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United Nations' cultural agency, UNESCO, said on Wednesday (25 January) that it had designated the historic centre of Odesa, a strategic port city on Ukraine's Black Sea coast, a World Heritage in Danger site.

More and more European municipalities are turning to a co-decision tool allowing citizens to decide how to spend local resources, but its impact remains uncertain as low participation levels and limited investment in the process hinder the participatory exercise. The...

Welcome to EURACTIV’s weekly Economy Brief. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. While the public pension reform dominates French political debate, demographic changes will eventually push all EU countries to consider how they finance their pensions systems. One solution?...

Russia sent Ukrainians racing for cover with a rush-hour missile barrage, killing at least one person, the day after Kyiv secured Western pledges of dozens of modern battlefield tanks to try to push back the Russian invasion.

Coal demand in Europe went up for the second consecutive year in 2022, led by “strong growth” in electricity generation, where it has partly replaced gas as a backup power source, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Czech foreign minister Jan Lipavsky writes that it is self-evident that Vladimir Putin and his cronies must be held accountable for planning and ordering a war of aggression — whatever the legal hurdles.

Solemn undertaking before the Court of Justice of the European Union given by six new Members of the European Court of Auditors

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog called on MEPs to work to eradicate antisemitism in Europe and adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism.

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Israel’s President Isaac Herzog called on MEPs to work to eradicate antisemitism in Europe and adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism.

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Can the EU Mission in Armenia (EUMA), agreed on by the EU Council this week, contribute to stabilising a conflict that the International Crisis Group considers one of the 10 most risky conflicts for 2023, ask Mail Negi and Tobias Pietz.

District heating is one of the main sources of heat for the Poles, and the Polish district heating sector is one of the largest in the European Union. With such a scale of district heating usage, every aspect of regulation is of great importance in the context of the need to ensure adequate supplies and conduct a capital-consuming investments to complete the transformation of this sector.

The power struggle between authoritarian powers reached a new level of intensity with the invasion of Ukraine. But it is important to remember that this fight plays out across the entire globe and sometimes in unexpected places, Juan Carlos Ondo Angue writes.

An extraordinary joint meeting of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE) and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, in association with the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee, will take place on Tuesday, 31 January 2023 from 15.00 - 16.30hrs in Brussels (room SPAAK 1A002).

The next ordinary meeting of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE) is scheduled to take place on Monday, 6 February 2023 from 15.30 - 19.30hrs in Brussels (room SPINELLI 3G2).

The meeting agenda and documents will be published here.

SEDE missions 2023:

• Bosnia and Herzegovina - 20-23 February 2023
  

SEDE missions 2022:

• SEDE mission to South Korea and Japan - 18-22 December 2022
  
  
• SEDE mission to Niger from 31 October - 3 November 2022
  
  
• SEDE mission to Mozambique from 18-22 September 2022
  
  
• SEDE mission to France from 19-21 July 2022
  
  
• SEDE mission to Iraq from 24-28 May 2022

• SEDE mission to Georgia from 10-14 April 2022

SEDE meetings' calendar 2023
EP calendar 2023
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DRAFT OPINION on the implementation of “passerelle” clauses in the EU Treaties
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Tineke Strik

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The aviation industry is in a period of transformation as passengers and Brussels regulators increasingly demand more sustainable air travel. A mixture of measures are on the table to cut emissions, from ramping up sustainable aviation fuels to greening airports and plotting more efficient routes.

On 24 January, AFET and SEDE will hold a joint exchange of views with Ambassador Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the IAEA has been working tirelessly to ensure the safety and security of Ukrainian nuclear facilities.
The debate will focus on negotiations launched by the IAEA with Ukraine and Russia with a view to establishing a safe zone around Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, as well as other measures taken by the IAEA to prevent nuclear accidents on all Ukrainian nuclear sites. Members will also discuss other issues of concern, in particular Iran's flagrant violations of its international nuclear non-proliferation obligations, as well as the nuclear programme of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Speaking points of the IAEA Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi
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This article was updated with a correction on the role of the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications. The United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is considering opening up a new office in Brussels amid calls from EU countries to...

Inspecţia Judiciară
External relations
Judicial Disciplinary Bodies: according to Advocate General Collins, EU law precludes national legislation making the Deputy Chief Inspector responsible for overseeing the investigation of complaints against the Chief Inspector

Ministerstvo na vatreshnite raboti () and génétiques par la police)
Principles of Community law
The systematic collection of biometric and genetic data of any accused person in order for them to be entered in a police record is contrary to the requirement of ensuring enhanced protection with regard to the processing of sensitive personal data

On 24 January, AFET and SEDE will hold a joint exchange of views with Ambassador Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the IAEA has been working tirelessly to ensure the safety and security of Ukrainian nuclear facilities.
The debate will focus on negotiations launched by the IAEA with Ukraine and Russia with a view to establishing a safe zone around Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, as well as other measures taken by the IAEA to prevent nuclear accidents on all Ukrainian nuclear sites. Members will also discuss other issues of concern, in particular Iran's flagrant violations of its international nuclear non-proliferation obligations, as well as the nuclear programme of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Speaking points of the IAEA Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi
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