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VW puts on hold plan for 1 bln car factory in Turkey over Syria incursion

Tue, 10/15/2019 - 14:20
Volkswagen has postponed the decision on opening a new car factory in Turkey against the background of the Turkish military offensive in Syria. "The final decision for the new plant was postponed by the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG," a company spokesman said on Tuesday (15 October), confirming media reports.
Categories: European Union

Ex-IMF chief Strauss-Kahn believes Brexit will benefit everyone

Tue, 10/15/2019 - 14:04
The EU will be better off without the UK, and the UK will be better off without the EU. This is according to IMF's former chief and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who has been involved in several financial and sexual scandals. EURACTIV's partner Ouest-France reports.
Categories: European Union

Visions for Europe: ‘The Euro’s journey is far from finished’

Tue, 10/15/2019 - 14:00
The euro is the most tangible symbol of European unification, and it is here to stay and prosper, writes Luis de Guindos, Vice-President of the European Central Bank.
Categories: European Union

Leaders must take action, giving signals is not enough

Tue, 10/15/2019 - 13:33
The EU should allow North Macedonia and Albania to sit at the EU accession negotiations table this week - anything else would be a grave political mistake, argues Sergei Stanishev.
Categories: European Union

Contaminated meat scandal exposes Germany’s food safety flaws

Tue, 10/15/2019 - 12:53
Three people died because bacteria-contaminated food from a meat producer was sold on the European market. Although the authorities knew about the bacterial discovery, the company was only closed after two weeks. EURACTIV Germany reports.
Categories: European Union

Appliances’ pension plan [Promoted content]

Tue, 10/15/2019 - 12:00
The short reportage follows the life of an appliance that has been loyal to consumers, and has been left disappointed with the way some products are treated at their end of life.
Categories: European Union

Europe seeks a comprehensive strategy to lift its competitiveness 

Tue, 10/15/2019 - 11:59
The dominance of US firms and Chinese companies in the digital world has sounded the alarm bells in Europe. EU and national officials have agreed that the competitiveness of European firms requires a comprehensive strategy that goes beyond easing the bloc's competition rules.
Categories: European Union

Accelerating integrated energy systems for a climate-neutral EU

Tue, 10/15/2019 - 11:00
Achieving the EU climate objectives requires a complete transformation of our energy systems. To get there, we need to take a holistic approach, and to maximise synergies between sectors and systems.
Categories: European Union

Commissioner delays, offset options & Jumbo japes

Tue, 10/15/2019 - 10:39
Welcome to EURACTIV’s weekly Transport Brief – your one port of call for all the news moving the world and much more! 
Categories: European Union

Status Anxiety. The 6 million people at the heart of Brexit

Tue, 10/15/2019 - 09:36
This Special Report looks at some of the questions facing EU nationals living in the UK and their UK counterparts, and whether these 6 million Europeans will be victims of the political chaos.
Categories: European Union

Denmark to strip foreign fighters of Danish citizenship

Tue, 10/15/2019 - 08:56
Denmark will fast-track legislation allowing people with dual citizenship who have gone abroad to fight for militant groups like Islamic State to be stripped of their Danish nationality, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Monday (13 October).
Categories: European Union

Leaked recording shakes Slovak politics, confirms high-level political corruption

Tue, 10/15/2019 - 08:46
The Capitals brings you the latest news from across Europe, through on-the-ground reporting by EURACTIV’s media network. You can subscribe to the newsletter here.
Categories: European Union

Trump ex-Russia adviser Fiona Hill testifies in impeachment inquiry

Tue, 10/15/2019 - 08:43
Donald Trump’s former Russia adviser testified for more than nine hours on Monday (14 October) behind closed doors, the latest witness summoned in the impeachment inquiry against the US president over his request that Ukraine investigate a political rival.
Categories: European Union

Armenia’s EU accession could be a ‘question for the people,’ Deputy PM says

Tue, 10/15/2019 - 08:33
Armenia has a "completely different level of relationship" with the European Union after last year's revolutionary uprising, the country's Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan has said, telling EURACTIV any future EU accession is a "question that the people of Armenia need to answer."
Categories: European Union

Google’s fight against EU antitrust fine to be heard February 12-14 at EU court

Tue, 10/15/2019 - 08:25
Alphabet unit Google’s fight against a 2.4-billion-euro EU antitrust fine will be played out over three days in February 2020 at Europe’s second-highest court, according to parties involved in the case.
Categories: European Union

Poland’s parliament on knife-edge as opposition takes upper house

Tue, 10/15/2019 - 07:59
Poland's nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party appears to have narrowly won a second term in power, final results from the parliamentary election on Sunday (13 October) showed, but its drive to push through its agenda may be hampered by its loss of the upper house.
Categories: European Union

Russia-backed Syrian army sweeps in to fill US-left vacuum

Tue, 10/15/2019 - 07:43
Russia-backed Syrian forces took rapid advantage of an abrupt US retreat from Syria on Monday (14 October), deploying deep inside Kurdish-held territory south of the Turkish frontier less than 24 hours after Washington announced a full withdrawal.
Categories: European Union

Opportunity in a crisis: European Union must enable people with chronic conditions to remain active in social and economic life [Promoted content]

Tue, 10/15/2019 - 07:00
The election of the new Parliament and the establishment of the new Commission represent an opportunity to re-calibrate the role of the EU in improving the health of its citizens. This debate, however, cannot be disconnected from a more general...
Categories: European Union

French MP: ‘We try to bring method to the madness of building renovation’

Tue, 10/15/2019 - 06:55
The Yellow Vest movement has actually boosted France's ambition to be a building renovation champion as it positioned the economy front and centre in the debate, the government's 'co-pilot' for the project told EURACTIV.
Categories: European Union

New German rules leave 5G telecoms door open to Huawei

Mon, 10/14/2019 - 18:24
Germany has finalised rules for the build-out of 5G mobile networks that, in a snub to the United States, will not exclude China’s Huawei Technologies.
Categories: European Union

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