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Europe’s mild winter leaves gas stocks at record high
Europe is on track to end the winter with a record volume of gas in storage, which has pushed futures prices back to pre-crisis levels once inflation is taken into account.
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EPP eyes socialists, liberals for pro-EU coaltion
The centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) eyes a pro-EU, pro-centrist coalition with the socialists and liberals after the EU elections in June, an EPP source familiar with the matter told Euractiv, adding that the Greens for now are not on the radar while ad hoc cooperation with some parties on the right who want to keep distances from extreme rhetoric, is not ruled out.
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Ukraine presses its peace plan in talks with Chinese envoy
Senior Ukrainian officials, in a meeting with a Chinese regional envoy on Thursday (7 March), pressed Kyiv's plan to end the two-year conflict with Russia and presented what they said was evidence of North Korean weaponry supplied to Moscow.
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Romanian European funds minister displeased with 3% deficit obligation
Romania must escape the poverty paradigm if it wants to be a prosperous country, Investment and European Projects Minister Adrian Câciu said on Thursday in reference to the Maastricht Treaty, which states that a nation’s debt cannot exceed 3% of GDP.
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Sarajevo works on approving key reforms to join EU as deadline approaches
The Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina unanimously adopted and sent to parliament the draft law on the prevention of conflicts of interest in the state institutions, one of the key reform laws the EU insists on so the European Council can decide on opening accession negotiations by the end of this month, they announced on Wednesday.
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Slovakia summons Dutch ambassador over embassy event in Prague
The Slovak Foreign Ministry summoned the Dutch ambassador to Slovakia, claiming that the Dutch had interfered in Slovakia’s internal affairs by offering the premises of their embassy in Prague for a discussion on the political situation in Slovakia.
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Czech government reveals plans for new gigafactory, investor name withheld
Plans for constructing a gigafactory for the production of batteries for electric cars worth €7.9 billion by a foreign investor - whose name is being withheld - in the Karviná region were disclosed by the Czech government on Thursday.
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EU Commission denounces Wojciechowski’s announcement on Green Deal changes
Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski’s announcement of major changes to the European Green Deal is his own view and does not reflect the position of the EU executive, a Commission spokesman said on Thursday.
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New forest monitoring data framework needs to get below the tree line [Advocacy Lab Content]
The EU’s new and evolving forest monitoring framework has lawmakers contesting the benefits of harvesting optimum broad data sets, weighted against cost burdens for the forestry industry in acquiring the data.
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US to build temporary port to deliver Gaza aid
The US military will establish a temporary port off Gaza's coast to bring in desperately needed aid, President Joe Biden announced Thursday (7 March), in a major operation as Israel holds up deliveries on the ground.
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Promote Women’s Safety in Our Streets. Join the #SafePlace4Women campaign! [Promoted content]
On the International Women's Day, the PES Group in the European Committee of the Regions calls upon cities and regions to adopt an ambitious plan to combat violence against women with concrete measures. Join the campaign
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Portugal’s right-wing likely to win elections but ‘surprises’ possible
A victory for the right-wing bloc in Sunday’s general elections in Portugal is the most likely scenario, but there is uncertainty whether there will be a need for an agreement with the far-right Chega party, according to two political analysts who spoke to Euractiv’s partner Lusa, adding that there could be ‘surprises’.
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Spain strikes Catalan amnesty deal, paves way for full Sánchez term
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist Party, which leads a minority left-wing coalition government with the progressive Sumar platform, reached a final deal with Catalan pro-independence parties to pardon separatist leaders in exchange for their parliamentary support to keep Sánchez in power until the end of his second term in 2027.
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Estonia’s Kallas, Luxembourg’s Bettel rule out EU liberals lead candidate job
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas confirmed on Thursday she will not be ALDE’s spitzenkandidat for the EU elections as the party scrambles to find the perfect match ahead of their electoral congress.
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Italy on the right track despite record-breaking public debt, says OECD expert
Italy’s record public debt – one of the highest debt-to-GDP ratios in the world – is not a cause for concern as the country is still on the right track, the OECD’s Director for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, Carmine di Niola, told Euractiv in an interview.
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Biden takes on Trump and Republicans in feisty State of the Union speech
President Joe Biden took on Donald Trump in a fiery speech to Congress on Thursday (7 March), accusing his election rival of threatening US democracy and kowtowing to Russia, as he laid out his case for four more years in the White House.
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German-British Strategic Dialogue: Taurus discussion impossible to ignore
UK’s Foreign Minister David Cameron visited his counterpart, Annalena Bearbock, in Berlin on Thursday to discuss, among other things, support for Ukraine, including the provision of long-range missile systems.
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Invest in women: Ending the patriarchy requires money on the table
The fight for women’s rights over the past fifty years is a story of progress. But that progress is under threat and full equality remains light years away, writes António Guterres.
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Georgieva gathering support for second term as IMF chief
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva is interested in a second five-year term heading up the global lender and is poised to secure sufficient support among member countries, sources familiar with the plans said.
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Mergers and partnerships: 2024’s successes, surprises, and failures so far
Together with Lazar Radic, Senior Scholar for Competition Policy at the International Center for Law & Economics, and Adjunct Professor of Law at IE University, we discuss this year’s tech competition news so far
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