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Nine European Union states said on Tuesday (12 July) that they would continue working with the six Palestinian civil society groups that Israel designated terrorist associations last year, citing a lack of evidence for that claim. Israel designated the Palestinian...

Two months after the EU Commission's proposal of up to €9 billion to keep the Ukrainian state solvent, EU finance ministers on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for €1 billion in financial help that is backed by the EU budget.

The German Federal Ministry of Interior presented its ambitious cybersecurity agenda on Tuesday (12 July), aiming to reorganise its architecture amidst rising cyber threats. But critics say several proposed measures have little to do with cybersecurity. 

Like other political parties, Volt has had many discussions over the environmental merits of nuclear power. But while the questions have remained the same for the last 30 years, the answers have changed significantly, writes Kathrine Richter.

While ‘solidarity lanes’ helped to increase Ukrainian grain exports, the majority of wheat is stuck in the nearby EU countries barely reaching the third countries that needed it, according to the European Commission.

The European Health Union indicated antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as one of its top three priority health threats in the EU on Tuesday (12 July) - the same day as the WHO called for accelerating of development of AMR-related vaccines.

The past few years have been a bumpy road for the global export champion. The German economy has suffered from the effects of the pandemic, global supply chain shortages, and of course, the unbundling of Russian gas imports.

Ukraine said on Tuesday (12 July) it had carried out a long-range rocket strike against Russian forces and military equipment in southern Ukraine, territory it says it is planning to retake in a counter-offensive using hundreds of thousands of troops.

The two European agencies in charge of the risk assessment on glyphosate have defended their approach to evaluating whether the herbicide is safe for re-approval in the EU against criticism from environment lawmakers.

European Union finance ministers on Tuesday (12 July) formally approved Croatia becoming the 20th member of the euro common currency at the start of 2023.

It was almost inevitable that the brash, new-world attitude of US tech companies, with their “move fast and break things” mantra, and desire to bend society to their will, would come into conflict with the regulatory approach of Europe.

Despite an exceptional unity of intent during the pandemic, the revision of the bloc's pharmaceutical legislation could suffer a bump between the EU's vision for health and this is still conceived at the national level, according to the CEO of a pharma company.

The euro sank to within a whisker of parity with the dollar on Tuesday (12 July) and stock markets fell as the prospect of further central bank tightening and worries about the health of economies worldwide unnerved investors.

Campaigners are warning against "major factors" of uncertainty in the EU's agricultural statistics reform that won approval from the European Parliament’s agriculture committee on Tuesday (12 July) in the first step towards its full adoption.

The left-wing NUPES coalition fell well short of the majority required to overthrow the French government after tabling a vote of no confidence on Monday (11 July). The move has positioned NUPES as the main critic of the government.

European cloud companies want to stand together as EU Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) is due to present its new certification scheme to ensure that services are impervious to extraterritorial laws, despite strong opposition.

The EU has frozen Russian assets worth €13.8 billion since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, but this large sum remains largely untouched across the bloc, a high-ranking European Commission official said on Tuesday (12 July).

With the Fit-for-55 package, the European Commission has set an ambitious goal in the direction of climate protection and to meet the target of "net zero" CO2 emissions in 2050. However, the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 55% until 2030 can only be realistically achieved if drastic emission reductions are reached in the coming years.

We have invited a few key decision-makers from the EU institutions, key policy analysts and Schneider Electric’s Europe CEO, Philippe Delorme, to discuss these policy proposals and to address some burning questions: Are the newly proposed objectives in RePowerEU too much or not enough? How can we create a systemic change that will create value while ensuring Europe’ sustainability and resilience? What are the loopholes in the European Commission proposal? Can we make it in such short timeframe? And above all, how could the EU develop a new policy framework that will put consumers in the driving seat of Europe’s energy transition journey ?

A more effective solution than an oil import ban is to implement a stiff per-volume tariff on imports of Russian petroleum products by creating a kind of buyer cartel, writes Robin Mills.