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Slovak court halts criminal code reforms amid EU fund suspension threat
Several parts of the criminal code reform were suspended by the Constitutional Court on Wednesday after the EU Commission criticised it and warned that Bratislava could face a fine or the complete suspension of European funds if it goes ahead.
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Macron’s troops to Ukraine message fuels conflict between Plenković, Milanović
The rift between Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković and President Zoran Milanović continued to widen after French President Emmanuel Macron suggested that a future deployment of Western troops in Ukraine should not be ultimately “ruled out”.
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NextGen 2.N0? Conservatives throw spanner into new EU joint borrowing debate
Centre-right and national-conservative groups in the European Parliament have voiced strong opposition to a renewed joint-debt programme at the EU level, after calls for a Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) ‘2.0’ mushroomed over the last few weeks to close a gap for public investments.
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Socialists’ fading influence puts Sánchez and Scholz to the test
The European socialists kick off their EU election campaign in Rome on Saturday (2 March) in a less than jubilant mood: The party is losing its grip on power across Europe, with Germany and Spain the last important strongholds.
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Rome clashes with Budapest over punishment of Italian prisoner
Tensions were high after a meeting between Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and his Hungarian counterpart, Péter Szijjártó after the latter accused Italy of ‘interfering’ with Hungarian justice in the case of Italian prisoner Ilaria Salis.
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Navalny’s funeral takes place under shadow of repression
The funeral of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is scheduled to be held in Moscow on Friday (1 March), with mourners braving the risk of arrest to come and pay their respects.
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Spain’s Supreme Court initiates terrorism investigation against Puigdemont
Spain’s Supreme Court is investigating former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont, who has been on the run since Catalonia’s 2017 secession attempt, in relation to terrorism, a move that puts extra pressure on Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who relies on the separatist’s support to stay in power.
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Portugal at crossroads as far-right advances ahead of snap elections
After Portugal’s snap elections on 10 March, the nation may be at a crossroads in forming a government, given the exponential growth of the far right, from which all other parties promise to keep their distance.
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Following Latvia, Poland considers import bans for Russian, Belarusian grain
Poland will study Latvia’s decision to ban agricultural imports from Russia and Belarus and will look at imposing embargoes for grain to prevent it from destabilising the Polish market, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced at a press conference with his Latvian counterpart, Evika Siliņa.
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Borrell says ‘carnage’ at Gaza aid delivery site ‘totally unacceptable’
European Union foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell denounced late Thursday (29 February) the killing of dozens of Palestinians during an aid delivery in the northern Gaza Strip, calling the deaths "totally unacceptable".
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EU Recovery fund: Commission insists on 2026 deadline as Poland causes headaches
Despite several challenges member states such as Poland face in implementing projects on time under the EU Recovery Fund, the European Commission insists on the agreed 2026 deadline, stressing the fund’s “temporary” nature.
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How social media is shaping the 2024 EU elections
Together with Katja Muñoz, research fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations’ Center for Geopolitics, Geoeconomics, and Technology, we talk about the impact of social media and technology on the 2024 European Parliament elections.
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Is Russia outperforming the EU or simply borrowing from its own future?
Leo Tolstoy’s famous maxim about families could easily be adapted to express an important truth about contemporary geopolitics: the economies of the EU and Russia are both unhappy, but each in its own way.
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US money propping up France’s investment allure, but will it last?
The number of confirmed foreign investments projects in France is on the up for the third year in a row, according to new government data released on Thursday (29 February) – almost a third of which comes from the US, despite growing concerns over labour costs and administrative complexity.
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The Brief – Toward a Ukraine settlement?
Is public opinion in EU countries pushing toward a settlement in Ukraine? A recent study provides food for thought -- and suggests this might be the case.
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There is no drink of moderation, but only the practice of moderation [Promoted content]
Writing in Euractiv recently, the CEO of the World Brewing Alliance, Justin Kissinger, made some remarkable claims that deserve some scrutiny. He began his piece with a reflection on the failure of the US experiment with alcohol prohibition, and a warning about the continuing influence of the temperance movement over global and national policy approaches to alcohol.
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Former top EU official: Polish farmers, stop blaming Kyiv and Brussels for low prices
The way out of the ongoing crisis of food imports is through the EU and its safeguards and not via the "populist" game of blaming it on Ukraine or Brussels, Poland's former deputy minister of agriculture and director general at the European Commission, Jerzy Plewa, told Euractiv in an interview.
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‘We don’t need Russian gas’: Will Austria finally ditch Gazprom?
When Austria was forced to admit in mid-February that Russian gas made up 98% of its recent gas supply – two years after the Kremlin attacked Ukraine – it triggered a political pile-on. Will Austria be able to rid itself of its dependence?
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The vanishing point of courting farmers’ votes
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EU, US draft strict conditions for launch of Galileo satellites from American soil
Brussels and Washington are close to greenlighting the launch of European navigation satellites from US territory this year to avoid service disruption, after two years of delay, Euractiv has learnt.
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