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IoT connectivity means industries can transform the physical world to the digital world [Promoted content]

Fri, 12/02/2022 - 12:00
Our connectivity technology is powering industry 4.0. Watch our inventors tell their innovation stories. Learn more.
Categories: European Union

EU slows down on including plant-based drink in school scheme

Fri, 12/02/2022 - 11:04
Support for including plant-based alternatives to milk in the programme that distributes fresh produce to children in European schools is growing but both the EU executive and lawmakers are still cautious about it.
Categories: European Union

Data Act – where are we?

Fri, 12/02/2022 - 10:57
The Data Act has the grand ambition of creating a market for non-personal data in Europe. We discussed with Heiko Richter, a researcher from the Max Planck Institute, the current state of the policy discussions on the new data law...
Categories: European Union

MEPs question fisheries Commissioner’s commitment to fisheries

Fri, 12/02/2022 - 09:47
Lawmakers of the majority groups in the European Parliament lambasted EU fisheries Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius for prioritising environmental protection to detriment of the economic and social sustainability of the fisheries sector.
Categories: European Union

Analysis: Europe wary of Turkish hub to hide gas ‘made in Moscow’

Fri, 12/02/2022 - 08:20
Putin's plan to make Turkey a hub for Russian gas in theory could allow Moscow to mask its exports with fuel from other sources, but that might not be enough to persuade Europeans to buy, analysts and sources said.
Categories: European Union

‘Russia is losing the war against Ukraine’

Fri, 12/02/2022 - 08:04
The Russian army is losing 500 soldiers a day in Donetsk and Luhansk, without being able to achieve any result on the battlefield, writes Roman Rukomeda.
Categories: European Union

German strategy paper targets China trade dependence

Fri, 12/02/2022 - 07:55
Germany's economy ministry recommends excluding using components from providers from authoritarian states in critical infrastructure and imposing stricter requirements for firms doing business with China in a strategy paper seen by Reuters.
Categories: European Union

LGBTQ groups seek legal ban on Swiss conversion therapy

Fri, 12/02/2022 - 07:55
LGBTQ organisations in Switzerland are concerned that without swift action, the country could become a haven for conversion therapy, which is banned in neighbouring France and Germany.
Categories: European Union

Ties that bind: South Korea and Poland grow ever closer

Fri, 12/02/2022 - 07:44
In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Spain intercepting six envelopes with explosives, protesters in Sofia blocking the entry to the parliament over new election rules, and so much more.
Categories: European Union

Five Albanian state IT staff investigated over Iran hack

Fri, 12/02/2022 - 07:37
Five information technology employees at Albania’s Department of Public Administration are under investigation by the Tirana Prosecutor’s Office for abuse of duty following cyber attacks waged by Iran. The cyber attack took place in July and September 2022 and brought...
Categories: European Union

EU tentatively agrees $60 price cap on Russian seaborne oil

Fri, 12/02/2022 - 07:35
European Union governments tentatively agreed on Thursday (1 December) on a $60 a barrel price cap on Russian seaborne oil – an idea of the Group of Seven (G7) nations – with an adjustment mechanism to keep the cap at 5% below the market price, according to diplomats.
Categories: European Union

Tesla hoping its electric Semi will be heavy-duty ‘game changer’

Fri, 12/02/2022 - 07:18
US automaker Tesla on Thursday (1 December) delivered its first battery-powered heavy duty truck, dubbed "Semi," and built to tackle long hauls with the handling of a sporty sedan.
Categories: European Union

More Hungarian teachers reprimanded as anger, protests over firings swell

Fri, 12/02/2022 - 07:17
Fourteen additional teachers risk losing their jobs after protesting against working conditions in Hungary following a day of nationwide strikes after eight educators from a prestigious Budapest school were fired for civil disobedience. The teachers are from the Fazekas Mihály...
Categories: European Union

Italy approves decree to place Lukoil refinery under trusteeship

Fri, 12/02/2022 - 07:17
Italy's government on Thursday (1 December) laid down a scheme to place a refinery owned by Lukoil in the hands of trustees in an effort to avoid it being shut down because of a looming embargo on Russian seaborne oil.
Categories: European Union

Slovenia to receive 50 Syrian, Afghan refugees from Turkey

Fri, 12/02/2022 - 07:16
Fifty refugees from Afghanistan and Syria will be moving from Turkey to Slovenia as part of a resettlement plan that will be finalised at the end of January, the government announced Thursday. The 50 individuals are registered as refugees in...
Categories: European Union

Montengero questions transparency, strategy of Open Balkan initiative

Fri, 12/02/2022 - 07:14
Montenegro’s European Affairs Ministry has levied criticism at the Open Balkan regional initiative, stating it relies on the good relations of charismatic leaders and is not transparent. Open Balkan comprises Serbia, Albania, and North Macedonia, but Kosovo and Bosnia and...
Categories: European Union

Dodik says Bosnia and Herzegovina will never recognise Kosovo

Fri, 12/02/2022 - 07:12
The President of Republika Srpska, the Serb entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik, declared that he would never allow the country to recognise the independence of Kosovo. Dodik is known for his controversial and separatist views, and he is...
Categories: European Union

No electricity price increase in 2023 for Slovak households

Fri, 12/02/2022 - 07:05
While heat and gas prices will increase by approximately 15%, electricity prices will not change, the Slovakian government announced Thursday (1 December).
Categories: European Union

Italian prosecutors are after Czech football legend

Fri, 12/02/2022 - 07:03
A motion to indict former Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli and ten other board members, including vice-chairman and former Czech footballer Pavel Nedvěd, for falsifying the club’s accounts was filed by Turin’s prosecutor’s office. A date for a preliminary hearing to...
Categories: European Union

Opposition blasts defense minister’s u-turn on German patriots for Poland

Fri, 12/02/2022 - 07:02
Opposition representatives have accused the Defence Ministry for acting against the Polish raison d’état after Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak told Germany it should send its Patriot anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine instead. After a rocket fell on a village on...
Categories: European Union

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