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Polish MPs allow security forces to use arms with impunity

Sat, 27/07/2024 - 07:44
Polish lawmakers on Friday (26 July) voted to allow the security forces to use lethal weapons with impunity in response to active threats, including at the tense border with Belarus.
Categories: European Union

ESA ‘Juice’ spacecraft to swing by Earth, Moon on path to Jupiter

Sat, 27/07/2024 - 07:32
A spacecraft launched last year will slingshot back around Earth and the Moon next month in a high-stakes, world-first manoeuvre as it pinballs its way through the Solar System to Jupiter.
Categories: European Union

Venezuela opposition seeks to end 25 years of authoritarian power in Sunday vote

Sat, 27/07/2024 - 07:14
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and her coalition's candidate Edmundo Gonzalez have commanded enthusiastic crowds during their campaign to unseat President Nicolás Maduro and end 25 years of ruling party dominance.
Categories: European Union

Flotilla on Seine, rain and Céline Dion mark start of Paris Olympics

Sat, 27/07/2024 - 07:00
French President Emmanuel Macron declared the Olympic Games open on Friday (26 July) after a soaking wet ceremony in which athletes were cheered by the crowd along the Seine, dancers took to the roofs of Paris and Lady Gaga sang a French cabaret song.
Categories: European Union

EU adds neo-Nazi group The Base to its ‘terrorist’ list

Sat, 27/07/2024 - 06:35
The EU on Friday (26 July) added The Base -- a neo-Nazi group founded in America and active in several other countries -- to its "terrorist" list, subjecting it to immediate sanctions.
Categories: European Union

France’s train network hit by arson attacks hours before Olympic ceremony

Sat, 27/07/2024 - 05:56
Saboteurs struck France's TGV high-speed train network in a series of pre-dawn attacks across the country, causing travel chaos and exposing security gaps ahead of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony later on Friday (26 July).
Categories: European Union

Innovative treatment offers hope of ending AIDS by 2030

Fri, 26/07/2024 - 17:18
A groundbreaking medicine presented at the Munich International AIDS conference could be a game changer, but the cost is prohibitive.
Categories: European Union

The EU should call Orbán’s oil bluff

Fri, 26/07/2024 - 16:58
Europe can survive without Russian oil. Hungary, Slovakia, and Czechia are no exceptions, even though they lobbied hard for exemptions from the EU's ban on Russian oil imports after Russia invaded Ukraine, writes Martin Dimitrov.
Categories: European Union

As Germany struggles to improve economy, it decided to go on a Gigabit offensive

Fri, 26/07/2024 - 15:26
The German government is going on a telecom spending spree with a new telecom law, seemingly against industry stakeholders' views and its own decision to tighten the purse strings.
Categories: European Union

NGOs pressure Commission to include animal welfare in next vision of future of farming

Fri, 26/07/2024 - 14:54
European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen has announced that her new Commission will unveil a ‘Vision for Agriculture and Food’ in the first 100 days in office, but associations are calling for animal welfare to be included in it as von der Leyen did not mention the topic in her investiture speech in the European Parliament.
Categories: European Union

Europe’s national parliaments take on Hungary’s Council presidency 

Fri, 26/07/2024 - 14:30
Hungarian officials will face a dressing down and boycotts from the EU’s national parliaments at this weekend's meeting of COSAC, an oft-overlooked EU institution that national lawmakers see as one of the few tools to make their voice heard in Brussels. 
Categories: European Union

Hungarian health minister says he will bring creativity to pharma package negotiations

Fri, 26/07/2024 - 13:10
At the first Informal Health Council of the Hungarian EU Council Presidency on Thursday (25 July), State Secretary Péter Takács promised ‘creative thinking’ on the pending pharmaceutical package.
Categories: European Union

EU, US energy chiefs keep clean tech rivalry on friendly terms in Bucharest

Fri, 26/07/2024 - 12:42
The European energy commissioner and the US energy secretary used a meeting of Central and Eastern European energy ministers in Bucharest this week to keep EU-US clean tech competition on a friendly footing.
Categories: European Union

EU Commission urges six member states to appoint authorities for DSA enforcement

Fri, 26/07/2024 - 11:44
The European Commission has initiated infringement procedures for Belgium, Spain, Croatia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Sweden, asking them to comply with the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA), according to a Friday (26 July) press release.
Categories: European Union

Dissecting Apple’s compliance with EU digital competition rules from a civil society perspective

Fri, 26/07/2024 - 11:29
A group of digital rights organisation said that Apple’s plans to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) are ineffective in a submission to the European Commission.
Categories: European Union

Pornhub challenges natural names disclosure under digital rules at Europe’s highest court

Fri, 26/07/2024 - 10:59
Aylo, Pornhub's parent company, is appealing to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to avoid having to disclose the natural names of users in its ad repository, as required by its Digital Services Act (DSA) designation.
Categories: European Union

Lie is truth, friend is enemy as Georgian Dream digs in with election campaign

Fri, 26/07/2024 - 10:05
After the adoption of Russian-style foreign agents law, the county's ruling Georgian Dream party, led by oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili, launched its election campaign with conspiracies, sowing discord, and detachment from reality.
Categories: European Union

EU gets first-ever request to authorise sale of lab-grown meat

Fri, 26/07/2024 - 09:01
In an EU first, French company Gourmey has requested a pre-market authorisation for lab-grown foie gras in the 27-member bloc amid a heated debate among European governments over food innovation.
Categories: European Union

G20 agree to work on Brazil’s ‘billionaire tax’ idea, implementation seen difficult

Fri, 26/07/2024 - 07:39
The world's 20 biggest economies (G20) agreed on Thursday (25 July) to work together to ensure the ultra rich are effectively taxed, in a declaration that seeks a balance between national sovereignty and more cooperation on tax avoidance.
Categories: European Union

Russian drone debris found in Romania, NATO says no sign of intentional attack

Fri, 26/07/2024 - 07:22
Romania said it found Russian drone fragments on its territory on Thursday (25 July) and NATO said it saw no sign of an intentional attack on the alliance's territory after Moscow troops fired 38 long-range drones into Ukraine overnight.
Categories: European Union

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