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Bulgaria investing over €295 million in key pipeline for Balkans
Bulgaria has decided to invest more than €295 million in the so-called ‘Vertical Corridor,’ a key initiative between seven Balkan countries’ gas transmission operators to reduce reliance on Russian gas.
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France fines Google for failing to pay media companies
French regulators said Wednesday (20 March) they were fining Google €250 million for breaching commitments on paying media companies for reproducing their content online and for using their material for its AI chatbot without telling them.
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Warsaw blames EU Commissioner Wojciechowski for farmers’ protests
Polish EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski is to blame for the problems that led to farmers’ protests in Poland, Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s office said in response to a letter the EU official sent to the prime minister, adding that he should “get on with his job”.
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Costa given farewell gift by European Council
Portugal’s outgoing Prime Minister António Costa (PS) will receive a statuette alluding to the headquarters of the European Council at what will be his last EU summit in Brussels after eight years in power.
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Spain’s VOX hopes to ‘restore the sovereignty of nations’ in EU bid
Spain’s far-right VOX party, now parliament’s third-largest force, will launch its EU election manifesto, under the slogan “Europe Alive 24”, at its annual party conference on 18-19 May, party sources confirmed on Wednesday.
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Russian confrontation needs to be dealt with, says Swedish FM
Russia has significantly worsened Europe and Sweden’s security policy, and its confrontational approach must be dealt with, Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström noted in his foreign policy statement to the Swedish parliament on the occasion of Sweden’s recent accession to NATO.
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Macron’s camp on alert as rival leftist EU list rises in polls
The joint EU election list formed by the French Socialist Party and leftist “Place Publique” led by Raphaël Glucksmann scored 13% in polls published on Wednesday and could be a cause for concern within Macron’s Renaissance camp that their core voter base is shifting to the left.
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UN says Russia consolidates control of occupied Ukraine with ‘climate of fear’
Russia is illegally consolidating its control over occupied Ukrainian territory by creating a "climate of fear" with practices such as arbitrary detention, killings and torture, the head of a UN reporting mission in Ukraine said.
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AI Act’s global effects might be overstated, experts say
The policymakers behind the EU's AI Act, passed by the European Parliament with a large majority on 13 March, aimed to set a new global standard for regulating the technology, but not everyone agrees the impact will be as vast as promised.
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EU leaders gather with a message: ‘Russia must not prevail’
In this episode of our daily podcast Today in the EU, we are looking at EU leaders gathering in Brussels on 21-22 March
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As Europe wakes up to Russia’s danger, it faces tough spending trade-offs
Facing a new sense of urgency, EU leaders are set to meet in Brussels on Thursday (21 March) to discuss making military support to Ukraine more sustainable while ramping up their own defences.
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Low appetite for EU liberals’ election campaign kick-off
EU liberals kicked off their campaign for June's European election to a muted reception, amid internal divisions that have forced the multi-party alliance to agree on a joint electoral programme of the lowest common denominators.
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EU leaders divided over how to finance weapons
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, ramping up EU defence industry production has been on the agenda of member states' leaders, but it is only slowly beginning to gain traction.
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Europe’s wind industry braved a hurricane, now green transition goals are in sight [Advocacy Lab Content]
Europe’s ever-challenged wind industry gathered in Bilbao, Spain, where the industry stressed its value to policymakers, celebrated legislative wins, and pointed to a less turbulent horizon.
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Lobby groups call for business-friendly turn of the EU Green Deal
Ahead of the European Parliament elections in June, business groups have presented their wish lists for the next legislative cycle, focussing on simplifying rules and paperwork but not calling to turn away from climate policy.
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The Outsiders, Maylis Roßberg and Raül Romeva – EFA’s Spitzenkandidaten [Advocacy Lab Content]
At the European Free Alliance (EFA) General Assembly, the party’s two Spitzenkandidaten, Maylis Roßberg and Raül Romeva, sat down with Euractiv’s Jennifer Baker to discuss their brand of politics and the 2024 campaign.
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EU Parliament’s compromise on pharma revision ‘a mixed bag’, says health organisation
For health organisations, the EU Parliament’s public health committee’s (ENVI) agreed compromise on the revision of the EUs pharmaceutical legislation could go further.
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EU agrees to renew Ukraine trade benefits, but deal still in the limbo
The Parliament and the Council found a compromise to prolong the trade liberalisation until June 2025 ensuring an ‘emergency brake’ in case of excessive imports of certain food products from Kyiv, but the EU Ambassadors postponed their final decision while the European Parliament Trade Committee approved it.
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Getting smarter? Europe struggling with smart energy efficiency interconnectivity [Advocacy Lab Content]
One of the biggest obstacles to deploying energy efficiency solutions is the part of it you can’t see - the lack of data interoperability between various components. Europe is struggling to ensure smart energy efficiency is truly interconnected.
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