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A new generation of recruits to industry sees the EU’s ambitious climate agenda as an opportunity to decarbonise energy-intensive sectors and rebuild society. Speaking ahead of the publication of a new report, Sara Versano explains what this means for net zero policy and practices.

US President Joe Biden’s speech in Warsaw on Tuesday was met with great enthusiasm across the Polish political scene, as the president expressed loyalty to NATO Treaty’s Article 5 and his readiness to stand with allies, however, the ruling party...

The level of advance payments of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) funds are to increase to 23%, a 10 percentage point increase, to “give muscle” to implement projects,  the Secretary of State for the Economy Pedro Cilínio, announced Tuesday....

Large energy companies and financial institutions in Spain have paid €1.45 billion in a first instalment of two extraordinary taxes imposed by the government on both sectors, Finance Minister María Jesús Montero explained on Tuesday.

Lithuanian representatives will boycott the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna after Austria allowed Russian representatives to attend. The OSCE PA’s winter session in Vienna will take place...

A joint declaration on closer military and economic cooperation was signed by Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and Slovak Foreign Minister Rastislav Káčer Tuesday in London. The two countries will continue providing military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine and deepen defence...

Luxembourg will need another 270,000 workers by 2030, according to the Chamber of Commerce’s estimates, a figure that worries the industrial sector, artisan businesses and the banking industry. Foreign workers make up 70% of Luxembourg’s 460,000-strong labour force, with 210,000...

Belgium is currently facing a serious drug shortage with a total of 1,239 medicines being unavailable – a far cry from numbers revealed by the country’s Federal Medicines Agency – according to the  Febelco Group, Belgium’s biggest medicines supplier, Belgian...

About 47% of French people across all age groups are overweight, a number that has increased by nearly 10 percentage points in the last 25 years, a League Against Obesity study has found. The proportion of people who are overweight...

The German government will take action in response to Iran sentencing a German-Iranian citizen to death over so-called “corruption on earth” charges, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday. On Tuesday, a Revolutionary Court in Tehran sentenced 67-year-old Jamshid Sharmahd...

After months of stalling, the Hungarian parliament will discuss the support of the Swedish and Finnish NATO accession applications on Wednesday. On 1 March, the Hungarian parliament will start discussing Budapest’s support to Sweden and Finland’s application to NATO, as...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni travelled to Kyiv Tuesday to emphasise her government’s position in support of Ukraine – a likely attempt to cover up for the pro-Russian sentiments recently voiced by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and Infrastructure and...

Austria must take a more proactive stance in shaping EU foreign and defence policy matters and not hide behind its historically neutral stance towards conflict, European Parliament Vice-President Othmar Karas told EURACTIV on Tuesday after signing an open letter to...

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Sofia is experiencing staffing problems, with some of the EU-delegated prosecutors that have begun working on VAT and EU money fraud cases in Bulgaria leaving the office, and others already applying for other...

DRAFT REPORT containing a motion for a non-legislative resolution on the draft Council decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the Union, of the Framework Agreement on Partnership and Cooperation between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Government of Malaysia, of the other part
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Gheorghe-Vlad Nistor

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Integrated pest management (IPM) - a strategy which uses a hierarchy of plant protection products to minimise the use of chemical pesticides - is gaining popularity in Poland, but producers say change must happen by 'evolution rather than revolution'.

The EU's legitimacy and credibility has also suffered recently due to the Qatargate scandal engulfing the European Parliament, which undermines the EU's ability to protect the rule of law in member states.

After the European Galileo satellites, used by more than 2 billion mobile devices worldwide and the Copernicus satellites for Earth observation, the network of IRIS² telecommunication satellites will be the EU’s third major satellite programme. In this event report, EURACTIV...

The European Union completed a reform on Tuesday (21 February) that will see energy independence objectives added to the bloc’s €800 billion recovery fund adopted two years ago in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

It is evident that the EU is putting substantial diplomatic and political effort into its 'externalisation' of migration plans: Niger, for example, received visits in 2022 from Ursula von der Leyen and EU commissioenrs Ylva Johannson and Jutta Urpilainen.