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Upper Austria will implement a fully-fledged lockdown for the unvaccinated from Monday (15 November), it was announced on Thursday (11 November). The announcement comes one day after the state’s governor, Thomas Stelzer, reportedly said on Wednesday that “nobody needs a...

The Bulgarian Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) has accused Lukoil Bulgaria of abusing its dominant position in the country’s fuel market following an investigation. The CPC investigation into the Russian oil company began on a warning from another leading European company...

Czechia has to phase out coal as soon as possible to meet European climate goals. However, the transition to a green economy is still far from becoming a reality. “In practice, the Czech Republic has not yet succeeded in establishing...

The EU should not fund nuclear energy projects because they are unsafe, unsustainable, and cost a lot of money, Environment and Climate Action Minister, João Pedro Matos Fernandes, said at an event on the sidelines of the COP26 UN climate summit...

As the German conservatives CDU continue to reel from their worst-ever election defeat in the September elections, Helge Braun, a long-time Merkel ally and acting minister of the chancellery, and foreign policy expert Norbert Röttgen, have emerged as the first...

Sanctions regime against unauthorised drilling activities in the Eastern Mediterranean extended by one year until 12 November 2022.

France urged EU partners on Thursday to proceed more firmly and cautiously with trade negotiations, while denying it was blocking the conclusion of any deal before its presidential election in April.

Péter Márki-Zay said winning will be an uphill battle, as Viktor Orbán's moves to redraw constituencies, stifle free media, erode the independence of the judiciary, and "unlimited" financial resources, all favour the illiberal incumbent.

While the EU maintains that ethanol has a role to play in Europe’s shift to clean transport, the production of ethanol is damaging the environment and hurting local communities in South America, argues Laura Hieber of Friends of the Earth Europe.

The current stand-off at the Belarus-Polish border will enter geopolitics textbooks. At least we hope so, because the alternative is that it might trigger an outright war, and then we will forget about textbooks.

The European Commission's ambition to tie the EU's farming subsidies programme to the European Green Deal is set to fall victim to pressure from member states in a behind-closed-doors procedure.

A new draft EU law will ensure a minimum level of wage protection in all member states, in order to guarantee decent living standards for workers and their families.
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP

A new draft EU law will ensure a minimum level of wage protection in all member states, in order to guarantee decent living standards for workers and their families.
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP

Countries bordering Belarus expressed concern on Thursday (11 November) that a crisis over growing numbers of migrants trying to break through its frontiers into the European Union could escalate into a military confrontation. Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia condemned “the deliberate...

The European Parliament plenary voted on Thursday (11 November) for transparency, close cooperation and an in-depth review of HERA operations, aligning the new EU health emergency body with the future regulation on cross-border health threats.

The European Union is considering imposing sanctions on Belarus' main airport in a bid to make it more difficult for airlines to bring in migrants and exacerbate a crisis on the bloc's borders, two diplomats said on Thursday (11 November).

The European Parliament overwhelmingly endorsed a resolution to protect journalists and critical voices from abusive lawsuits, otherwise known as Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP), in a vote on Thursday (11 November).

Patient access to the same high standards of care should be at the core of the re-thinking process of health systems after the pandemic, according to Romanian Liberal MEP Nicolae Ștefănuță.

Stakeholders and policymakers are deep in a process of drawing lessons from the pandemic, which exposed flaws in the EU’s health systems. But what did we learn?

The euro zone economy will grow faster than previously expected this year as it recovers from the pandemic-induced recession and continue to expand strongly in 2022 with deficits and public debt falling, the European Commission forecast on Thursday.