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French winegrowers protest cheap imports destroy crates at the Spanish border

Fri, 20/10/2023 - 07:02
Hundreds of French wine producers blocked the motorway at the Spanish border and unloaded lorries carrying Spanish cava juice, destroying the contents and pouring wine across the border in a protest for government support against cheap alcoholic beverages from abroad....
Categories: European Union

Vienna calls crisis meeting over Middle East situation

Fri, 20/10/2023 - 07:02
The government in Vienna will convene a crisis meeting on Friday morning to discuss the Hamas-Israel conflict, and the conflict’s impact on security in Austria. In the face of the “drastic development of the security situation in the Middle East,...
Categories: European Union

Scholz slams Meloni, Sunak: Migration deals more important than ‘tough talk’

Fri, 20/10/2023 - 07:01
Repatriation deals with third countries are the game changer that will help EU countries reduce the number of migrants, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz claimed on Thursday while hitting out at right-wing leaders who “claim they can expel migrants with tough...
Categories: European Union

Global Encryption Day 2023: Encryption Empowers Our Lives [Promoted content]

Fri, 20/10/2023 - 07:00
Global Encryption Day (21 October) spotlights the importance of end-to-end encryption in our digital lives. Encryption must be celebrated, not weakened, as could be the case through the European Commission's proposal to combat online child sexual abuse.
Categories: European Union

Next EU sanctions on Russia must target Putin’s strategic energy projects

Fri, 20/10/2023 - 07:00
Media investigations have revealed how European companies continued to provide hardware and services to a massive new gas project in Siberia, despite Western sanctions imposed on Moscow for its war in Ukraine. The next round of EU sanctions must put an end to this, write Oleh Stavinsky and Zoe Reiter.
Categories: European Union

Biden to seek billions in military aid for Israel as invasion of Gaza nears

Fri, 20/10/2023 - 06:55
US President Joe Biden asked Americans to spend billions more dollars to help Israel fight Hamas while Israel's defence chief told his troops to be ready to go into the Gaza Strip to destroy the Palestinian militant group.
Categories: European Union

Bulgarian government: ‘Interest’ in buying Lukoil refinery

Fri, 20/10/2023 - 06:42
Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov confirmed on Thursday that there is interest in the sale of Lukoil Neftochim Burgas, which is the largest refinery in the Balkans and is managed by the Russian company Lukoil through its company in Switzerland – Litasco.
Categories: European Union

Slovakia’s Fico to miss out on October EU summit if he sticks with a climate denier

Fri, 20/10/2023 - 06:42
President Zuzana Čaputová refused Robert Fico’s nominee for the position of environment minister, meaning he will have to come up with an alternative if he wants to meet his goal of attending the European Council Summit on 26-27 October. 
Categories: European Union

Industrial energy users push for subsidies ahead of German government meeting

Fri, 20/10/2023 - 06:40
Representatives of energy-intensive industries have urged the government to decide on subsidies for electricity prices, which, while strongly discouraged by economists, will be the point of discussion in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s discussions with government leaders.
Categories: European Union

Former jihadists found working in Swedish schools

Fri, 20/10/2023 - 06:36
According to an investigation, leisure centres, preschools, and social services are among the places where former ISIS jihadists are now working, prompting Liberal Education Minister Lotta Edholm to call Sweden’s policy on the return and control of former Swedish Islamist...
Categories: European Union

Masterminds of 7 October attack top Israel’s hit list

Fri, 20/10/2023 - 06:27
Israel has threatened that every Hamas member faces death when it invades Gaza but two accused masterminds of the 7 October attacks are at the top of its hit list.
Categories: European Union

EU lawmaker: Commission should not fear ‘power struggle’ with China on fisheries

Thu, 19/10/2023 - 19:26
The EU executive should not fear embarking on a "power struggle" with China to ensure good fishing practices, the chair of the European Parliament's fisheries committee Pierre Karleskind told Euractiv in an interview.
Categories: European Union

No progress made on youth empowerment in Europe since 2018, report finds

Thu, 19/10/2023 - 19:06
There has been no progress in the areas of wellbeing, access to rights and quality of living for young people since 2018, according to the Youth Progress Index, presented by the European Youth Forum on Wednesday (18 October). 
Categories: European Union

AI Act: EU Parliament’s legal office gives damning opinion on high-risk classification ‘filters’

Thu, 19/10/2023 - 18:29
EU policymakers have been discussing some filter conditions that would enable AI developers to avoid complying with the EU Artificial Intelligence’s law stricter regime. But this political compromise is running into significant legal troubles.
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Borrell attacks show that war and party politics are an uneasy mix

Thu, 19/10/2023 - 16:36
Wars and partisan politicking are seldom a good mix. But that has not stopped EPP leader Manfred Weber from strongly criticising Josep Borrell’s response to Hamas’ terror attack that killed more than 1400 people.
Categories: European Union

Mahsa Amini, women’s movement in Iran win EU’s Sakharov freedom prize

Thu, 19/10/2023 - 16:29
The European Union parliament awarded its annual Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Iranian woman Mahsa Amini who died in police custody last year and the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement in Iran, it said on Thursday (19 October).
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The Brief – Brace for the Hungarian EU presidency

Thu, 19/10/2023 - 16:19
Analyse this: On 6 June, we will vote in the European elections. And on 1 July, Hungary will take over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU, giving a big role to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán just when the top EU jobs for the next five years will be decided.
Categories: European Union

Green investors warn EU against rollback of climate policies

Thu, 19/10/2023 - 16:13
Despite the transition to climate neutrality creating frictions in the short-term, politicians should not change course, investors in green technologies said, asking for clear signals that the transition will be followed through.
Categories: European Union

Russia detains Radio Free Europe journalist with dual citizenship

Thu, 19/10/2023 - 16:02
Russia has detained an editor at US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) for failing to register as a foreign agent while visiting Russia for a family emergency, the broadcaster said.
Categories: European Union

EU countries criticised for patching up healthcare gaps through migration

Thu, 19/10/2023 - 15:05
EU countries recruiting foreign healthcare staff to address shortages, rather than investing in domestic workforce development, may weaken the EU's international health cooperation efforts, an EU Commission official warned. 
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