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Border checks between Schengen countries should be limited to a maximum of one year, instead of the current two-year period, the European Parliament said in a draft law on Thursday, backed by 319 votes against 241, with 78 abstentions. Negotiations with EU ministers are now set to begin. Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway have internal checks since the 2015 migration crisis. France has special measures due to terror threats.

Slovakia's foreign minister Miroslav Lajcak announced on Thursday he would resign in protest over a decision in parliament to reject the UN migration accord. Lajcak was president of the UN General Assembly when the migration pact was adopted. The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration is set to be formally adopted in Morocco in December. One out of every 30 people worldwide is a migrant.

Deutsche Bank's Frankfurt headquarter and five other offices in the city were raided by police in an anti-money laundering probe on Thursday. The bank, which is Germany's biggest, was fined €550m by US and UK regulators in 2017 in connection with Russian money laundering and has been connected with another scandal at Denmark's Danske Bank.

German chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to miss the start of the G20 summit in Argentina on Friday after her flight was forced to land in Cologne shortly after departing from Berlin on Thursday evening due to a "malfunction of several electronic systems". Merkel had planned bilateral talks with the presidents of the United States, China, Russia and India, which may be affected by the delay.

Hard to comprehend why European automobile industry is pushing politicians into drastically speeding up transition away from the private car.

The finances and opulent lifestyles of Kremlin linked Oligarchs should be scrutinised fiercely in line with EU money laundering legislation.

The EU defence establishment has locked itself into an arms race on autonomous systems, while locking out the voice of civil society from the debate.

The European Commission is considering an initiative that would permanently hobble the continent's economy, writes Jan Fischer.

Miguel Arias Cañete, the EU commissioner for climate action and energy, had an unpleasant message for the gas industry when he presented the European Commission’s 2050 vision for a “climate neutral” economy earlier this week.

As global leaders met at the world’s first Sustainable Blue Economy conference this week, the EU must face the sobering reality of the state of our ocean and stand by its commitments to sustainably protect and effectively manage Europe’s seas before it’s too late, writes Dr Samantha Burgess.

In an exclusive interview, the long-serving Russian ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizhov provided insight on his country’s position on the Azov Sea situation, which led to the cancelling of a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Argentina.

US President Donald Trump cancelled on Thursday (29 November) his scheduled meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20 and bragged about the tariffs imposed on China, before a key meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Saturday. 

Italy’s deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said he was confident about ongoing talks with the European Commission over the country’s budget, despite a fresh recommendation by EU government representatives on Thursday (29 November) to open an excessive deficit procedure against Italy.

Brexit fatigue sets in swiftly, climate targets net zero by 2050, and no show Zuckerberg looks incredibly shifty.

As the European Commission unveiled its long-term vision for greenhouse gas reduction on Wednesday (28 November), a yellow cloud hung over the grand pronouncements.

In a landmark move, the UK intelligence services unveiled on Thursday (29 November) the process by which they decide to disclose security vulnerabilities to technology firms. Not every weakness discovered in a system is always disclosed to the company in question, they revealed. 

Understanding the history of average people during the Second World War fills in the gaps in collective memory, which are often exploited by the far right in Europe. This is the argument made by Les Amnésiques (“The Amnesiacs”), which was awarded the 2018 European Book Prize and reads like a novel. EURACTIV France reports.    

The complementarity of the EU's post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy with climate change goals remains a big challenge because the objectives are vaguely defined and short on measurable details, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) told EURACTIV.com.

When it comes to long-term transport decarbonisation, the European Commission has a short attention span, writes Emmanuel Desplechin. It should be encouraging solutions that work today, like sustainable biofuels.

The EU’s Horizon Europe for research and innovation provides an opportunity to unleash the potential of low-carbon technologies that will help Europe in the transition to a carbon neutral economy. This, however, is contingent on its design, writes Agnese Ruggiero.