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Despite years of work on the Green Deal, there are still no obligations for large companies in all sectors to actually reduce their emissions. The impending Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) offers a unique opportunity to force them to change their business model, writes Uku Lilleväli.

EU-Western Balkans ministerial meeting took place in Brussels gathering the EU’s Foreign Ministers and their counterparts from the Western Balkans.

Interoperable Europe act: Council and Parliament strike a deal for more efficient digital public services across the EU.

Council and Parliament reach provisional agreement on the Critical Raw Material Act.

In view of the situation in Venezuela, the Council today decided exceptionally to extend its restrictive measures for six months only instead of one year, until 14 May 2024.

The Council agrees to an EU law about providing financing of firefighting planes and helicopters to support member states in fighting forest fires.

The Council has adopted new EU rules on the digitalisation of the visa procedure.

Weekly schedule of President Charles Michel, 13-19 November 2023

Press briefing ahead of the upcoming General Affairs Council will take place on 14 November 2023 at 17.00.

The Council has adopted the Farm Sustainability Data Network regulation, aiming to improve the sustainability of the EU’s food systems.

Council adopts revised rules to help combat overfishing in EU waters.

The EU has backed Israel in saying its unprecedented killing of civilians in Gaza is partly due to terrorists' use of "human shields", amid intense debate on the morality of the war.

Europe's defence industry must speed up production for the bloc to meet its target of providing one million ammunition rounds to Ukraine by March, the EU’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell said on Monday (13 November).

MEPs and the Spanish presidency of the Council agreed on plans to boost the supply of strategic raw materials, on Monday.
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

Source : © European Union, 2023 - EP

MEPs and the Spanish presidency of the Council agreed on plans to boost the supply of strategic raw materials, on Monday.
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

Source : © European Union, 2023 - EP

EU member states are still divided on the inclusion of rape as an EU-level crime in the proposed directive on combating violence against women ahead of the third trilogue set to take place on Tuesday (14 November).

The EU’s cybersecurity agency, ENISA, announced on Monday (13 November) that it will work with Ukraine to enhance cybersecurity by exchanging best practices, information sharing, and capacity-building.

Germany saw an average of 10 farms go out of business every day in the last decade, according to the German government's agricultural policy report, which has spurred associations and the opposition to call on the agriculture minister to take action.

With EU elections looming and the fate of a number of key sustainability files up in the air, agrifood stakeholders are facing an uncertain few months. What does this mean for the future shape of EU food policy in the...

The European Commission is currently modelling options for potential changes to college makeup for the next mandate, according to sources, amid calls from agrifood stakeholders for a new Executive Vice-President for Food.