppose” plans to recognise the contribution nuclear energy is making to the EU’s decarbonisation objective, a special advisor to the German Chancellor said on Thursday (9 March).

The emergency use of all banned plant protection products in the EU could soon be a thing of the past, according to the European Commission’s initial reading of the recent EU court ruling involving specifically bee-toxic pesticides.

Newsletter - 13-16 March 2023 - Strasbourg plenary session

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The European Parliament's Industry committee voted Thursday (9 March) in favour of MEP Henna Virkkunen’s draft report proposing introducing common cybersecurity standards across EU institutions, paving the way for starting trilogue negotiations.

Belarus is clearly a co-belligerent country in Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine. But why is the EU so soft on Aleksander Lukashenko, often labelled Europe’s "last dictator"?

France and the UK are set to meet in a bid to mend relations between Western Europe's biggest military and diplomatic powers after years of post-Brexit tensions and animosity over the AUKUS security pact between the UK, US, and Australia.

In Brussels, the European elections started earlier this year. But it was practically only here, in the capital of the European Institutions, that this was noticed. In the member states few are aware of the various movements taking place, with the exception of those who want to be part of the lists and of those who decide who is in and who stays out.

Dear readers, Welcome to EU Politics Decoded where Benjamin Fox and Eleonora Vasques bring you a round-up of the latest political news in Europe and beyond every Thursday. In this edition, we explain how the uses of the Temporary Protection...