European Union

Proposals to ease legal labour migration to Europe are needed by the end of January 2022, to overcome the challenge of an ageing population and of skills shortages.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

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Over 300 metal workers in the Basque region in Spain who lost their jobs because of the COVID-19 pandemic will receive €1.2 million in EU aid.
Committee on Budgets

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Over 300 metal workers in the Basque region in Spain who lost their jobs because of the COVID-19 pandemic will receive €1.2 million in EU aid.
Committee on Budgets

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Affordable medicines, preventing shortages and a climate-neutral industry - Parliament presses for a new EU pharmaceutical policy.

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Affordable medicines, preventing shortages and a climate-neutral industry - Parliament presses for a new EU pharmaceutical policy.

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The Council today adopted negotiation mandates on two proposals that are part of the digital finance package, the ‘Regulation on Markets in Crypto Assets' (MiCA) and the ‘Digital Operational Resilience Act' (DORA).

Main agenda items, approximate timing, public sessions and press opportunities.

The European Conservatives and Reformists Party has put together the opportunity for  young people to learn about the digital world for a reasonable  participation fee.

Germany's first "traffic light" governing coalition comprising the SPD, the Greens and the FDP has unveiled its coalition agreement. It includes an increase in the minimum wage and measures to accelerate the coal phase-out. It also foresees state pensions being financed through the capital markets. Europe's press discusses what to expect from the new government.

Whether it's mandatory vaccination, Covid passes or lockdowns - almost all European countries are introducing tighter measures in the fight against a new winter wave of the virus. And almost everywhere, a considerable chunk of the population views the measures as too harsh. Europe's press is also at loggerheads over the issue.

The popular Greek actor Aris Servetalis has renounced his leading role in Eugène Ionesco's play Rhinoceros because he doesn't agree with new Covid rules under which unvaccinated people are not allowed into the theater. The performances in Athens have been cancelled. The fact that the play is about resistance to social conformism makes the dispute all the more interesting for commentators.