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Long-awaited agreement on EU sky rules does not satisfy aviation industry

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-07 18:17
Aviation industry stakeholders are displeased with the revised text of the Single European Sky (SES), informally adopted by the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament on Wednesday (6 March), stating that the agreement does not go far enough to reduce delays or improve air travel capacity.
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French health agency report challenges proposed EU rules on gene-edited plants

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-07 17:59
France's national health and food safety agency published a report on Wednesday (6 March) recommending that gene-edited plants be assessed "on a case-by-case basis", calling into question a legal text currently being negotiated in the EU institutions.
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Brazil, Spain ‘ready’ to sign EU-Mercosur trade deal despite France’s opposition

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-07 17:43
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reaffirmed his readiness to seal a long-stalled trade deal between the EU and the Mercosur bloc during a meeting with Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Brasilia on Wednesday (6 March). 
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Gig work file set to become key campaign fight for the French left

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-07 17:35
The adoption of the platform work directive by member states in the next few days is highly uncertain, with Paris refusing to agree to the current text draft – and the French left is ready to put it at the heart of its campaign agenda.
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Sweden officially joins NATO, ends 200 years of military non-alignment

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-07 17:27
Sweden on Thursday (7 March) became NATO's 32nd member after Prime Minister Kristersson handed over the accession documents to the US State Department, ending more than two centuries of military non-alignment.
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Three pornography sites sue EU over digital rulebook compliance

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-07 17:03
The three pornography websites included on the Digital Services Act’s very large online platforms list are suing the EU over their new obligations, Euractiv learned on Thursday (7 March).
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The Brief – How broken is the Franco-German engine?

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-07 16:20
Relations between France and Germany have entered an ice age under President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Olaf Scholz, an unprecedented state of affairs that contrasts sharply with the iconic photo of Francois Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl holding hands at Verdun in 1984.
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EU Parliament’s trade committee approves renewal of Ukraine trade benefits

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-07 16:16
The European Parliament's trade committee rejected all of the amendments backed by farming groups on the proposal to suspend import duties and quotas on agricultural products from Ukraine, paving the way for a swift adoption of the decision at the EU level.
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Europe must address soil degradation and act for soil restoration [Promoted content]

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-07 16:00
Ahead of the vote on 11 March in the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee in the European Parliament on the Soil Monitoring and Resilience Directive, experts underline the urgency to adopt an EU legislative framework addressing the rapid...
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French banks keep financing tobacco industry, despite promises

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-07 15:31
Since 2018, French banks have granted more than five billion dollars in loans to the tobacco industry, according to a report by the investigative organisation Profundo, commissioned by the French Alliance Against Tobacco (ACT) and published on Wednesday (6 March).
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EU is too dependent on animal feed and fertiliser imports, warns Parliament study

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-07 15:21
The EU remains heavily reliant on animal feed and fertilisers imports from outside the bloc, as highlighted in a recent study commissioned by the European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee (AGRI).
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Deepfakes and the possible risks for the EU elections

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-07 14:26
Artificial intelligence, deepfakes, social media, and misinformation have become integral parts of our daily lives, and their influence on political elections, possibly including the upcoming EU elections in June, is significant.
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Top EU court finds widely employed consent system violates EU privacy regulation

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-07 14:23
The European Court of Justice on Thursday (7 March) found the Belgian association IAB Europe's consent system for auctioning personal data in breach of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation.
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Liberal Renew manifesto sneak peek and bits from Bucharest congress

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-07 13:53
Ahead of Renew Europe’s grand electoral launch on 20 March, Euractiv took a sneak peek at their lead candidates and manifesto, which focuses on competitiveness, defence, and the need to shift from creating new Green legislation to implementing the existing laws and give the industry breathing space.
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Sharp rise in sexually transmitted infections in Europe, warns EU health agency

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-07 13:16
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) warned that there is a need for action to address the significant rise in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the EU/EEA.
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Departing from coal: Poland’s new energy roadmap

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-07 12:51
The election of a new government in Poland has enabled this Central European country to revive its ambitions in terms of energy transition and to meet European targets.
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Von der Leyen crowned EPP lead candidate, switches to campaign mode

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-07 12:26
Delegates at the European People’s Party’s (EPP) congress in Bucharest officially elected EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday (7 March) to become the party’s lead candidate for June’s European election.
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Ten questions for the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-07 11:56
Dick Roche’s recent commentary Preaching transparency but not practicing it” prompted many reactions, but none from the institution in focus: the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA). The author comes back with 10 questions concerning its handling of the Euroins case in Romania.
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All eyes on Italy, France as swing states on ‘heavily’ revised EU supply-chain law

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-07 11:36
Italian and French envoys are set to hold the fate of the EU corporate due diligence law (CSDDD) in their hands on Friday (8 March), when representatives from the bloc’s 27 member states vote on a new, heavily diluted version of the draft legislation.
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EU’s Ukraine war fund remains stuck with France’s ‘buy-European’ demand

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-07 10:45
France’s request for the EU's Ukraine war fund to include a 'buy-European'-clause when countries purchase armament together keeps complicating member states’ efforts to find an agreement on the file before the next EU summit on 21-22 March.
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