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The annual inflation rate rose to 10% in November after having briefly dropped below double digits for the first time in months. Prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages, which were up by 19%, were the single biggest contributors, accounting for...

Dozens of Bulgarian Foreign Ministry employees went on a one-hour effective strike on Wednesday to demand higher salaries. The employees tossed yellow pennies at the ministry’s headquarters to express their disapproval of their low wages. Employees at the ministry are...

EU lawmakers on Wednesday (30 November) finalised a law that will allow the bloc to take retaliatory measures including sanctions against the UK if it refuses to implement the terms of the Brexit agreement.  

Investors managing $8 trillion in assets have written to the world's biggest chemicals companies urging them to phase out the use of so-called forever chemicals that can accumulate in the environment and remain hazardous for generations.

Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party voted to raise Poland’s public broadcaster TVP to over PLN 2 billion (€428 million) in the parliamentary public finance committee, which opposition representatives see as hidden financing of the election campaign. PiS wants...

Portugal has frozen about €18 million in assets of people on the EU’s Russian sanctions list, Portuguese Foreign Affairs Minister João Gomes Cravinho said on Wednesday. “We in Portugal have assets seized, frozen, assets of people who are on the...

After eight people lost their lives in a landslide that destroyed a village on the island of Ischia, the government is announcing major measures to remedy hydrogeological instability.

The Netherlands is confident that it can reach national gas storage targets set by the European Commission to ensure the security of supply next winter.

French MEP Pascal Durand left the Parliament’s Renew Europe group over strong personal disagreements, he said on Wednesday, adding that he stands opposed to the Swedish Liberals’ presence in the group despite their agreement with the far-right at a national...

China provides EU scientists with money in return for the outcomes of their research, experts focusing on Chinese influence in Europe warn, highlighting the risks associated with handing over dual civil-military technologies that could be used to modernise Beijing’s military...

The trial of a Vietnamese man who was allegedly abducted in 2017 was reopened by the Slovak National Criminal Agency, which launched an investigation into corruption connected to the abduction after a second suspect went on trial in Germany. Vietnamese...

No lives were lost on Spanish soil, said Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, who rejected accusations against the country’s security forces that insist they failed to prevent dozens of migrant deaths including one on Spanish soil during the Melilla tragedy....

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called on Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Cavusoglu not to take any measures towards further escalation after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatened to launch a ground offensive in Northern Syria. Baerbock said she had called on Turkey...

Media are invited to Parliament’s premises in Brussels, where citizens will discuss recent and upcoming initiatives with high-level representatives of the EU institutions.

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Media are invited to Parliament’s premises in Brussels, where citizens will discuss recent and upcoming initiatives with high-level representatives of the EU institutions.

Source : © European Union, 2022 - EP

Rapporteur on the Generalised Scheme of Preferences Heidi Hautala (Greens/EFA, FI) issued the following statement on Wednesday after Council’s failure to agree on its negotiating position.
Committee on International Trade

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Rapporteur on the Generalised Scheme of Preferences Heidi Hautala (Greens/EFA, FI) issued the following statement on Wednesday after Council’s failure to agree on its negotiating position.
Committee on International Trade

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The EU Council, Parliament and Commission reached a political agreement on new legislation enabling law enforcement agencies to obtain electronic evidence stored in another member state on Tuesday evening (29 November).

A new EU packaging law proposal has sparked major concerns among the EU food industry, who warn it is unworkable for food business operators - but NGOs slammed heavy industry lobbying for watering down the proposal.