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Hungary to build Budapest campus of Chinese university with Chinese loan

Thu, 22/04/2021 - 16:26
The Hungarian government is planning to build a Budapest campus of the Chinese Fudan University with Chinese contractors, financed by a €1.25 billion loan from China, it emerged this month. The controversial project has sparked a row between the Hungarian government and the municipality of Budapest. EURACTIV's media partner Telex takes a closer look.
Categories: European Union

Electrify key highways to accelerate shift to battery-powered trucks: report

Thu, 22/04/2021 - 16:14
A modest investment into charging infrastructure along major European motorways could herald a shift to low-carbon electric road freight over long distances, according to a new report by the green NGO Transport & Environment (T&E).
Categories: European Union

Germany seeking to buy 30 million Sputnik doses from Russia

Thu, 22/04/2021 - 15:58
Germany is in talks with Russia to buy 30 million doses of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, said Saxony state premier Michael Kretschmer who discussed the issue with President Vladimir Putin on Thursday (22 April).
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Hungarian civil society raises alarm over NGO law change

Thu, 22/04/2021 - 15:55
Hungarian civil society organisations have expressed concern over planned changes to legislation on non-governmental organisations (NGOs), despite cautiously welcoming the repeal of a law on transparency that curbed foreign-funded NGOs.
Categories: European Union

Climate law decisions and the phantom paper rocking the Western Balkans

Thu, 22/04/2021 - 15:06
  This week on EURACTIV’s Yellow Room, we are talking about the outcomes of the climate law negotiations that concluded on Wednesday morning – the EU and US goals, the reactions, and what the future has in store. To find...
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US Ambassador to Belarus stranded in Vilnius: ‘Goal remains getting to Minsk’

Thu, 22/04/2021 - 14:37
After it was announced last year that Belarus would get a US ambassador after a 13-year hiatus, the new US ambassador to Minsk Julie Fisher was denied entry and is based currently in Vilnius, from where she spoke to EURACTIV's partner LRT.lt.
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Own academy could help EU’s diplomatic service find its footing

Thu, 22/04/2021 - 13:51
To overcome the growing pains of its foreign policy-making, the EU needs to develop its own European Diplomatic Academy, where EU diplomats will be trained on the basis of common EU values and interests, according to a European Parliament proposal, seen by EURACTIV.
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Obesity must not become a new normal, MEPs warn

Thu, 22/04/2021 - 13:46
Participants of a launch event of a new European Parliamentary Interest Group on Obesity and Health System Resilience call on better obesities treatment management.
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Poland seeks to nationalise coal plants so firms can finance green investments

Thu, 22/04/2021 - 13:39
The Polish government is planning to nationalise dozens of coal plants and use public money to keep them running to allow state-owned energy companies to invest in greener alternatives. EURACTIV's media partner, Climate Home News, reports.
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US vows to cut its emissions at least 50% by 2030 ahead of climate summit

Thu, 22/04/2021 - 13:35
The US has vowed to cut its planet-heating emissions by at least half by the end of the decade, in a ramping up of ambition aimed at rallying other countries to do more to confront the climate crisis. EURACTIV's media partner, The Guardian Environment, reports.
Categories: European Union

NGOs walk out on EU green finance group over forestry, bioenergy rules

Thu, 22/04/2021 - 12:01
The WWF and several other NGOs have decided to suspend their participation in the European Commission’s Sustainable Finance Platform in protest against what they see as weak and “unscientific” criteria for bioenergy and forestry in the EU’s green finance taxonomy.
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Testing, Developing, and Operating a Geothermal Energy Solution [Promoted content]

Thu, 22/04/2021 - 12:00
Intention is to drill the deepest bore hole in Europe, generate green electricity and test new use cases for the technology. Slovakian company GA Drilling, Finnish company Finest Bay Area Development Oy and the Finnish Pyhäjärvi city owned development company...
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EU scales up efforts to support the culture and creative industry

Thu, 22/04/2021 - 10:52
The Culture and Creative Industries (CCIs) have been among the hardest-hit branches by the COVID crisis, losing up to 90% of their revenues since the beginning of the pandemic. In this context, the EU is launching a new initiative to...
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Reducing the use of antibiotics in the meat sector

Thu, 22/04/2021 - 10:35
The rise of antimicrobial resistance is a looming global crisis, threatening our ability to treat common infectious diseases, resulting in prolonged illness, disability, and death.
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Most major companies failing climate targets: study

Thu, 22/04/2021 - 08:44
Fewer than one in four of the world's largest companies are on track to meet basic climate change targets, according to a new study published on Thursday (22 April) ahead of a US-hosted climate summit where world leaders are expected to announce new commitments to cut emissions.
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EU action awaited as phantom paper further unhinges Western Balkans

Thu, 22/04/2021 - 08:42
A firmer stance from Brussels – noticeably missing last week – against a controversial document proposing border changes in the Western Balkans would help calm the growing anxieties in the region, analysts said. At the same time, regional and international...
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Another shooting during Albania’s general election campaign, killing one

Thu, 22/04/2021 - 08:30
One man was killed and four others wounded in Elbasan, 35km south of Tirana, on Wednesday, four days ahead of the 25 April general elections in Albania. Pjerin Xhuvani, reportedly a governing Socialist Party (SP) activist, was shot by Arber...
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Estonia ready to consider granting Navalny asylum

Thu, 22/04/2021 - 08:30
In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Italian football clubs abandoning the controversial Super League after the Brits had already abandoned ship, Croatian opposition parties calling for the health minister to go, and so much more.
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New migrant camp in BiH should be ready in three months

Thu, 22/04/2021 - 08:29
A permanent migrant camp in Lipa village near the northern town of Bihać should be completed in the next three months, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Security Minister Selmo Cikotić said on Wednesday, news agency Hina reported. Cikotić, together with officials from...
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Commissioner Ylva Johansson to broach media freedom during Slovenia visit

Thu, 22/04/2021 - 08:27
Slovenia has been in the international spotlight for months over the government’s attitude to media and journalists and the issue is expected to be high on the agenda when European Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson starts a two-day visit on...
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