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A tsunami of court cases in the US, coupled with EU plans to restrict toxic PFAS 'forever chemicals' pose a growing risk for investors.

Competitiveness is expected be on the top of the agenda of EU leaders after the EU Commission last week rolled out a series of proposals to boost the bloc's capacity in green tech.

The EU has launched a Hydrogen Bank meant to serve a launchpad for green and low-carbon hydrogen.

Frustration over the lack of cooperation from member states and the European Commission has left MEPs probing spyware in the EU upset and demanding answers.

In many EU member states, access to services is dependent on successful refugee status determination. Until then, asylum seekers may not be able to get housing, education, or jobs and can also face significant barriers to receiving psychosocial support.

Russian soldiers' misogynistic violence in the Ukraine war shows there's a "civilisational clash" going on in Europe, Nobel-winning Ukrainian activist Oleksandra Matviichuk has said.

In the EU, Estonia is one of the exemplary countries which was able to bring the entire country to a different level of digitisation.

Most return flights carried out by the EU's border police Frontex this year will take place in Italy and Germany. The flights are part of wider push to get EU states to use Frontex to return rejected asylum seekers.

The European Parliament proposes prioritising decent working conditions, a new framework for economic governance, with a strong social dimension, and new instruments to measure social inequalities.

On average in the 10 countries surveyed, 29 percent want the war to end as soon as possible, while 38 percent want Ukraine to regain all its territory first — even if that means a longer conflict.

The EU presented its strategy to ensure access to critical raw materials needed for clean technologies. No country should supply more than 65 percent of any key material. Currently, China dominates almost all rare earth metal markets.

The European Commission has delayed publishing its proposal to revise the Reach regulation, a key part of the European Green Deal's chemicals strategy. Centre-right political pressure, backed up by corporate lobbying, seems to have been behind the decision to delay.

EU ammunition-buying plans show Russia and Ukraine are waging an artillery battle of the intensity of World War II's El Alamein.

Toilet paper should be considered as a potentially major source of PFAS entering wastewater treatment systems, new research shows.

The EU Commission is expected to detail its plans on Thursday as part of the Net-Zero Industry Act on industrial incentives, and the Critical Raw Materials Act, which seeks to reduce EU over-reliance on China.

MEPs' call for a directive includes three essential points: coverage above the poverty line, better accessibility, and adequacy, so they reach everyone who is entitled to receive this support.

Airbnb has already patented AI software that can supposedly predict a person's traits and their actions based on data it holds on them from social media. That could determine how much a consumer pays — or even gets a booking.

EU finance ministers agreed on new spending rules, copying much of previously existing rules. One worry is that only three countries — Sweden, Denmark and Luxembourg — could currently afford to meet green commitments while meeting debt and deficit rules.

"It is the truth that Russian aggression targets first," Lithuania's president Gitanas Nausėda warned MEPs in a speech in Strasbourg, adding that "ignoring the past is never a good idea."

'The EU's rules for public procurement are broken. They pave the way to a race to the bottom for working people,' warns the European trade federation representing seven million workers in the service sector