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The parliament in Rome on Wednesday passed a new security and immigration decree with a vote of confidence. It comprises tougher regulations for migrants and is intended to boost security in cities. Italian journalists, however, doubt that it will fulfil this purpose.

An American missionary has been killed while attempting to convert the Sentinelese tribe. John Chau, 26, had travelled by boat to North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean, but the inhabitants shot him with arrows, leaving him fatally injured. No visitors are allowed on the island as a governmental measure to protect the natives living there. Commentators discuss whether they need to be protected.

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) Paris Ile de France welcomes the Commission's desire to create an harmonized framework for cross-border conversions, mergers and divisions, but has reservations about the approach favored by the Commission.

Europe stands to avoid €200 billion in healthcare costs every year and significantly reduce premature deaths if the EU ends up adopting an ambitious climate change policy for 2050, according to the European Commission's long-term strategy.

A group of sixteen European energy companies including France’s EDF, Germany’s E.ON, and Denmark’s Ørsted, have proposed introducing a carbon price floor at European or regional level, as a way to the speed up the transition to a low-carbon economy.

China, currently engaged in a trade war with the United States, is seeking to strengthen its ties with Spain and Portugal as other European Union members are trying to restrict Chinese investments.

The Greens have demanded an EU parliament code of conduct probe against a group of MEPs following an EUobserver investigation on Moroccan lobbying.

British government and EU lawyers have heaped scorn on the idea that Britain could unilaterally revoke its Brexit process.

A survey of 12 EU states ranks Finland as the place where people of African descent experience the most abuse, followed by Luxembourg and Ireland.

EU funding of military research will not be without consequence. It will likely fuel an arms race.

The European consumer is hardly buying any hydrogen cars, despite the EU's belief that it has a potential to reduce the use of fossil fuels.

US President Donald Trump has said he may cancel a long-awaited summit with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin after a confrontation at sea between Russia and Ukraine led Kyiv to warn of the threat of "full-scale war".

A Spanish fishing boat, the Nuestra Madre Loreto, has been stuck out at sea for six days after rescuing 12 African asylum seekers from a dinghy because no EU country has agreed to take them in, AFP reports. Italy and Malta told the boat's captain, Pascual Dura, to take the migrants back to Libya, but he said the migrants would "mutiny" if he tried. "We can't go anywhere," Dura said.

EU states will consider fresh sanctions on Russia over its aggression against Ukraine in the Azov Sea, depending "on the exposition of facts and the further conduct of both parties", Karin Kneissl, Austria's foreign minister said Tuesday, speaking for the Austrian EU presidency. Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland, as well as some senior German politicians have also called for punitive measures. EU foreign ministers next meet on 10 December.

Iran will restart enriching uranium to near weapons-grade levels unless the EU starts buying its oil in line with a 2015 accord, the country's atomic energy chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, told Reuters. "If we cannot sell our oil and we don't enjoy financial transactions, then I don't think keeping the deal will benefit us," he said. EU firms are wary of Iranian oil after the US threatened them with sanctions.