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Civil Liberties MEPs want EU-US Privacy Shield suspended by September

Tue, 06/12/2018 - 11:04
MEPs in the European Parliament’s powerful Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) want the European Commission to suspend its Privacy Shield agreement with the United States unless the Trump administration introduces data protection safeguards by 1 September, in a move that comes amid mounting transatlantic political tensions.
Categories: European Union

Poland is growing its green energy generation. The capacity market should boost it even further. [Promoted content]

Tue, 06/12/2018 - 10:00
New wind turbines, new photovoltaic panels, and gas-fired power stations have been built in Poland for many years. But we can have more of them and more of the energy they produce. To a large extent, this may result from the capacity market, argues Filip Grzegorczyk.
Categories: European Union

Three presidents inaugurate TANAP pipeline in Turkey

Tue, 06/12/2018 - 09:00
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Azeri President Ilham Aliyev and Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili will inaugurate today (12 June) the Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP), a key element of the Southern Gas Corridor (SGC), media in the three countries announced.
Categories: European Union

Businesses, NGOs make joint plea for higher EU ambition on climate change

Tue, 06/12/2018 - 07:57
A unique coalition of businesses and investors representing over €21 trillion in assets have joined forces with local authorities and civil society groups to urge EU leaders to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon economy in order to keep global warming below 2°C.
Categories: European Union

US unveils de facto embassy in Taiwan amid China tensions

Tue, 06/12/2018 - 07:54
The United States unveiled a new $256 million representative office in Taiwan’s capital on Tuesday (12 June), a de facto embassy that underscores Washington’s strategic ties with the democratic, self-ruled island as it faces escalating tensions with China.
Categories: European Union

Trump says summit with North Korea’s Kim ‘better than anybody expected’

Tue, 06/12/2018 - 07:47
US President Donald Trump said a historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday (12 June) had gone “better than anybody could have expected”, and they would sign a document following talks on ways to end a nuclear standoff on the Korean peninsula
Categories: European Union

Poland aims to be ‘keystone’ between diverging EU and US, says PM

Tue, 06/12/2018 - 07:21
Poland's rightwing prime minister has said the growing rift between the EU and the United States is a "great opportunity" for his country, which he hopes will be a "keystone" between them as trade tensions escalate.
Categories: European Union

Lagarde says global economic outlook darkening by the day

Tue, 06/12/2018 - 07:03
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde led an attack by global economic organisations on US President Donald Trump's "America First" trade policy on Monday, warning that clouds over the global economy "are getting darker by the day".
Categories: European Union

EU parliament’s ‘gravy train’ hits the buffers

Tue, 06/12/2018 - 06:42
Hundreds of European lawmakers and officials were left stranded for hours on Monday when an electrical fault halted their train to the EU parliament in the eastern French city of Strasbourg.
Categories: European Union

How do we make a net-zero carbon economy the new normal?

Tue, 06/12/2018 - 06:33
As the EU Talanoa Dialogue and the Petersburg Dialogue kicks off a busy month for EU climate action, Eliot Whittington explains why now is the time for the EU to show its colours on legislation currently under consideration and make a net-zero carbon economy the new normal.
Categories: European Union

Germany, France voice cautious hope on reviving Ukraine peace process

Tue, 06/12/2018 - 06:29
Germany and France voiced cautious optimism Monday that Russia and Ukraine will take steps to revive the long-stalled peace process in the smouldering Ukraine war that has claimed 10,000 lives.
Categories: European Union

Why tracking the movement of plastic litter in the oceans is crucial

Tue, 06/12/2018 - 06:15
Five countries at the last G7 summit in Canada signed a Plastics Charter, recognising the need to speed up global action on marine plastics pollution. An IPCC-type framework is now needed to address the issue, writes Dr. Erik van Sebille.
Categories: European Union

Andriukaitis: SPC manufacturing waiver does not damage pharma innovation

Tue, 06/12/2018 - 06:13
The European Commission’s proposal to add an SPC manufacturing waiver on exports will not damage innovation, as the pharma industry claims, and only intends to support small and medium generic drug companies, according to EU Health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis.
Categories: European Union

Europe should not forget Iran’s imperialist agenda despite the crumbling of JCPoA

Tue, 06/12/2018 - 06:10
Despite its rich history, traditions and achievements, Iran still considers itself an underdog, a revolutionary, and an active force that wants to reshape its neighbourhood. It feels the deck is stacked against it as it positions itself as the perennial challenger to unfair forces keeping it down, writes Kacper Rekawek.
Categories: European Union

Spain to receive rescue boat with 629 migrants after Italy, Malta refuse

Mon, 06/11/2018 - 17:05
Spain's new prime minister ordered the authorities on Monday (11 June) to receive a rescue vessel carrying 629 migrants that has remained at sea in the Mediterranean after both the Italian and Maltese governments, the two nearest European territories, refused it permission to disembark. EURACTIV’s partner efe-epa reports.
Categories: European Union

The Brief – Trump’s horror show

Mon, 06/11/2018 - 16:51
The “horror” summit finally happened. But contrary to what European Commission top official Martin Selmayr expected two years ago, Donald Trump was enough to throw decades of Western Alliance down the drain.
Categories: European Union

Thorning-Schmidt makes Brussels appearance, promotes conservative social-democracy

Mon, 06/11/2018 - 16:36
Former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, who was also the leader of the Social Democrats in her country from 2005 to 2015, made an appearance in Brussels today (11 June) offering her views how the EU should better makes it case globally and improve internally.
Categories: European Union

Johnson and Davis isolated as key Brexit Tory MPs opt for pragmatism

Mon, 06/11/2018 - 15:42
On the eve of the second anniversary of the Brexit plebiscite, nothing but nothing is clear on what the UK government’s policy is, still less on what the official opposition’s policy is. All the enthusiasm for Brexit has disappeared from political life in Britain, writes Denis MacShane.
Categories: European Union

Germany pours cold water on EU’s clean energy ambitions

Mon, 06/11/2018 - 15:16
Voters across Europe have lost faith in politics partly because of “unachievable targets” on renewable energy, said German Energy Minister Peter Altmaier, rejecting calls from a group of other EU countries to boost the share of renewables to 33-35% of the bloc’s energy mix by 2030.
Categories: European Union

Tax evasion deprives the EU of 20% of corporate taxes

Mon, 06/11/2018 - 13:57
Economists consider, based on tax havens’ statistics such as Bermuda or Ireland, that 40% of multinational companies' profits avoid taxation. The EU would thus be deprived of a fifth of its income from companies. EURACTIV.fr reports.
Categories: European Union

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