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According to the country's general prosecutor, the new system fails to achieve its deterrent or rehabilitative goals

Finance ministers' love for electricity taxes is keeping prices high

The leader of the progressive-centrist D66 party told Euractiv the Netherlands must back Ukraine “no matter what”

The GreenLeft-Labour alliance also underperformed expectations, prompting its leader, Frans Timmermans, to announce his resignation

The Commission ‘is failing to recognise the strategic importance of the heating sector at a crucial time’, a lobbyist said

What will EU defence look like? It's a question of commitment, coordination, and cash. But right now it looks like confusingly similar acronyms flying around the Brussels Bubble

Erdoğan seeks progress on long-stalled issues: modernising the EU–Turkey customs union and advancing visa-free travel for Turkish citizens

Second package planned for 2026 with wider industrial and internal-market focus

Patients and pharma industry were left on edge as party leaders clashed on health expenditure

DRAFT REPORT on Global Gateway -– past impacts and future orientation
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Committee on Development
Hildegard Bentele, Chloé Ridel

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Polish generic and innovative medicines industries are warning new rules breach EU principles and could undermine competitiveness and medicine access

Pharma groups push for fast-track approvals as part of Europe’s future crisis readiness

EU split over how much climate action should happen at home versus abroad

Findings carry EU-wide relevance as Brussels tightens rules on these insecticides

Most EU countries said the rules should not take effect at the end of December

Talks set to resume next week after earlier clash between the two institutions

The EU-level organisation – led by France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands – will develop open source alternatives in key areas like AI, cloud, and social networks

The French MP tells Euractiv he will seek to overturn the lower court's assessment of the validity of transatlantic data flows

As AI rewrites the rules of journalism, critical literacy has never mattered more

MEPs are unhappy about the EU's executive decision to scrap a reform proposal on Standards Essential Patents