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Prioritizing Brain Health in the European Union: Closing the Treatment Gap [Promoted content]
Angelini Pharma's CSO Rafal Kaminski, underscores the rising burden of brain diseases, advocating global attention to brain health. The Headway initiative is presented as a collaborative platform promoting harmonization programs and European guidelines, emphasizing science's crucial role in evidence-based decision-making.
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Emergency Caribbean summit to address Haiti gang crisis
Envoys from key nations will meet Monday (11 March) in the Caribbean to address the spiraling situation in Haiti, as gang violence crippled the impoverished island nation's capital and forced foreign diplomats to flee over the weekend.
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Portuguese elections: Far-right skyrockets, instability prevails
The Portuguese didn't respond to the calls for a “useful vote” in Sunday's legislative elections, resulting in the “most fragmented parliament ever” and with far right Chega being the “big winner”, according to political experts who spoke to Euractiv’s partner Lusa.
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Gaza aid ship waiting to sail from Cyprus as charity builds jetty
A ship carrying tonnes of food for Gaza remained docked in a Cyprus port on Sunday (10 March) as preparations were underway to launch a yet untested maritime aid route to the enclave, where the UN estimates a quarter of the population faces starvation.
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Combustion engine ban least popular climate policy in Germany, France, Poland, survey shows
The EU’s 2035 ban on new cars with internal combustion engines is the least popular climate protection measure in Germany, France, and Poland, even among voters of centre-left parties, a new survey conducted in the three countries showed.
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Political manoeuvring intensifies ahead of June EU elections
On the very first episode of our daily podcast Today in the EU, we are taking a deep dive into the upcoming European Parliamentary elections.
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Swedish opposition critical of government efforts to limit hospital layoffs [Advocacy Lab Content]
In a bid to stem massive layoffs in Sweden’s emergency hospitals, the Swedish government wants to allocate an extra €530 million to the health sector. But the opposition and Swedens regions say it's not enough.
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Stop regulating biosolutions as chemicals, requests Novonesis CEO [Advocacy Lab Content]
Fresh from a company merger, Novonesis CEO Ester Baiget came to Brussels with an important ask – to create a level playing field for biosolutions; arguing it makes no sense to treat enzymes and proteins as if they were manmade.
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Bulgarians exposed to rare diseases health risks by bureaucracy [Advocacy Lab Content]
Bulgaria's lack of a comprehensive strategy for rare diseases now poses a serious risk to patient health. Insufficient screening has left Bulgarians with rare diseases diagnosed late, or not at all, while fewer orphan drugs are available on average.
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Belgian MEP proposes custom orphan drug exclusivity for innovation in untreated areas [Advocacy Lab Content]
Belgian MEP Frederique Ries has proposed tailoring market exclusivity periods for orphan drugs to foster innovation, advocating a 12-year exclusivity period for orphan drug indications lacking authorised medicinal products in the EU.
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Expect European defence to become election battleground
In this week's edition: A European defence battle, a Nordic security shift and more.
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Armenia is considering seeking EU membership, foreign minister says
Armenia is considering applying for European Union membership, foreign minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Friday (8 March), as it seeks to forge closer ties with the West in the face of tensions with traditional ally Russia.
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False GPS signal surge near warzones makes life hard for pilots
False GPS signals that deceive on-board plane systems and complicate the work of airline pilots are surging near conflict zones, industry employees and officials said.
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Trump, Biden trade salvos in Georgia face-off
A defiant and bitter Donald Trump returned on Saturday (9 March) to the state where he faces criminal charges for undermining the 2020 US presidential election, looking to win the battleground of Georgia as a stepping-stone to taking back the presidency.
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US, UK, French military shoot down Houthi drones after attack on bulk carrier, destroyers
US, French and British forces downed dozens of drones in the Red Sea area overnight and on Saturday (9 March) after Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis targeted bulk carrier Propel Fortune and US destroyers in the region, the US military said in a statement.
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US embassy warns of imminent attack in Moscow by ‘extremists’
The US embassy in Russia warned that "extremists" had imminent plans for an attack in Moscow, hours after Russian security services said they had foiled a planned shooting at a synagogue by a cell from the Afghan arm of Islamic State.
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Erdoğan offers to host Ukraine-Russia peace summit after meeting Zelenskyy
Turkey is ready to host a summit between Ukraine and Russia to end the war, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Friday (8 March) after talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Istanbul.
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Eurogroup to urge EU to ease ‘regulatory burden’ on financial sector through CMU revival
A draft Eurogroup statement, obtained by Euractiv, outlines multiple “imperative and urgent” reforms that ministers want to be “taken forward” by the next European Commission
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Slovakia faces increasing isolation as allies exclude it from Ukraine meeting
France organised a follow-up teleconference bringing together foreign and defence ministries to discuss the war in Ukraine. However, they 'learned their lesson' and did not invite Slovakia meeting because of its pro-Russian stance.
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The Brief – Is Macron sulking or harbouring last-minute EU plans?
Something is really not going well between the EU centre-right and the liberals, who are expected, together with the socialists, to form a pro-EU coalition in the European Parliament after the elections in June.
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