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Europe’s wind industry braved a hurricane, now green transition goals are in sight [Advocacy Lab Content]

Thu, 03/21/2024 - 03:30
Europe’s ever-challenged wind industry gathered in Bilbao, Spain, where the industry stressed its value to policymakers, celebrated legislative wins, and pointed to a less turbulent horizon.
Categories: European Union

Lobby groups call for business-friendly turn of the EU Green Deal

Wed, 03/20/2024 - 19:19
Ahead of the European Parliament elections in June, business groups have presented their wish lists for the next legislative cycle, focussing on simplifying rules and paperwork but not calling to turn away from climate policy.
Categories: European Union

The Outsiders, Maylis Roßberg and Raül Romeva – EFA’s Spitzenkandidaten [Advocacy Lab Content]

Wed, 03/20/2024 - 18:45
At the European Free Alliance (EFA) General Assembly, the party’s two Spitzenkandidaten, Maylis Roßberg and Raül Romeva, sat down with Euractiv’s Jennifer Baker to discuss their brand of politics and the 2024 campaign.
Categories: European Union

EU Parliament’s compromise on pharma revision ‘a mixed bag’, says health organisation

Wed, 03/20/2024 - 18:35
For health organisations, the EU Parliament’s public health committee’s (ENVI) agreed compromise on the revision of the EUs pharmaceutical legislation could go further.
Categories: European Union

EU agrees to renew Ukraine trade benefits, but deal still in the limbo

Wed, 03/20/2024 - 18:32
The Parliament and the Council found a compromise to prolong the trade liberalisation until June 2025 ensuring an ‘emergency brake’ in case of excessive imports of certain food products from Kyiv, but the EU Ambassadors postponed their final decision while the European Parliament Trade Committee approved it.
Categories: European Union

Getting smarter? Europe struggling with smart energy efficiency interconnectivity [Advocacy Lab Content]

Wed, 03/20/2024 - 18:10
One of the biggest obstacles to deploying energy efficiency solutions is the part of it you can’t see – the lack of data interoperability between various components. Europe is struggling to ensure smart energy efficiency is truly interconnected.
Categories: European Union

European Commission lays down path to future-proof EU biotechnology

Wed, 03/20/2024 - 18:03
In a communication presented on Wednesday (20 March), the European Commission unveiled actions meant to drive Europe's biotechnology and biomanufacturing forward despite numerous challenges.
Categories: European Union

Baltics, Poland, Czechia reiterate demand to cap grain imports from Russia

Wed, 03/20/2024 - 17:34
In a letter seen by Euractiv, agriculture ministers from five EU countries called on the Commission to propose draft legislation to limit the import of grains from Russia and Belarus, citing unfair competition and moral obligations.
Categories: European Union

The Brief – Russian food ban gathers political consensus but farmers will be tougher to convince

Wed, 03/20/2024 - 16:20
EU initiatives against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine have always excluded the agricultural sector. This is meant to avoid side effects on global food security, as Russia is the world's largest exporter of wheat and a major player in the global fertiliser market.
Categories: European Union

How to exit the labyrinth of labour exploitation in subcontracting chains [Promoted content]

Wed, 03/20/2024 - 16:00
Next time you go by a construction site, look carefully. You might be witnessing exploitation of workers. Urgent action is needed, and the European Commission cannot simply look away.
Categories: European Union

Securing water for tomorrow – What course should the EU take?

Wed, 03/20/2024 - 16:00
Water is essential to human life, to the health of our ecosystems and to European economies, yet it is under increasing stress due to overexploitation, rising demand and the effects of climate change.
Categories: European Union

NATO expands its Romania Black Sea air base

Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:44
With the decision to expand NATO's military base near the strategic Black Sea port of Constanta, Romania will have stronger security guarantees, a representative of the Romanian Defence Ministry told Euractiv on Tuesday (19 March).
Categories: European Union

Bloom study lauds Left’s environmental record, lambasts right, centre in European Parliament

Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
Leftists in the European Parliament claimed the top spot in the ranking of political groups' environmental performance published by the French environmental association Bloom on Wednesday (March 20), with those on the right relegated to the bottom of the table.
Categories: European Union

Crunch time for the pandemic treaty

Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:00
Sharp words addressed to World Health Organisation (WHO) members instead of the usual soft diplomatic language opened the last round of formal negotiations on the pandemic treaty that kicked off on Monday (18 March) in the International Negotiating Body (INB).
Categories: European Union

What do Europeans truly think of the EU?

Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:00
Polls don’t tell the full story of what EU citizens want from upcoming EU elections – and we need to dive deeper into the interplay between Europeans’ views on further EU integration and their takes on specific EU policies, write Bruno Cautrès and Thierry Chopin.
Categories: European Union

Italian government divided again over Russian elections, von der Leyen

Wed, 03/20/2024 - 07:49
In today's capitals, find out more about Germany's police arresting two people suspected of plotting a terrorist attack on Sweden's parliament, Poland's top general saying Russia is preparing a conflict with NATO, and so much more.
Categories: European Union

Moldova expels Russian diplomat over Transnistria polling stations

Wed, 03/20/2024 - 07:43
Moldova on Tuesday (19 March) expelled a Russian diplomat over the opening of polling stations for Russia's presidential election in the breakaway region of Transnistria after summoning the Russian ambassador.
Categories: European Union

Putin orders KGB’s heirs to bust the West’s sanctions

Wed, 03/20/2024 - 07:16
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday (19 March) told the Federal Security Service (FSB), the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, to help Russian companies bust Western sanctions and expand their clout into new markets around the world.
Categories: European Union

Constitutional Court of Romania: No prison for €1 million tax evasion

Wed, 03/20/2024 - 07:15
Romania’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by two opposition parties seeking the constitutional annulment of legislation that decriminalises tax evasion of less than €1 million, provided the evader pays the amount owed along with a fine.
Categories: European Union

Italian government divided again over Russian elections, von der Leyen

Wed, 03/20/2024 - 07:13
Far right Lega leader Matteo Salvini remarks over the Russian elections saying “when people vote they are always right” has caused turmoil in the right-wing coalition government with many estimating that Lega is struggling to find its political space in the coalition’s balance of power after the EU elections in June.
Categories: European Union

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