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Putin says Russia will not attack NATO, but F-16s will be shot down in Ukraine

Thu, 2024-03-28 07:10
Russia has no designs on any NATO country and will not attack Poland, the Baltic states or the Czech Republic but if the West supplies F-16 fighters to Ukraine then they will be shot down by Russian forces, President Vladimir Putin said late on Wednesday (27 March).
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Romania’s pretext for not taking steps to reduce energy consumption slammed

Thu, 2024-03-28 07:03
Romania's justification for not implementing measures to reduce energy consumption in recent years, as other EU countries have done, is not convincing, argues Energia Inteligentă, a Romanian professional energy association.
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France’s Total gives up exploration of Bulgaria’s largest gas field

Thu, 2024-03-28 07:02
French multi-energy company TotalEnergies is withdrawing from oil and gas exploration in the potential Khan Asparuh field in northern Bulgarian waters of the Black Sea, an annual report by the project's other partner, Romania's OMV Petrom, quoted by Bulgarian Capital Weekly, reads.
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Portuguese parliament elects PSD MP as speaker in fourth vote

Thu, 2024-03-28 07:00
Social Democrat MP José Pedro Aguiar-Branco (PSD, EPP) was elected parliament speaker on Wednesday, with 160 out of 230 MPs in favour at the fourth attempt.
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Reynders’ Council of Europe bid complicates renewal of Spain’s top legal body

Thu, 2024-03-28 07:00
EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders' candidacy for the presidency of the Council of Europe has further complicated the negotiations over the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) between Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's ruling PSOE party and right-wing Partido Popular (PP/EPP), which have so far been mediated by Reynders.
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EU elections: Italian centre-left rallies behind ‘United States of Europe’ bid

Thu, 2024-03-28 06:57
Former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (Italia Viva) and the leader of +Europa party, Emma Bonino plan to run at the European election with a joint “United States of Europe” list.
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French MPs adopt bill on foreign interference

Thu, 2024-03-28 06:55
Lawmakers in the French National Assembly on Wednesday backed a bill proposed by President Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance party to combat foreign interference by a large majority of 171 votes to 25.
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Czechs sanction Medvedchuk, website over pro-Russian EU political influence

Thu, 2024-03-28 06:54
The Czech government on Wednesday (27 March) sanctioned two people including pro-Russian Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk and the news website voiceofeurope.com for leading a pro-Russian influence operation in Europe, the Czech Foreign Ministry said.
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Commission on alert after unexpected changes in Greece’s EU-funded HPV testing

Thu, 2024-03-28 06:48
Some 2.5 million Greek women could face long waits in accessing testing for human papillomavirus (HPV), a leading cause of cervical cancer, as a government initiative, financed by the EU, unexpectedly changed the technical requirements for healthcare companies to participate and is set to be scrutinised by the European Commission.
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Bavarian EPP chief defies party line on EU’s China tariffs

Thu, 2024-03-28 06:48
Bavaria’s Minister-President Markus Söder broke with his centre-right party line and spoke out against EU tariffs on Chinese goods during a visit to China on Wednesday, where he also criticised the French.
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Poland on track to face ‘explosion’ of public debt, Commission, expert warn

Thu, 2024-03-28 06:48
Poland’s public debt is set to rise to almost 80% of the country’s GDP by 2034, according to the European Commission’s latest report – an assessment economist Jakub Sawulki finds pessimistic, although he warns that current trends do point to skyrocketing public debt.
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Foreign firms’ losses from exiting Russia top $107 billion

Thu, 2024-03-28 06:24
The corporate exodus from Russia since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine has cost foreign companies more than $107 billion in writedowns and lost revenue, a Reuters analysis of company filings and statements showed.
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EU says plan to ensure critical raw materials supply is not aimed at China

Thu, 2024-03-28 06:08
A senior European Union official denied that the bloc’s recently agreed-upon plan to diversify its supply of strategically critical raw materials targets China, a move interpreted as aimed at easing increasingly fraught relations between Beijing and Brussels
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Russia says it is hard to believe Islamic State could have launched Moscow attack

Thu, 2024-03-28 06:07
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday (27 March) that it was "extremely hard to believe" that Islamic State would have had the capacity to launch an attack on a Moscow concert hall last Friday that killed at least 143 people.
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Concern over Commission’s relaxing of environmental requirements for farmers

Thu, 2024-03-28 06:00
On this episode of our daily Today in the EU podcast we break down the concerns expressed regarding the European Commission’s decision to loosen the environmental requirements.
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Consumers must be at heart of EU energy-saving interoperability efforts, says VizLore director [Advocacy Lab Content]

Thu, 2024-03-28 04:50
Europe has ample new technologies to improve energy efficiency and save CO2, but getting those technologies connected and used efficiently is problematic, said Milenko Tošić, director of innovation at VizLore Labs Foundation.
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Biodiversity experts alarmed by resistance to reversing ecosystem degradation [Advocacy Lab Content]

Thu, 2024-03-28 04:03
As uncertainty mounts on the adoption of the Nature Restoration Law (NRL), biodiversity experts sound the alarm against further resistance to reversing decades of ecosystem degradation.
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Europe’s human-animal bond, a special report on EU companion animals [Advocacy Lab Content]

Wed, 2024-03-27 22:51
A Human-Animal Bond Report was launched at the EU Companion Animals Stakeholder Summit on 20 March in Brussels, advocating advancements in companion animal policy to improve human and animal health and wellbeing.
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Yes, to pet-friendly EU policies, but do we need a commissioner for animals? asks Kaljurand [Advocacy Lab Content]

Wed, 2024-03-27 22:33
MEP Marina Kaljurand (S&D) has questioned whether the European Commission should include a commissioner dedicated to animals, despite the proven benefits of pet ownership.
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Sustainable democracies need a sustainable media sector, says Jourová [Advocacy Lab Content]

Wed, 2024-03-27 22:07
Our democracies need a sustainable media sector, Věra Jourová, European Commission Vice-President for Values and Transparency, told participants of the recent Stars4Media conference in Brussels.
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