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The good, the bad and the ugly: The IPCC special report on global warming of 1.5°C

Mon, 10/08/2018 - 14:02
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shows keeping global warming below 1.5°C is necessary, feasible and beneficial. Rich countries must now commit to ensure their economies reach net zero emissions before 2050, writes Nick Mabey.
Categories: European Union

Estonia insists it is not Europe’s money-laundering hub

Mon, 10/08/2018 - 13:31
In the wake of the Danske Bank scandal, Estonia's central bank has had to clarify cross-border payments made over the past ten years, amounting to approximately €900 billion. EURACTIV France’s media partner La Tribune reports.
Categories: European Union

Palmieri: Final agreement on Cohesion is necessary before European elections

Mon, 10/08/2018 - 12:52
With the European Week of Regions and Cities starting on 8 September, the debate on Cohesion Policy and its future in the EU's long-term budget 2020 is at the forefront. The European Economic and Social Committee will play a determining role in the debate and the final agreement on the proposal.
Categories: European Union

With Brexit looming, Germany and Britain ramp up defence cooperation

Mon, 10/08/2018 - 12:45
Britain signed a military cooperation agreement with Germany on Friday (5 October), emphasising London's commitment to helping shield Europe from future security threats at a time when negotiations over its own exit from the EU are reaching a crunch time.
Categories: European Union

Cambodia’s Hun Sen defiant despite EU trade threat

Mon, 10/08/2018 - 08:39
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen has taken a defiant stance following a European Union announcement last week that it would ramp up trade pressure on Cambodia over human rights concerns.
Categories: European Union

Czech president defends assertion that most Roma don’t work

Mon, 10/08/2018 - 08:11
The Czech president refused on Sunday (7 October) to back down from comments slamming what he called a 90% unemployment rate among the country's Roma, earning a rebuke from campaigners and rights activists.
Categories: European Union

Salvini threatens to shut airports over migrant ‘charter flights’ from Germany

Mon, 10/08/2018 - 07:50
Italy's far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini threatened Sunday (7 October) to shut the country's airports after media reported that Germany planned to send charter flights of rejected asylum-seekers to Italy.
Categories: European Union

Romanians boycott the ‘referendum of hate’

Mon, 10/08/2018 - 07:35
A referendum to change Romania’s constitution to prevent same sex couples from securing the right to marry failed to draw enough voters to validate the result on Sunday (7 October), after a campaign that led to a rise in hate speech against the gay community.
Categories: European Union

Dissatisfied Latvians put pro-Russia party first in parliamentary election

Mon, 10/08/2018 - 07:34
Dissatisfied Latvians rejected the right-of-centre ruling coalition in Saturday's (6 October) parliamentary election but suspicion of the left-leaning pro-Russia party makes it likely the next government will be another formation of ethnic Latvian parties to the right.
Categories: European Union

Nationalist Serb, Bosniak leaders win Bosnia’s presidential vote

Mon, 10/08/2018 - 07:34
Bosnian Serb nationalist leader Milorad Dodik and Šefik Džaferović, the candidate of the largest Muslim Bosniak party, have won the Serb and Bosniak seats in Bosnia's triumvirate presidency, the election commission said early Monday (8 October).
Categories: European Union

Professor: Life-course immunisation will save costs and lives

Mon, 10/08/2018 - 07:33
The adoption of a life-course immunisation approach in the EU will have significant multi-level effects, ranging from a healthier population to savings in healthcare budgets, Professor Daphné Holt told EURACTIV.com.
Categories: European Union

MEPs must keep water bills from increasing

Mon, 10/08/2018 - 07:22
MEPs must ensure that drinking water remains affordable while protecting public health at the same time, writes Claudia Castell-Exner.
Categories: European Union

Life-course immunisation

Mon, 10/08/2018 - 07:10
In his 2017 State of the Union speech, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said it was “unacceptable” that children are still dying from diseases that can easily be prevented with vaccines, like measles.
Categories: European Union

Television journalist’s murder shocks Bulgaria

Mon, 10/08/2018 - 07:08
A television journalist has been raped and murdered in Bulgaria's northern town of Ruse, prosecutors and a minister said Sunday (7 October), in a case that has shocked fellow journalists and sparked international condemnation.
Categories: European Union

What’s in the new German immigration law?

Mon, 10/08/2018 - 07:06
Last week, the German cabinet agreed the key points for a “skilled workers immigration law” from third countries. But what are its aims and what will change? EURACTIV Germany’s media partner Der Tagesspiegel reports.
Categories: European Union

‘Most important years in history’: Major UN report sounds last-minute climate alarm

Mon, 10/08/2018 - 07:05
Warming beyond 1.5C will unleash a frightening set of consequences and only a global transformation, beginning now, will avoid it, according to the latest report from scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). EURACTIV's media partner Climate Home News reports.
Categories: European Union

Georgia’s culture boom

Mon, 10/08/2018 - 07:00
Many praise Georgia as being a good pupil in the Eastern Partnership class, but cementing contacts between Georgia and EU citizens is much more than signing political agreements, writes Mikheil Batiashvili.
Categories: European Union

After ‘failing a referendum’, who gets to use the name ‘Macedonia’?

Mon, 10/08/2018 - 06:45
Following the recent setback, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev’s decision to proceed with new elections might be the only way forward, writes Neophytos Loizides.
Categories: European Union

Behind-the-curtain of the EU’s 2050 climate plan

Mon, 10/08/2018 - 05:58
The European Commission’s long-term climate plan could be hamstrung by a semantic dispute over vague figures and a fear of failure left over from previous ill-fated attempts at ambitious climate action, EURACTIV has learned.
Categories: European Union

The Brief – Too much sabre-rattling

Fri, 10/05/2018 - 16:57
Relations between Russia and the West are reaching a frighteningly low point. A recent statement by the US Ambassador to NATO reminded many of the 1961 Cuban missile crisis.
Categories: European Union

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