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Although Polish access to novel cancer medicines has improved significantly, Poland still lags many EU countries for availability of innovative therapies, retaining one of the longest waiting periods in Europe between drug registration and reimbursement, according to a new report.

Amid a startling surge in whooping cough cases in Czechia, health experts and officials have raised the alarm over the escalating situation, the Czech State Health Institute describing it as the worst outbreak in a decade.

The European Parliament legal affairs committee (JURI) unanimously decided that Eva Kaili's immunity defence is inadmissible in the context of the Qatargate investigation, because everything was done 'by the book', a note from the parliamentary committee, seen by Euractiv, states.

The European Parliament voted in support of longer and heavier trucks on EU roads on Tuesday (12 March), adopting its position on a new law that will also see the harmonisation of the cross-border movement of these trucks. 

Spanish tax authorities are investigating the partner of Madrid regional president Isabel Díaz Ayuso for alleged fraud involving false invoices and front companies for the supply of medical equipment during the worst years of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, in what is the latest pandemic-related scandal to hit the country in the past two weeks.

The EU executive published on Tuesday (12 March) a delegated regulation to allow more flexibility to member states when applying one of the 'good agricultural and environmental conditions' (GAECs), the environmental requisites to receive EU subsidies. 

The 2020s have been a great decade for Austrian communists so far. In 2021, a communist became mayor of Graz, the country’s second-largest city, and a year later, a sprouting of the communists won 12% in Salzburg’s state election and might now get a mayor too.

The European wind industry is starting 2024 with new optimism. An uptick in permitting, new investments and auction volumes has brought the EU’s 2030 wind energy target within reach. But there is absolutely no room for complacency.

The European Parliament rubber-stamped a revised version of the EU’s rules on emissions generated by industrial installations, which will extend to more pig and poultry farms, despite efforts from right-wing lawmakers to topple the law during a final vote in Strasbourg on Tuesday (12 March).

In Strasbourg, EU lawmakers adopted the controversial Energy Performance of Buildings Directive with a large majority, putting the law one step away from conclusion.

EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides addressed for the first time the concerns among EU lawmakers and health stakeholders about a planned €1 billion cut in the EU's main funding programme for health, saying a comprehensive assessment was still needed. 

The European Parliament’s Environment Committee (ENVI) on Monday evening (11 March) adopted a draft report on the EU’s first soil law, taking the first step towards healthy soils by 2050 by requiring countries to improve the ecological status of their soils within six to ten years. 

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Global trade is increasingly vulnerable to changes in the geopolitical environment. While the Ukraine crisis and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict continue unabated, a shipping crisis which appeared in the Red Sea is causing serious disruptions to global supply chains.

France's far-right Rassemblement National (RN) surpassed 30% in the latest polls for the European elections, moving further away from its main rival - President Emmanuel Macron's fading Renaissance party - while its far-right rival Reconquête! slipped and the Socialists clawed back some ground.

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) expressed its disappointment on Tuesday (March 12) about a treaty on Artificial Intelligence (AI) negotiated in Strasbourg this week, saying it has veered far from its original purpose.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Sweden making it ‘home’ as their flag is hoisted at the NATO headquarters, the Polish foreign minister acknowledging NATO’s presence in Ukraine and the Kremlin responding, and so much more.

Castelion, a startup trying to build a hypersonic weapon for the Pentagon, tested its system for the first time, it said on Monday (11 March), as a growing group of small hypersonic arms makers challenge large defense contractors with less expensive, rapidly produced products.

The Post Office Bank of Serbia has opened four makeshift bank branches, Jarinje, Bernjak, Konculj, and Merdare border crossing points, where it says Kosovo Serbs can withdraw payments from the Serbian government, such as salaries and pensions, in dinar.

The statement follows multiple experts’ warnings that the rules will render it “impossible” for the EU to achieve its net-zero target by 2050.