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On Monday the Parliament’s Bureau, the body that lays down the institution is working rules, unveiled ambitious environmental targets for the 2019-2024 parliamentary term.

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Fewer journalists killed in line of work in past year, but targeted killings and state detentions, especially in Turkey and China, grew, a leading NGO has noted.

Climate and environmental problems and their prevention are one of the main elements of the new multiannual EU budget proposed by the European Commission after 2020. The common agricultural policy takes account of them very strongly, and even more so than many other policies. EURACTIV Poland reports.

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Monday (16 December) that he needed to speak with his Turkish counterpart to understand how serious President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was when he said he could shut down the Incirlik air base, which hosts US nuclear warheads.

In an interview with Environment Protection Dr Zbigniew Karaczun of the Warsaw University of life Sciences, EURACTIV Poland’s Mateusz Kucharczyk finds out what the Polish professor has to say about the Commission’s new CAP proposal and urged to enact new laws, as opposed to just reforming existing regulations.

The gap between men and women, measured in terms of political influence, economic gain and health and education, will take another century to disappear, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said. The Swiss-based organisation tracks global progress in gender equality. While more women were entering government, the economic gap has widened, it said. Progress in the political sphere remained slow with women still holding only 21 percent of ministerial positions worldwide.

Estonia's president Kersti Kaljulaid apologised after the country's interior minister described Finland's new PM Sanna Marin as "a sales girl". 34-year old Marin is the world's youngest premier. Kaljulaid said she was "embarrassed" by the comments of Mart Helme, 70, who leads the far-right party Ekre. Helme said on a radio talk show that Marin is a "sales girl" and other "street activists" and "non-educated people" joined the Finnish cabinet.

As the massive transport strike enters the 12th day, High Commissioner for Pensions, Jean-Paul Delevoye, has resigned over revelations of undeclared income. Delevoye admitted that he had failed to declare his position as a volunteer director at an insurance training...

The number of migrants crossing from Turkey to Europe grew by almost half in 2019 compared to 2018, according to an EU report published by German newspaper Die Welt. From January to the middle of December, 70,002 migrants reached the EU from Turkey, representing a 46 percent increase compared to the same period in 2018. Most migrants crossed the Aegean Sea to Greece, some reached Bulgaria, Italy and Cyprus.

British prime minister Boris Johnson will use his control of parliament to outlaw any extension of the Brexit transition period beyond 2020, UK media reported. Johnson wants to pressure the EU to agree on a trade deal by the end of 2020. The UK leaves the EU on 31 January and starts a transition period until the end of the year, leaving 11 months to agree on a future deal.

The mayors of four eastern EU capitals, Budapest, Prague, Warsaw and Bratislava, formed an "pact of free cities" as an alliance of resistance against nationalist governments. The liberal-leaning mayors pledged to protect "freedom, human dignity, democracy, equality, rule of law, social justice, tolerance and cultural diversity." They also want to jointly lobby the EU for direct funding as some governments attempt to squeeze the budgets of opposition-led capitals.

The Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affair urged Malta on 16 December to postpone the execution of a decision to deny a residence status to Serbian children whose parents’ annual income does not meet the country’s financial requirements until the next...

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We need to take into account the different state of economic and social development of each country, not to mention their varying energy systems. We cannot put a climate muzzle on economic growth.

Ukraine's national oil and gas company, Naftogaz, said on Monday (16 December) that no agreement had yet been reached over the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine after 2019. As tensions grow, EURACTIV looked at the details.

For years, Serbia has been labelled as one of the frontrunners for EU accession in the Western Balkans, being one of two countries in the region currently negotiating membership. Unfortunately, there is little truth in this perception, write representatives of the Serbian opposition.

Yesterday, the German states and the federal government reached agreement on the core elements of the grand coalition’s Climate Package, a set of new laws for environmental protection. The agreement sets the price of CO₂ at €25 per tonne as...

Marta Vilalta, spokesperson of the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) warned on Monday socialist PSOE party that it won’t allow to be blackmailed in order to facilitate the formation of a “progressive” government between the Spanish socialists and leftist Podemos.

There is an "enormous amount at stake" in an appeal against a High Court decision that found the police's capturing of mobile phone metadata in relation to a murder case breached EU law, Ireland's Supreme Court has heard.

Lawmakers in the European Parliament have approved a compromise on the EU’s proposed sustainable finance rulebook, ending a bitter fight with EU member states on whether to recognise nuclear power as “green”.