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Commissioner: EU plans not to exempt farmers from green measures for 2024

Fri, 09/01/2023 - 07:30
The European Commission is not planning to allow farmers further exemptions on environmental measures for another year to boost cereal production, according to EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski, despite mounting pressure to do so from member states.
Categories: European Union

Niger junta orders police to expel French ambassador

Fri, 09/01/2023 - 07:25
Niger's ruling junta has ordered police to expel France's ambassador, a move marking a further downturn in relations, and one that authorities in Paris said the army officers who seized power in Niamey last month had no authority to make.
Categories: European Union

Rule of law issue, minority rights, or vote buying? Albania-Greece saga continues

Fri, 09/01/2023 - 07:15
Greek and Albanian foreign ministers traded statements on Thursday as the dispute over Fredi Beleri, an Albanian ethnic Greek mayor arrested on suspicion of vote buying and held in pre-trial detention, rumbles on. Beleri, the winning candidate for Himare, running...
Categories: European Union

Vučić: No solutions if other side doesn’t look for them

Fri, 09/01/2023 - 07:14
It is difficult to find a solution in the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina when talking to people who do not want to look for a solution said President Aleksandar Vučić. “We could have sat for 10 hours. It is...
Categories: European Union

African Union suspends Gabon’s membership after military coup

Fri, 09/01/2023 - 07:13
The African Union on Thursday (31 August) suspended Gabon's membership one day after military officers ousted President Ali Bongo, the first regional response to the eighth coup in West and Central Africa since 2020.
Categories: European Union

EU Commission experts visit Romania to improve EU-Ukraine grain links

Fri, 09/01/2023 - 07:13
A team of EU Commission experts will visit the Romanian cities of Constanța and Galaţi from Friday to Saturday as part of the EU Executive’s quest to find solutions to improve transit, and commodities flow along ‘solidarity lanes‘ the Commission set...
Categories: European Union

We must not yield to imperialism [Promoted content]

Fri, 09/01/2023 - 07:00
For the whole world, Westerplatte is a symbol of the beginning of World War II. For us Poles, like Thermopylae, it symbolizes the heroic fight for a scrap of homeland's territory.
Categories: European Union

Polish court discontinues proceedings in Turów mine case

Fri, 09/01/2023 - 06:59
The Voivodship Administrative Court in Warsaw has suspended proceedings against the decision to extend the concession for the Turów mine until 2044, meaning that the mine, which has been the subject of a long-running dispute between Poland and the Czech Republic, can continue to operate unhindered for more than 20 years.
Categories: European Union

Slovak battery production projections lowest in Visegrad

Fri, 09/01/2023 - 06:59
Slovakia’s projected battery production capacity will reach 10 GWh by 2030, faring lower than those projected for Visegrad counterparts and beating only Croatia’s two GWh in the Central European region, an analysis of the vehicle production-dependent country by Erste Group reads.
Categories: European Union

Catalonia’s Puigdemont to set terms for talks with Sánchez

Fri, 09/01/2023 - 06:57
Former Catalan regional president Carles Puigdemont announced he would hold a meeting in Brussels to define his party Junts per Catalunya’s framework to open formal negotiations with the PSOE and would set the terms of the talks. After the Spanish...
Categories: European Union

Sweden to crackdown on irregular migrants

Fri, 09/01/2023 - 06:55
It could soon be mandatory to report the irregular stay of migrants in Sweden, according to a proposal being prepared by the Swedish coalition and its far-right ally, which also plans to tighten internal immigration controls with random checks and...
Categories: European Union

EU Commission questions Belgium for suspending reception of single male asylum-seekers

Fri, 09/01/2023 - 06:54
The European Commission will contact the Belgian authorities to inquire about the announcement by Secretary of State Nicole de Moor that Belgium’s Asylum Seeker Reception Agency (Fedasil) will no longer accept single male asylum seekers, the EU executive said at...
Categories: European Union

French ambassador to Niger remains in place despite mounting pressure

Fri, 09/01/2023 - 06:53
France continues to refuse to recognise the authority of the putschists in Niger, who have now instructed police to expel the French ambassador to the country, a letter revealed on Thursday reads. The letter, sent by the Foreign Ministry designated...
Categories: European Union

Greens eye French, Spanish model for German energy subsidies

Fri, 09/01/2023 - 06:51
Germany could subsidise electricity prices despite EU state aid rules, the Green Party, a junior partner in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition government insisted, pointing to efforts by France and Spain to extend their own subsidies.
Categories: European Union

Moscow stages local elections in occupied parts of Ukraine

Fri, 09/01/2023 - 06:50
Russian-installed authorities began holding regional elections on Thursday (31 August) in parts of Ukraine Russia claimed as its own last year, seeking to cement Moscow's authority in what it calls its "new territories" despite the ongoing conflict.
Categories: European Union

Russian oil fuels new political crisis in Bulgaria

Fri, 09/01/2023 - 06:49
Bulgarian political stability is threatened by a fuel market crisis as the ruling coalition wants to cut dependence on Russian oil, which would mean clashing with Russian private company Lukoil, which owns the Burgas refinery and has a monopoly on...
Categories: European Union

Czech banks hit by Russian cyber attacks

Fri, 09/01/2023 - 06:48
Several Czech banks and the Prague Stock Exchange were targeted by hackers on Wednesday and Thursday, with strikes aimed at banks’ websites or internet banking services, and the stock exchange’s website. Czech banks Komerční banka, Česká spořitelna, ČSOB, Air Bank...
Categories: European Union

EU elections ahead; winners, losers, reactions

Fri, 09/01/2023 - 06:45
EU citizens will elect the next class of EU lawmakers in June next year, and as European parties and groups begin to gear up for the elections, EURACTIV’s back-to-school forecast ahead of a heated pre-election year reveals the future dynamics...
Categories: European Union

Dutch FM: Greece makes EU China policy ‘difficult’

Fri, 09/01/2023 - 06:43
Effective EU policy-making towards China is hampered by certain EU member states, like Greece, being too dependent on the East Asian country, Foreign Trade Minister Liesje Schreinemacher (VVD/Renew) stated in an interview on Thursday. Schreinemacher, who will temporarily take over...
Categories: European Union

EU watchdog monitors surge of cash going into biodiversity funds

Fri, 09/01/2023 - 06:40
The surge in money going into biodiversity funds is the "next frontier" of environment, social and governance (ESG) investing and warrants increased monitoring to avoid greenwashing, the European Union's securities regulator said on Thursday (31 August).
Categories: European Union

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