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Bulgaria to introduce quotas for Bulgarian music

Fri, 07/08/2022 - 06:40
The parliament will enforce quotas for Bulgarian music on state television and radio airwaves as per changes in the law proposed by the pro-Russian nationalist party ‘Vazrazhdane’ and passed with ten votes in favour and none against. The draft law...
Categories: European Union

Italy’s COVID surge is ‘real reason for concern’, says health foundation

Fri, 07/08/2022 - 06:39
Hospitalisations due to COVID-19 have risen by 33% in the past seven days driving a 36% increase in intensive care ward occupancy, according to the monitoring report by the Gimbe Foundation released on Thursday. A surge in COVID-19 infections is...
Categories: European Union

Irish PM urges to ‘reset’ UK relationship after Johnson exit

Fri, 07/08/2022 - 06:37
Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin urged Boris Johnson, who resigned as UK prime minister on Thursday, to step back from planned unilateral action on the Northern Ireland Protocol before his exit. In a statement following Johnson’s announcement, Martin called for movement...
Categories: European Union

French legislative to investigate consultancy overuse in public administration

Fri, 07/08/2022 - 06:37
An investigation is to be launched into the French administration’s over-contracting of consulting firms such as McKinsey and Capgemini for policy inputs, especially in the COVID vaccine roll-out strategy, far-left La France Insoumise MP and Finance Committee chairman Eric Coquerel...
Categories: European Union

European cities call for more staff, resources to decarbonise buildings

Fri, 07/08/2022 - 06:28
While the EU is planning to decarbonise buildings across the bloc to advance the green transition, local authorities are calling for more support to face a shortage of skilled workers to design and implement decarbonisation projects.
Categories: European Union

European Parliament backs higher green jet fuel targets to decarbonise aviation

Fri, 07/08/2022 - 06:05
The European Parliament approved draft EU rules Thursday (7 July) to greatly increase the amount of green jet fuel used in the aviation sector, a move lawmakers say will help to slash flying’s carbon footprint.
Categories: European Union

NGO condemns Sanchez’s silence over border deaths in Spanish enclaves

Thu, 07/07/2022 - 19:09
Following increased border control between Morocco and the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, the Spanish government is remaining silent on alleged violations of international law, a source from the migration NGO No Name Kitchen told EURACTIV.
Categories: European Union

Meloni in Strasbourg with Fiala and Metsola. The leader of the Conservatives strengthens her European alliances [Promoted content]

Thu, 07/07/2022 - 19:00
On the 6th of July, Giorgia Meloni landed in Strasbourg to meet the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, and the Prime Minister of Czechia, Petr Fiala. The President of both Fratelli d’Italia and of the European Conservatives and Reformists party continues on her path to consolidate her position on the European scene in a series of meetings with EU leaders.
Categories: European Union

Methane reduction in livestock farming facing test of implementation

Thu, 07/07/2022 - 18:45
Despite some options for the reduction of methane emissions from livestock farming being already available, the challenge now facing EU lawmakers is how to set up policy frameworks for the uptake of these tools and techniques among farmers.
Categories: European Union

Editor’s take: What direction for EU-UK relations after Johnson’s luck runs out? 

Thu, 07/07/2022 - 17:55
With Boris Johnson gone, the question for Europe is whether now with the primary source of the poison infecting EU-UK relations since 2016 gone, the relationship between London and Brussels will improve, writes Benjamin Fox.
Categories: European Union

Standardisation body calls for AI definition, categorisation to be decided as standards

Thu, 07/07/2022 - 16:56
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) suggested that the definition of AI and categorisation of high-risk applications are left to technical standards in a letter sent to the European Commission and obtained by EURACTIV.
Categories: European Union

France banks on sustaining ‘purchasing power’, risks high public spending

Thu, 07/07/2022 - 16:33
As inflation and soaring prices have become a major concern for many French people, its government is addressing the issue by giving people the means to keep spending, even though this could mean an increase in public spending.
Categories: European Union

The Brief – Can Ukraine recover Donbas?

Thu, 07/07/2022 - 16:21
The current phase of the war in Ukraine suggests that after taking Luhansk, Russia’s goal is to seize the whole of Donetsk as well, meaning that the entire Donbas could be under Moscow's control.
Categories: European Union

Sustainable agricultural methods to reduce 1 billion tonnes of carbon by 2040 [Promoted content]

Thu, 07/07/2022 - 16:00
The “Gigaton Carbon Goal” initiative will reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into the atmosphere by 1 billion tonnes by 2040, thanks to the use of sustainable agricultural methods, and will create a carbon market from which farmers will benefit directly....
Categories: European Union

EU will oppose G20 becoming a ‘propaganda forum’ for Russia

Thu, 07/07/2022 - 15:54
The EU will prevent Russia using a G20 meeting in Indonesia as a "propaganda forum" for its disinformation on the impacts of its war in Ukraine, a spokeswoman said Thursday (7 July).
Categories: European Union

German farmers, industry decry neglect of biogas amid gas shortages

Thu, 07/07/2022 - 15:41
Bioenergy and German farmers' associations have criticised the country's renewable energy act (EEG) amendment passed in the Bundestag on Thursday (7 July) on the grounds that it does not provide sufficient support for biogas.
Categories: European Union

US, Israel push Arab allies for joint defence pact amid Iran tensions

Thu, 07/07/2022 - 15:25
The United States and Israel are seeking to lay the groundwork for a security alliance with Arab states that would connect air defence systems to combat Iranian drone and missile attacks in the Middle East, sources said.
Categories: European Union

French far-right’s institutionalisation is in full swing

Thu, 07/07/2022 - 15:15
France's traditionally anti-establishment far-right has changed tack with Rassemblement National leader Marine Le Pen taking steps to institutionalise her party in a bid to gain power.
Categories: European Union

Eurozone fragmentation or fiscal union? There is a middle way.

Thu, 07/07/2022 - 14:58
With fears of a looming recession, the risk of eurozone fragmentation is back on people's minds. However, a group of economists think they have found a solution to prevent the fragmentation without going all the way to the politically improbable fiscal union.
Categories: European Union

French move to nationalise EDF reopens restructuring debate

Thu, 07/07/2022 - 14:52
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne's announcement to nationalise French energy giant EDF in the wake of the European Parliament approving nuclear and gas in the EU's green taxonomy, has revived the debate on how to restructure the French giant.
Categories: European Union

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