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Fridges and dishwashers packed in reusable plastic? Bad idea, industry says

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 08:00
Large household appliances will have to be transported almost entirely using reuseable packaging by 2030, according to the European Commission’s proposed packaging waste law, a move widely questioned by players in the supply chain.
Categories: European Union

World’s spy chiefs meet in secret conclave in Singapore

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 07:55
Senior officials from about two dozen of the world's major intelligence agencies held a secret meeting on the fringes of the Shangri-La Dialogue security meeting in Singapore this weekend, five people told Reuters.
Categories: European Union

Fossil fuelled: Climate talks begin with spotlight on oil chief

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 07:50
The future of fossil fuels – the leading source of planet-heating emissions – will face scrutiny at UN climate negotiations Monday (5 June) with an under-fire Emirati oil chief poised to step into the driver's seat.
Categories: European Union

Agrifood podcast: Polish Commissioner, Parliament protests & getting ‘grounded’

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 07:35
This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team talks you through the controversies at a recent meeting of EU agriculture ministers, including how the EU’s agriculture Commissioner is increasingly prioritising Polish issues, and discusses the pushback to the EU’s nature restoration law, both...
Categories: European Union

Finland, US eye 6G to reduce Chinese tech dependence

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 07:29
In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the German far-right AfD catching up with Chancelor Olaf Scholz's SPD party, Finland and the US agreeing to cooperate on 6G technologies, and so much more.
Categories: European Union

Anti-government protests continue in Serbia

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 07:17
The fifth “Serbia against violence” protest was held on Saturday, exactly one month after the first of two mass shootings, with protestors demanding the replacements of both Interior Minister Bratislav Gašić and the head of national intelligence agency BIA, Aleksandar...
Categories: European Union

Inflation, interest rates will stay high amid poorer growth prospects, IMF chief says

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 07:16
Continuous inflationary pressure and higher interest rates will remain the main problem for the global economy next year, together with the overriding concern about longer-term growth prospects, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund told Croatian state broadcaster HRT...
Categories: European Union

Ukrainian Bulgarians want leader of Bulgarian pro-Russian party punished

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 07:15
Bulgaria’s parliament should punish Kostadin Kostadinov, leader of Bulgarian pro-Russian party Vazrazhdane, mayors of municipalities with a Bulgarian population in Ukraine’s Odesa wrote in a letter published Friday, reacting to Kostadinov threatening to deport all Ukrainian refugees from Bulgaria if...
Categories: European Union

Fighter jets chase small plane in Washington area before it crashes in Virginia

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 07:12
The United States scrambled F-16 fighter jets in a supersonic chase of a light aircraft with an unresponsive pilot that violated airspace around Washington D.C. and later crashed into the mountains of Virginia, officials said.
Categories: European Union

Drought in southern Europe results in big demand for Albanian olive oil

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 07:12
The export of Albanian olive oil has quadrupled in 2023 when compared to the rate it sold in 2022, according to the Deputy Minister of Agriculture Arian Jaupllari, due in part to droughts in Spain and Italy resulting in lower...
Categories: European Union

Left union ‘key’ to prevent PP-VOX government

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 07:09
Left-wing parties Sumar and Unidas Podemos will ally and are eyeing to join forces with Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s PSOE to avoid a future government of centre-right Partido Popular (PP/EPP) and the far-right party VOX (ECR), according to Yolanda Díaz,...
Categories: European Union

Renew: reindustrialisation and greens job among EU election priorities

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 07:07
EU reindustrialisation and the creation of ‘green jobs’ are among top priorities of the liberal family ahead the next EU elections, the President of Renew Europe group Stéphane Séjourné told EURACTIV in a video interview.
Categories: European Union

Slovakia looks for new recovery fund plans after scrapping hospital

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 07:07
Slovakia’s new technocratic government is renegotiating its recovery plan with the European Commission after admitting that the €281 million project for an 800-bed hospital in Bratislava could not be finished before the 2026 deadline. The Razsochy Hospital was initially planned...
Categories: European Union

Donald Tusk gathers half a million at anti-government pre-election march

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 07:06
About 500,000 people marched through Warsaw to protest the current Law and Justice (PIS) government, following a call by opposition leader and former European Council president Donald Tusk ahead of this year’s upcoming election. The massive rally took place on...
Categories: European Union

Will the European Parliament use the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation to set the right course for fully circular beverage packaging? [Promoted content]

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 07:00
The EU is defining the future of circular beverage packaging as we speak. We have entered now an intense legislative cycle with thousands of amendments being tabled by the European Parliament to the proposal for an EU Packaging and Packaging...
Categories: European Union

UK fighter jets, helicopters train alongside NATO allies in Estonia

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 06:59
RAF Typhoon fighter jets and Army Air Corps Apache helicopters concluded a training exercise off the coast of Estonia on Friday, where they practised firing heavy machine guns and advanced missiles, alongside over 10,000 personnel from 11 NATO countries, according...
Categories: European Union

Energy sufficiency, a French political concept still misunderstood in Europe

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 06:58
France has made energy sufficiency – the deliberate reduction of energy consumption – one of the three pillars of its decarbonisation strategy, alongside nuclear and renewables. However, Brussels and other European capitals have yet to fully embrace the approach.
Categories: European Union

Rutte defends migration policy against own party criticism

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 06:58
Prime Minister Mark Rutte (VVD/Renew) addressed criticism from members of his own party for lack of a clear-cut plan on the country’s migration crisis during a party congress on Saturday, stating he remains cautions to ensure ‘stability of the cabinet’....
Categories: European Union

Russia says it thwarted major Ukrainian offensive, Kyiv’s reaction enigmatic

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 06:57
Russia said on Monday (5 June) that its forces had thwarted a major Ukrainian offensive at five points along the front in the southern Ukrainian region of Donetsk and killed hundreds of pro-Kyiv troops.
Categories: European Union

Poll: German far-right head to head with SPD as opposition leads

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 06:57
Germany’s far-right party AfD has now caught up with Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) as the two are polling at 19% in latest opinion polls, while the leading opposition party, the conservative union of CDU and CSU, is polling...
Categories: European Union

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