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MEPs backed two legislative proposals to facilitate the uptake of renewable and low-carbon gases, including hydrogen, into the EU gas market.
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

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MEPs backed two legislative proposals to facilitate the uptake of renewable and low-carbon gases, including hydrogen, into the EU gas market.
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

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The new digital identity framework would provide EU citizens with digital access to key public services across EU borders.
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

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The new digital identity framework would provide EU citizens with digital access to key public services across EU borders.
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

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Draft measures to increase the rate of renovations and reduce energy consumption and greenhouse-gas emissions were adopted on Thursday.
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

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Draft measures to increase the rate of renovations and reduce energy consumption and greenhouse-gas emissions were adopted on Thursday.
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

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Statement of the Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament on support for Ukraine

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Statement of the Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament on support for Ukraine

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Artificial Intelligence in migration is increasingly used to make predictions, assessments, and evaluations based on racist assumptions it is programmed with. But with upcoming AI Act, the EU has a chance to draw red lines on the most harmful technologies.

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Digital technologies have brought big changes to online political advertising that could - if unregulated - harm people's democratic rights.

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Digital technologies have brought big changes to online political advertising that could - if unregulated - harm people's democratic rights.

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Length of video : 29'

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President Bashar al-Assad is seeking political advantage from an earthquake that has devastated large parts of Syria and Turkey, pressing for foreign aid to be delivered through his territory as he aims to chip away at his international isolation.

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday (8 February) encouraged the idea of green subsidies by the European Union to offset feared harm from a vast US climate plan – arguing there is enough business for all to benefit from the clean energy transition.

Poland's parliament on Wednesday (8 February) passed two pieces of legislation the government hopes will unblock billions in European Union funds, but doubts remained over whether the president would sign the judicial reform bill into law.

Last week’s third anniversary of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU also means it’s the third anniversary of the Trade & Cooperation Agreement (TCA).

The TCA is the oddly overlooked counterpart of the Withdrawal Agreement (with its troublesome Protocol), oddly because it is the much more substantial treaty, structuring the full breadth of current relations and containing space to include pretty much all the future relations too.

Of course, such a significant text comes with a degree of complexity, which we’ve looked at before on the OUatEU blog (here and here, for example).

One part of that complexity comes from the changing situation over time: we still have a number of transitional arrangements in place (both by mutual agreement and by unilateral proclamation) and a raft of reviews and sunset clauses to come in the next years.

The graphics below set out all of this, together with references to relevant information. Sadly, there’s nowhere that has a definitive resource for TCA matters (unlike Queen’s excellent Protocol tracker); both the EU and UK have rather dispersed bits and no simple way to pick up all the non-hard law decisions. Maybe if there’s a clamour from you, the readers, I might get to making such a thing myself.

In the meantime, take in the notion that we already know some things that will be happening in 2035.

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A new row has erupted between France, Germany and Spain over nuclear energy, with Paris furious about a lack of support from Berlin and Madrid for its efforts to have nuclear-derived hydrogen labelled as 'green' in EU legislation, sources said.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Belgian parties facing backlash over their temporary Iran deportation ban proposal, Austria wanting harder migration lines adopted at the EU summit, and so much more.

SpaceX has taken steps to prevent Ukraine's military from using the company's Starlink satellite internet service for controlling drones in the region during the country's war with Russia, SpaceX's president said Wednesday (8 February).