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The European Commission, together with other EU institutions, has kicked off a campaign to introduce October as the 'European Cybersecurity Month', aimed at raising cyber-awareness across the bloc amid increasing concern around online safety.

France's 2024 budget treads a fine line, with green transition financing and the battle against inflation taking precedence over reducing public debt - though the high deficit raises fears the Commission may trigger an excessive deficit procedure.

Germany has announced an increase in police checks on its border with Poland and the Czech Republic — in a bid to respond to irregular migration along smuggling routes.

Emily O'Reilly cited the post-pandemic recovery funds, the windfall taxes on energy companies, and the joint purchase of vaccines, as procedures which received limited scrutiny from the national parliaments — as a result of emergency decision-making powers that bypassed parliament.

Cities across Europe are increasingly challenging the dominance of automobiles by restricting their access to urban centres. But as a recent campaign decrying automotive bans by the centre-right EPP group shows, the issue risks descending into a left-vs-right culture war...

While heavy-duty vehicle manufacturers will shed thousands of workers in the shift to zero-emission offerings, these job losses will be more than compensated through new positions in the growing energy and infrastructure sectors, a new study has found.

Slovakia's three-time prime minister Robert Fico has a chance to return to power in a closely fought early election on Saturday (30 September), raising the prospect the central European country may drop its staunch support of neighbouring Ukraine.

The EU has set its 2030 ambitions in terms of egovernance, digital businesses and skills, which need to be supported by qualitative telecom infrastructure. This is the goal of the Gigabit Infrastructure Act. The Digital Decade Targets are a set...

Britain has given the go-ahead for one of its biggest new oil and gas projects in years, Equinor's North Sea Rosebank field, saying energy security was the priority despite opposition from environmentalists.

US Senator Bob Menendez is set to appear in court on Wednesday (27 September) to face charges of taking bribes from three New Jersey businessmen, as calls for his resignation from his fellow Democrats escalated.

An editorial word: As one health file closes, another opens By Giedrė Peseckytė Let’s start with the good news: this week, a deal was struck between the European Parliament and the Council on updating the European Medicine Agency (EMA)’s fees....

The EU Commission's new magic formula for avoiding scrutiny is simple. You declare the documents in question to be "short-lived correspondence for a preliminary exchange of views" and thus exempt them from being logged in the official inventory.

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Nuclear power will play a crucial role in Europe's transition to carbon-free, secure energy production, according to Poland's secretary of state for strategic energy infrastructure, speaking at the Polish electricity association PKEE's Energy Day 2023.

Interacting with corrugated cardboard is a near daily occurrence in most people’s lives. It protects essential goods of all types as they travel around the globe and eventually end up in stores nearby or on our front doorsteps. Eleni Despotou...

Members of the AFET Committee will meet on:

Thursday, 5 October in CHURCHILL 100 (Strasbourg)

Vote jointly with the Committee on Budgets on the report on the Establishing the Ukraine Facility

Meeting will be webstreamed.
AFET-SEDE-DROI meetings 2023
Meeting documents
Webstreaming
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As EU institutions prepare to negotiate the proposed revision of the 2021-2027 MFF, experts and lawmakers are urging Brussels to rethink the overall EU budget framework to make sure it better responds to spending needs in the longer-term.

With the demand for critical raw materials set to increase in the following years, governments and companies must adopt measures for a fair system that ensures security of supply while preventing the exploitation of vulnerable communities, write Jonathan Pershing and Monica Araya.

Spain v Commission
State aid
The General Court annuls the Commission’s decision declaring the Spanish tax scheme on the deduction for indirect acquisitions of shareholdings in foreign companies unlawful

Valve Corporation v Commission
Competition
Online video games: the General Court confirms that geo-blocking of activation keys for the Steam platform infringed EU competition law