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EPP’s challenge to NGO funding fails amid defections

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 06:00
The text concerns €15 million disbursed annually via the bloc’s LIFE programme for climate and environment groups.
Categories: European Union

Europe one step closer to clean energy as Helsinki ditches coal

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 06:00
The near-complete phase-out of coal puts Finns in a league with countries such as France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Portugal, Slovakia and Sweden.
Categories: European Union

French MP Latombe could become ‘Schrems III’ despite procedural hurdles

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 06:00
The most direct legal threat to the EU-US data transfer agreement, the Latombe-case, could be rejected on procedural grounds even if the agreement is no longer sound. But today's hearing may indicate an unconventional third path.
Categories: European Union

Ribera visits US before dropping EU fines on Big Tech

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 06:00
The Commissioner may get a rare chance to engage with the US on tech policy.
Categories: European Union

Greek exporters push back against Bulgarian 50% national product bill

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 06:00
The move has sparked a strong reaction among neighbouring Greek producers, who said it goes against Europe’s free movement of persons and goods.
Categories: European Union

Animal welfare advocates critical of ‘weak’ AGRI-TRAN draft report [Advocacy Lab Content]

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 03:16
Cross-border travel time, space and temperature inside trucks, are issues neglected in the draft report say animal advocates.
Categories: European Union

Poland’s cervical cancer fight leaps forward with expanded prevention programme

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 02:58
Poland’s cervical cancer prevention programme has been upgraded, offering improved early detection and education to reinforce the importance of women’s health initiatives.
Categories: European Union

A rural energy economy with renewable liquid gas has big climate potential, says report [Advocacy Lab Content]

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 02:48
Ewa Abramiuk-Lété, general manager of Liquid Gas Europe, says new data shows that with the right policy framework, Europe could produce up to 350 TWh of renewable liquid gas by 2050 by working with rural areas.
Categories: European Union

The moment of truth. Italian newspaper lets AI write and publish entire edition

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 02:25
Il Foglio's AI experiment highlights the direction of newsroom efficiency. AI in journalism could free journalists for more in-depth reporting, or it could further aggregate low-cost content.
Categories: European Union

Bulgaria’s free heart disease drug scheme significantly reduces hospitalisations

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 01:55
The added longevity resulting from the medication scheme and its improved level of treatment adherence, amounts to 5.25 years per patient, claims the Bulgarian health insurance agency, NHIF.
Categories: European Union

Commission long-term plan on medical countermeasures expected in June

Mon, 03/31/2025 - 19:42
The planned medical countermeasures strategy will also likely be discussed in the European Parliament on Tuesday.
Categories: European Union

The Brief – ‘Je suis Marine Le Pen’

Mon, 03/31/2025 - 18:32
Attacks on France's judicial independence have already begun – and they started long before today’s ruling.
Categories: European Union

Belgium bans display of tobacco in shops amid wave of anti-smoking laws

Mon, 03/31/2025 - 18:27
In January, the country also became the first in the EU to ban disposable vapes, citing environmental and health concerns.
Categories: European Union

UK fishers warn government against concessions to ‘bullying’ EU politicians 

Mon, 03/31/2025 - 17:43
Swedish EU Affairs Minister Jessica Rosencrantz, like other EU ministers, said she would like to see fisheries linked to an EU-UK security pact.  
Categories: European Union

France targets pesticide pollution in new water strategy

Mon, 03/31/2025 - 17:22
The timing of the French roadmap is no coincidence, as the European Commission announced its intention to present an EU Water Resilience Strategy in the second quarter of 2025.
Categories: European Union

Japan’s version of Digital Markets Act designates its gatekeepers

Mon, 03/31/2025 - 16:09
In Japan, 40 million people in a country of 120 million have to be using a platform in order for it to be designated a dominant player.
Categories: European Union

EU-Thailand trade talks resume as Spain worries about tuna sector

Mon, 03/31/2025 - 15:46
Alfonso Rueda, president of the government of Galicia, said he would fight to prevent the liberalisation of tuna imports as part of the free trade agreement.
Categories: European Union

European companies lead fleet electrification efforts

Mon, 03/31/2025 - 15:41
To speed up the transition, the companies are hoping for an extra push from Brussels.
Categories: European Union

Can ageing Germany scrounge up enough workers to pull off the green transition?

Mon, 03/31/2025 - 14:32
The country currently lacks more than 200,000 skilled workers in STEM fields for the renewable sector – a shortage likely to get worse in the future.
Categories: European Union

Apple receives antitrust fine in France for “ask app not to track” framework

Mon, 03/31/2025 - 14:02
After preliminary findings in Germany, France went a step further in finding that Apple broke the law.
Categories: European Union

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