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European Parliament set to debate highly-critical resolution on Albania

Tue, 03/14/2023 - 06:03
The rapporteur of Albania for the European Parliament, Isabel Santos, has drafted a highly-critical resolution against the country, criticising plans for a cash-for-passports scheme, a lack of transparency in competition and public procurement, and little progress in fundamental freedoms. The...
Categories: European Union

Europe needs an investment plan to win the global cleantech race

Tue, 03/14/2023 - 06:00
The adoption by the US of the Inflation Reduction Act gave new life to the global cleantech race. The EU must now learn three lessons from it, writes Thomas Pellerin-Carlin.
Categories: European Union

Commission denies Irini’s operation presence in Mediterranean migration routes

Mon, 03/13/2023 - 20:21
The European Commission has denied the presence of the so-called Irini military operation in the Central Mediterranean in the area where ‘main migratory routes are running’, diplomatic spokesperson Peter Stano told the press on Monday (13 March).
Categories: European Union

Post-conflict teaching vital to reconciliation, say education experts

Mon, 03/13/2023 - 16:35
Innovative teaching and cross-border projects are key to going beyond a purely national version of history and will be vital to post-conflict teaching and reconciliation following the war in Ukraine, say European education experts. 
Categories: European Union

The Brief — Chinese diplomacy at work

Mon, 03/13/2023 - 16:21
The episode may have escaped the attention of Brussels circles, but a Chinese-brokered deal to restore ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia, respectively, the two leading Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim powers in the Middle East, is a diplomatic stunt that provides food for thought.
Categories: European Union

EU state aid: The good and the bad of opening the floodgates

Mon, 03/13/2023 - 16:18
The EU’s Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework (TCTF), which allows member states to subsidise sustainable technologies, is welcomed by advocates for green industrial policy - but some NGOs fear it will be counterproductive for the environment and SMEs.
Categories: European Union

Ukraine confident of positive EU progress assessment in spring

Mon, 03/13/2023 - 16:12
Evaluation by the European Commission of Ukraine's progress in fulfilling the recommendation for EU accession will be presented in May and by then, Kyiv will complete the implementation of most of them, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration, Olha Stefanishyna, told European Pravda.
Categories: European Union

Georgia’s pro-EU leader Zourabichvili to meet Michel after ‘foreign agent’ row

Mon, 03/13/2023 - 16:00
Georgia's President Salome Zurabishvili is set to meet EU chief Charles Michel in Brussels Monday (13 March) after Tbilisi dropped its controversial 'foreign agent' law in the face of major pro-European protests.
Categories: European Union

For Putin, the writing is on the wall when it comes to Ukraine

Mon, 03/13/2023 - 15:49
The longer the war drags on, the clearer it becomes to the world: Russia can no longer win, writes Alexander Temerko. Alexander Temerko is a Ukrainian-British businessman, and former junior minister of defence of the Russian Federation in the Yeltsin...
Categories: European Union

Biden hosts UK, Australia to reveal anti-China submarine pact

Mon, 03/13/2023 - 15:45
Leaders of the US, Australia and Britain are set to unveil plans to provide Australia with nuclear-powered submarines on Monday (13 March), in a major push against China's ambitions in the Indo-Pacific.
Categories: European Union

Pro-Ukraine forces need to develop their own narrative of peace

Mon, 03/13/2023 - 14:51
It is crucial for Ukraine’s allies to counter Russian efforts to claim ownership of the peace narrative by redefining the concept of peace, writes Patrik Szicherle. Patrik Szicherle is a research fellow at GLOBSEC. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and...
Categories: European Union

EU Commission rejects priority industry access to recycled PET bottles

Mon, 03/13/2023 - 14:42
The European Commission has rejected calls from the soft drinks industry to reserve recovered PET bottles in priority for recycling into new food-grade plastics, saying this risked causing distortions on the market for secondary materials.
Categories: European Union

Xi may visit Russia next week, will speak to Zelenskyy

Mon, 03/13/2023 - 14:12
Chinese President Xi Jinping could wade deeper than before into Ukraine diplomacy as soon as next week, staging both his first trip to Russia and his first talks with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy since Moscow's invasion.
Categories: European Union

There’s a new pathway to decarbonising hard-to-abate industries: green ammonia [Promoted content]

Mon, 03/13/2023 - 12:00
For the European Union to win the race to net zero, we have to solve the energy trilemma faced by all hard-to-abate industries: we must establish secure supplies of energy that are both commercially competitive and carbon neutral. 
Categories: European Union

EU’s green buildings law faces right-wing backlash in European Parliament

Mon, 03/13/2023 - 09:13
As the EU’s Energy Performance of Buildings Directive enters the home stretch, it faces a first crucial test in the European Parliament this week, where opposition is lying in wait.
Categories: European Union

REVEALED: Greece, EU lost in Babel of train safety deals

Mon, 03/13/2023 - 07:47
In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Russia's embassy to Slovakia being very active on Facebook, Austria joining Germany in opposing the de facto combustion engine ban for 2035, and so much more.
Categories: European Union

Varoufakis attacked outside a bar in Athens

Mon, 03/13/2023 - 07:37
The leader of leftist DiEM25 and controversial former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis was hospitalised over the weekend after he was physically attacked by a group of young people. People with covered faces and COVID masks approached the table where Varoufakis...
Categories: European Union

Global trade union leader sacked over Qatargate

Mon, 03/13/2023 - 07:36
The general secretary of the international union ITUC has been dismissed from his post, the confederation said, over his links to a European Parliament graft scandal implicating Qatar.
Categories: European Union

Agrifood podcast: A LEAKy couple of weeks

Mon, 03/13/2023 - 07:30
This week, EURACTIV discusses a leaked draft of EU member states’ compromise text on the industrial emissions directive, and we hear from EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski for his take on the controversies surrounding the directive. We also speak with...
Categories: European Union

REVEALED: Greece, EU lost in Babel of train safety deals

Mon, 03/13/2023 - 07:29
The EU and Greece have been trying to put in place modern safety systems and improve Greek railways’ cross-border interoperability to connect with the rest of Europe for more than twenty years. But a series of delays, grey contracts and...
Categories: European Union

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