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Kenyan traders react angrily to proposed EU clothes ban

Thu, 03/28/2024 - 18:38
Kenyan textiles traders have reacted angrily to a proposed EU ban on second-hand clothes exports following the first discussions at an EU environment ministers meeting in Brussels earlier this week.
Categories: European Union

[Interview] Lawyer suing Frontex takes aim at 'antagonistic' judges

Thu, 03/28/2024 - 18:22
Judges at the European General Court are demanding absurd levels of evidence for asylum seekers wanting justice over alleged abuses, says a lawyer suing the EU's border agency Frontex.
Categories: European Union

Orban's Fidesz faces low-polling jitters ahead of EU election

Thu, 03/28/2024 - 17:36
Hungary's governing party faces June's European elections with a worrying drop in support, following the presidential pardon scandal, polls show. Opposition parties, however, might not be able to profit from the decline
Categories: European Union

German bank freezes account of Jewish peace group

Thu, 03/28/2024 - 14:12
The Berliner Sparkasse bank has frozen the account of anti-zionist Jewish organisation.
Categories: European Union

[Opinion] EU Modernisation Fund: an open door for fossil gas in Romania

Thu, 03/28/2024 - 13:23
Among the largest sources of financing for energy transition of central and eastern European countries, the €60bn Modernisation Fund remains far from the public eye. And perhaps that's one reason it is often used for financing fossil gas projects.
Categories: European Union

'Swiftly dial back' interest rates, ECB told

Wed, 03/27/2024 - 17:11
Italian central banker Piero Cipollone in his first monetary policy speech since joining the ECB's board in November, said that the bank should be ready to "swiftly dial back our restrictive monetary policy stance."
Categories: European Union

[Podcast] Moscow's terror attack, security and Gaza

Wed, 03/27/2024 - 15:55
This week's Euroscopic explores the consequences of Moscow's terror attack, the convergence of public safety and border/migration policy in an EU election year, and the United Nations Security resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Categories: European Union

[Opinion] Why UK-EU defence and security deal may be difficult

Wed, 03/27/2024 - 15:12
Rather than assuming a pro-European Labour government in London will automatically open doors in Brussels, the Labour party needs to consider what it may be able to offer to incentivise EU leaders to factor the UK into their defence thinking.
Categories: European Union

EU unveils plan to create a European cross-border degree

Wed, 03/27/2024 - 14:58
The so-called "European degree" is to be a new type of diploma, awarded after transnational programmes run at national, regional or institutional level — and on a voluntary basis.
Categories: European Union

[Investigation] How migrants risk becoming drug addicts along Balkan route

Wed, 03/27/2024 - 14:57
Psychotropic drug abuse is one of the many dangers migrants face along the Balkan route. In overcrowded camps, doctors prescribe tranquilisers to calm people down. And black market circuits and pharmacies selling drugs without prescription contribute to the issue.
Categories: European Union

[Opinion] 2024: A Space Odyssey — why the galaxy needs regulating

Tue, 03/26/2024 - 17:52
Why nations must adopt a more comprehensive approach to space governance amid increasing geopolitical challenges.
Categories: European Union

[Interview] Syrian mayor in Germany speaks out against AfD

Tue, 03/26/2024 - 16:06
Ryyan Alshebl left Syria in 2015 amid the ongoing war. Eight years later, he was elected mayor of the German town Ostelsheim — aged 29. He talked to EUobserver about his journey, the threat of extremism and humanitarian asylum systems.
Categories: European Union

Asian workers pay price for EU ship recycling

Tue, 03/26/2024 - 13:23
Loopholes in international regulations on ship recycling are resulting in major human and environmental damage.
Categories: European Union

[Investigation] Poison for sale — the pesticides banned in EU in use in Kenya

Tue, 03/26/2024 - 12:00
Big-Agri is using markets in developing countries to sell products banned in Europe — despite their harmful effects on health and the environment.
Categories: European Union

[Column] EU's Gaza policy: boon for dictators, bad for democrats

Tue, 03/26/2024 - 11:58
While they woo dictators and autocrats, EU policymakers are becoming ever more estranged from the world's democrats. The real tragedy is the erosion of one of Europe's key assets: its huge reserves of soft power, writes Shada Islam.
Categories: European Union

Doubt and anger greet last-minute backtracking on EU biodiversity law

Mon, 03/25/2024 - 18:46
EU environment ministers expressed anger at the last-minute backtracking by some EU countries on the EU nature restoration law and questioned the Belgian commitment to get the important file across the finish line
Categories: European Union

US and EU breaking taboos to restrain Israel

Mon, 03/25/2024 - 18:21
The US abstained and all EU states on the UN Security Council backed a call for an "immediate ceasefire" in Gaza, as Europe prepares to also blacklist extremist Israeli settlers.
Categories: European Union

EU commisisoner Šuica sounds alarm on demographic shift

Mon, 03/25/2024 - 17:34
The EU will have to step up its efforts to tackle looming demographic challenges over the next five years. If not, the bloc faces "sleepwalking into dark scenarios", warns EU commission vice-president Dubravka Šuica.
Categories: European Union

EU warns Russia over Moscow terror attacks

Mon, 03/25/2024 - 16:09
Europe has warned Russia not to use the weekend's terror attacks in Moscow as a pretext to escalate its war in Ukraine and crackdown on internal dissent.
Categories: European Union

[Opinion] With war on its doorstep, Egypt faces a delicate balancing act

Mon, 03/25/2024 - 15:47
Balancing its support for the Palestinian cause with its national interests remains a difficult task for Egypt
Categories: European Union

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