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Holding the EU council presidency for six months, will Tusk's camp get the presidency too?

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As Sauli Niniistö wrote, war preperation should become strategy in 2025.

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US President Joe Biden denounced the "outrageous" attack and said he had asked the US Defense Department to push forward with a new surge of military aid to Kyiv.

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The Republika Srpska assembly wants its representatives to boycott votes in joint state bodies until what it claims is a "politically motivated process" against its leader Milorad Dodik is ended.

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In this episode, join host Giada Santana and economy and transport reporter Jonathan Packroff as they dive into MFF’s current challenges, regional stakeholders' perspectives, and what the future might hold.

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Azerbaijan Airlines said the Embraer 190 jet, with flight number J2-8243, was flying from Baku to Grozny, capital of Russia's Chechnya region, but had been forced to make an emergency landing around 3 km from Aktau in Kazakhstan.

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The majority of humanitarian funding comes from just three wealthy donors: the US, Germany and the European Commission.

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Oboronligistica, a company part of the Defence ministry, said the ship was carrying specialised port cranes due to be installed at the port of Vladivostok as well as parts for new ice-breakers.

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The range of realistic outcomes has probably never been so wide, an analyst said.

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2024 has seen Italy slide further right, but Meloni remains unscathed, for now.

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"We can be proud that, despite the challenges, we have managed to be on the right side of history," Maia Sandu said while taking the oath before parliament and the Constitutional Court.

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“The explosion was due to a technical issue. There is no possibility of sabotage,” the governor of the province said.

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Kazakhstan has become a regional leader in green initiatives with a carbon neutrality strategy for 2060, despite starting as the region’s largest coal polluter.

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An early Christmas gift? New ministers responsible for health-related portfolios take office on 24 December.

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The new minister will certainly have his work cut out for him.

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Written by Ivana Katsarova.

Although origin labelling for food cannot be directly linked to a product’s intrinsic quality, consumers are increasingly interested in local food systems and in short supply chains. While the easiest way to convey origin information is through labelling, European Union (EU) law requires the display of such information only for a limited number of food products. EU consumers and consumer groups have long advocated greater transparency on food product origins.

In force since December 2014, the EU regulation on the provision of food information to consumers updated and harmonised food labelling requirements, set harmonised rules for the presentation of allergen information and tightened up the rules to prevent misleading practices. The regulation allows EU countries to adopt additional national measures concerning the mandatory labelling of food products, as long as these are justified by reasons specifically defined in the regulation.

Indicating the country of origin is currently mandatory for certain food products, such as fresh fruit and vegetables, fishery products, honey, olive oil, eggs, beef and beef products, unprocessed meat of swine, sheep, goat and poultry and the primary ingredient of a food when it differs from the origin given for the product as a whole. In the absence of EU rules, some EU countries have enacted national legislation requiring mandatory origin labelling for certain categories of foods.

As part of its ‘farm to fork’ strategy, adopted in 2020, the Commission intended to revise existing rules to extend the mandatory indication of origin to more categories of food products. However, such a proposal never emerged, and if or when it will be put forward remains unclear.

Read the complete briefing on ‘Food origin labelling: Developments and issues‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.

Brace yourselves.

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Less 'green' and more 'clean'.

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Lawrence Gostin, professor of global health at Georgetown University in Washington said that Trump planned to exit WHO from day one or very early in his administration.

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"For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the USA feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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