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A European Commission spokesperson told reporters in Brussels that they first need "to see what the state of emergency implies", noting that it is Italy's national competence to make such declarations.

"Each morning, I see at least seven fish dead from pollution," says Abraham Npkor, a fisherman from Rumuekpe in Rivers State, southern Nigeria. He claims even those he can still bring to the market now "have an odour."

The fossil fuel industry knows that the days of outright denying climate change are over. Polluting companies have since shifted their focus to hyping new technologies that promise to reduce emissions without affecting their business model.

Developing nations are facing mounting debt troubles as a combination of high-interest rates, maturing bonds and sluggish global growth threaten to push vulnerable economies into default.

The EU Commission has defended its handling of China diplomacy following a PR "disaster" on a mini-summit in Beijing.

More services and less industry, more young people in new sectors, plus seasonal working, mark a long-term decline in trade union activity across Europe — despite the recent boom in strikes and stoppages driven by the cost-of-living crisis.

The EU deforestation regulation is about how to force other nations, especially in the Gobal South, to follow EU rules to protect its own products — and is not about real concern for the environment, writes Indonesia's ambassador to Germany.

Malta refused to help rescue hundreds of people on a fishing boat in distress in their regional waters, according to campaigners.

The Chinese leader also said "legitimate security concerns of all parties" should be considered, echoing Moscow's argument that it attacked Ukraine because of the eastward expansion of Nato.

In a non-paper to the EU Commission, Germany pushed for one-size-fits-all fiscal rules that limit government spending to a "common benchmark" — which experts warn could limit EU green investments.

Not one Council of Europe country refers to people with disabilities in their mitigation policies, and they are consistently under-represented and not meaningfully consulted or invited to participate in climate policymaking decisions.

Overall EU gas supplies from Russia are at all-time lows, but imports of Russian liquid gas have jumped over 30 percent despite the Ukraine war.

European PhD students face low salaries, poor working conditions, and a lack of formal contracts and social protection.

Zelensky visited Poland at a delicate time as Ukrainian grain has been pushing down prices in Poland and in several countries in the eastern flank of the EU.

It's high time we escaped the barbed-wire-fenced private domains of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. You don't need to search long for a key — at least if you know where to look.

Europe's most powerful political group has been embarrassed by a police raid over an alleged kick-back scheme in the last EU elections.

Some argue that these are merely language models working with probabilities, that they have no human intelligence. But users do not care how these models generate language. They perceive it as human-like and they will often perceive it as authoritative.

Europe's consumers cut gas use by 20 percent to help the war effort — but it was also the second-warmest winter in history, and the EU can't afford to spend €700bn in state subsidies every winter.

Frontex officers regularly interrogate asylum seekers to glean information of possible smuggling and trafficking suspects. This is then shared with the EU's police agency, Europol. Frontex says it has over 1,000 documents linked to those interrogations where NGOs appear.

With the current approach, Brussels has wasted countless hours and funds with little to show for it. There is still room for agreement to be found, one that would finally bring Serbia and Kosovo into the European family.