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In Russia, within just a few days the already very one-sided media landscape has been brought completely under the Kremlin's control. Any reports or commentaries on the armed forces and the operations in Ukraine that deviate from the official version are banned. The few critical outlets that remained such as Echo of Moscow and TV Dozhd were first blocked and then shut down. Other media are partly bowing to the pressure in order to survive.

ACI EUROPE, the trade association representing Europe’s airports, invited Christel Vandenhouten, Head of Sustainable Development at Brussels Airport to an exclusive interview to discuss sustainability

EU leaders plan to say at their summit in Versailles, France, this week that, "Russia's war of aggression constitutes a tectonic shift in European history," according to a draft conclusions seen on Tuesday. The bloc plans to pledge to "increase substantially defence expenditures" and to "phase out" Russian fuel imports including coal, oil and gas, according to the draft for the summit, which takes place Thursday and Friday.

A new analysis suggests more Malaysian used cooking oil was exported to Britain and Ireland than was collected in the country, raising fears that banned substances are being fraudulently passed off as the in-demand biofuel feedstock.

Russia adopted a list of “enemy countries” in which the whole of the EU is included. The first sanctions against the “enemy countries” announced was that Russian counterparts would settle their debts with them only in rubles.

Bezirkshauptmannschaft Hartberg-Fürstenfeld (Effet direct)
Freedom of establishment
Posting of workers: national courts must ensure that penalties for non-compliance with administrative obligations are proportionate

Commission v United Kingdom
Own resources of the Communities
The United Kingdom has failed to fulfil its obligations in relation to customs control and the availability of EU own resources by failing to adopt the measures necessary to combat fraud with regards to undervalued imports of textiles and footwear from China

A “dashboard” to follow-up citizens' recommendations must be created, so the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) does not fail its goal of including citizens in EU policymaking, Christa Scweng told EURACTIV.

EU heads of states and government will consider ways to “phase out our dependency on Russian gas, oil and coal imports” at an informal meeting later this week, according to leaked draft summit conclusions seen by EURACTIV.

Tuesday, 8 March

Source : © European Union, 2022 - EP

Tuesday, 8 March

Source : © European Union, 2022 - EP

Fears of an energy war between Russia and the West grew on Tuesday after the United States pushed its allies to ban Russian oil imports as punishment for Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, where talks on humanitarian corridors made little progress.

Ahead of Women’s Day, the European Parliament started discussing the disproportionate effects that the pandemic had on women, who ultimately faced more unpaid care work, violence and worsened mental health as a consequence of lockdowns and curfews.

The possibility that the United States might ban Russian oil imports has triggered a surge in Brent crude to almost $140 a barrel, its highest level since 2008.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Germany struggling with the distribution of Ukrainian refugees, Ukraine expelling a Bulgarian far-right leader, and so much more.

The Party of European Socialists has stood by Former Slovak prime minister and Smer party leader Robert Fico after he announced he would pursue a coalition with the far-right Republika movement and likened NATO soldiers to Nazi troops. European socialists...

More than 255,000 refugees have entered Moldova since Russia’s first military attack on Ukraine. Around 100,000 of them are still in the country, Moldova’s Interior Minister Ana Revenco told news agency Agerpres. Of the total number of people fleeing the...

Russian missiles demolished the Albanian honorary consulate in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Sunday evening. The consulate issued an announcement about the attack, confirming its staff was safe and there had been no casualties. The Albanian foreign ministry condemned...