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The second online European Citizens’ Panel, focusing on European democracy / values and rights, the rule of law, and security, will meet on 12-14 November.
Committee on Constitutional Affairs

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The second online European Citizens’ Panel, focusing on European democracy / values and rights, the rule of law, and security, will meet on 12-14 November.
Committee on Constitutional Affairs

Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP

The World Climate Change Conference in Glasgow ends tomorrow. According to the current draft of the final declaration, the phasing out of coal is to be accelerated and subsidies for fossil fuels are to be slashed. Emissions harmful to the climate are to be reduced by 45 percent by 2030 and to net zero by the middle of the century in a bid to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees. Europe's press wonders how all these targets are supposed to be achieved.

A fiery exchange took place during a press conference in Athens on Tuesday: Journalist Ingeborg Beugel started a question she was putting to Prime Minister Mitsotakis by accusing him of lying about illegal pushbacks of refugees by the Greek authorities. Mitsotakis responded angrily that he would not allow the Greek people to be insulted with unproven accusations.

The Czech Ministry of Health is resorting to drastic measures to make anti-vaxxers change their minds: one campaign uses photos featuring a dead intensive care patient being lifted into a body bag, accompanied by a text saying: "He had a lot of excuses". Another image shows a coffin and the words: "She kept postponing vaccination". Can these heavy-handed tactics convince the Czechs?

Environmental and health organisations across the EU have called for action on agrochemical data 'blind spots' in an open letter, saying that it undermines the EU’s green goals and fuels mistrust in society.