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Tetiana Yehorova-Lutsenko is Kharkiv's regional council leader. Along with her two boys, they hid in a basement for two weeks amid Russian aerial bombardment. On Wednesday, she met Ukrainian refugees at a Polish train station.

The war in Ukraine has turned attention to the long-standing ties between some European political parties and the Russian government.

European lawmakers urged the EU Commission and governments to act on Hungary after the EU executive said it would start a legal probe against the Orbán government which could lead to the suspension of EU funds.

The EU's standardisation strategy is trying to prevent the lagging of European companies but might open the door for the regionalisation of international standards.

Media are invited to the plenary session of the Conference on the Future of Europe taking place on 8-9 April in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Committee on Constitutional Affairs

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Media are invited to the plenary session of the Conference on the Future of Europe taking place on 8-9 April in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Committee on Constitutional Affairs

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Human Rights Watch refugee programme director reflects on 14 years of progress in Greece's treatment of migrants — and finds things have gone backwards.

Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine and the return of war to the European continent served to sharpen the needle of the EU's Strategic Compass, write Kajsa Ollongren, Ludivine Dedonder and François Bausch.

Hungary said on Wednesday (6 April) it was prepared to pay roubles for Russian gas, breaking ranks with the European Union which has sought a united front in opposing Moscow’s demand for payment in the currency. Hungary will pay for...

Vadym Boichenko, mayor of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol under siege since early March, said on Wednesday that Russian troops had begun incinerating the bodies of people killed in the city using mobile crematoria. "The killers are covering their tracks," he said on the city council's Telegram channel. Boichenko, citing eyewitnesses, said special special brigades formed by "collaborators" inside the city were used to carry out the work.

The raucous celebrations by Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party on Sunday night in Budapest were matched only by the deafening silence from Brussels. EU leaders normally queue up to congratulate each other on an election success.

Europe set up a rapid decontamination team to protect Ukraine and EU member countries against chemical, biological or nuclear attacks, and sent three million potassium iodide tablets to Ukraine, amid safety worries over the safety the country's nuclear facilities.

The German government presented on Wednesday (6 April) a comprehensive revamp of the country's electricity sector, outlining new frameworks for renewables, power grids and markets in order to set the country on track to reach climate neutrality.

With just four days to go before the first round of the French presidential election, many left-wing voters still wonder whether they should bend some of their beliefs and support far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the only viable candidate on the left likely to be able to hold back the far-right

Hungary is open to pay in rouble for gas deliveries to Russia, the country's prime minister Viktor Orbán said at a press conference on Wednesday. "If the Russians want to be paid in rouble, we will pay in rouble," he said. The move would mean Hungary is breaking ranks with the EU which has sought a united front in opposing Moscow's demand for payment in the currency.

Decisions made in 2020 during the COVID-19 emergency are starting “to bear fruit” for the EU’s health union, as the case of reinforcing the European Medicines Agency (EMA) shows.

Two top EU health bodies announced on Wednesday (6 April) that an outbreak caused by Salmonella is rapidly evolving in six European Union countries, Norway, and the United Kingdom (UK), with Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs identified as the likely route of infection. 

The European Commission unveiled plans on Tuesday (5 April) to cut its own greenhouse gas emissions by 60% before the end of the decade, saying the remainder will be compensated with carbon removals.

New EU data sharing legislation will stimulate innovation and help start-ups and businesses use big data.

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New EU data sharing legislation will stimulate innovation and help start-ups and businesses use big data.

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