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Commission fails to meet first major AI Act deadline

Mon, 02/03/2025 - 06:00

While companies cite the need for legal certainty, NGOs have raised potential human rights concerns.

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Categories: European Union

Game of Chequers: Starmer, Scholz and the ‘British paradox’

Mon, 02/03/2025 - 00:21

Despite Keir Starmer's prolonged EU diplomacy blitz, a 'reset' of relations will take a long time to bear fruit.

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Categories: European Union

AI, new strategies could fast-track cerebral palsy detection, says award-winning researcher [Advocacy Lab Content]

Mon, 02/03/2025 - 00:03

Innovative solutions are driving change in the early diagnosis and intervention of cerebral palsy. Integrating AI into diagnostics and advancing research into neuroplasticity is finally engaging policymakers.

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Categories: European Union

Denmark strengthens nicotine and alcohol prevention to protect youth

Sun, 02/02/2025 - 23:47

Nightlife zones have been introduced in Denmark. No products with an alcoholic strength by volume of more than 6% can be sold to 16-17-year-olds. Stricter nicotine regulations take effect this summer.

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Categories: European Union

Early detection means early intervention – how Europe is advancing cerebral palsy diagnosis [Advocacy Lab Content]

Sun, 02/02/2025 - 23:37

Despite advances in neonatal care, cerebral palsy is often diagnosed too late, with the average age of diagnosis at around 18 months. New EU projects aim to change that.

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Categories: European Union

France appoints new ambassador to Moscow after months of vacancy

Sun, 02/02/2025 - 16:02

Nicolas de Rivière's nomination has been in the works for months, at a time when French-Russian relations are at an all-time low.

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Categories: European Union

Hungary wants Trump deal before Russia sanctions extension

Sun, 02/02/2025 - 15:27

Only with Washington’s blessing is Budapest willing to extend sanctions against Russia. 

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Categories: European Union

Belgium gets new nationalist-led government 

Sat, 02/01/2025 - 13:35

With its new government, Belgium joins a growing list of European countries led by nationalist forces such as Meloni's Italy and Orban's Hungary.

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Categories: European Union

EU silent as protests in Serbia gain momentum

Sat, 02/01/2025 - 12:32

While von Ursula von der Leyen has not hesitated to express support for “the Georgian people fighting for democracy", she has remained remarkably quiet about the uprising in Serbia.

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Categories: European Union

Czechia introduces new abdominal aortic aneurysm screening programme

Sat, 02/01/2025 - 12:14

Estimates indicate that a well-established screening programme could prevent up to 100 deaths from abdominal aortic aneurysms each year.

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Categories: European Union

Swedish government invests €6,5 million to address health capacity shortages

Sat, 02/01/2025 - 12:06

Swedish doctors' union fear proposed one-time medical interventions could crowd out priority operations.

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Categories: European Union

Still no sign of deal on EU prosecutor powers after Warsaw talks

Sat, 02/01/2025 - 09:58

Some EU member states, including Poland, want to give Laura Codruța Kövesi powers to prosecute those who evade sanctions on Russia.

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Categories: European Union

Arctic on fire: Euractiv’s Greenland liveblog

Fri, 01/31/2025 - 18:33

A fight over the future of the world's biggest island is turning up the heat between Nuuk, Copenhagen, Brussels and Washington.

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Categories: European Union

The Brief – Orbán wants his Trump back

Fri, 01/31/2025 - 17:40

But his golden age with Trump may already be over.

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Categories: European Union

Germany set to turn the page on biogas

Fri, 01/31/2025 - 17:24

Germany has pushed the issue onto the international agenda, while at home, biogas plants are being scaled back.

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Categories: European Union

Portugal’s controversial zoning law teeters as politician resigns

Fri, 01/31/2025 - 17:01

The secretary of state responsible for a law that will see houses built on previously 'green' land was forced to resign following reports that he set up two real estate companies while working on the law.

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Categories: European Union

Slovakia’s Fico again accuses Czech diplomats and media of interference

Fri, 01/31/2025 - 16:36

Fico made the comments directly to the Czech ambassador, which Czechia's prime minister described as "absurd".

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Categories: European Union

A Japan-style game plan to save Europe’s auto industry?

Fri, 01/31/2025 - 15:20

"If left alone, we could have wiped out the US' total auto industry,” a Japanese speaker said at Davos. “But at the time, we understood politics"

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Categories: European Union

New study doubles EU wind power potential

Fri, 01/31/2025 - 15:13

France and Spain alone could generate enough electricity equivalent to the EU's projected 2050 demand of around 4,000 TWh.

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Categories: European Union

12 EU countries urge Commission do more against election interference

Fri, 01/31/2025 - 15:00

But the Commission will not accelerate ongoing investigations under the Digital Services Act, a spokesperson said on Friday.

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Categories: European Union

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