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The Ukrainian government submitted to parliament on Tuesday (30 January) an amended version of its bill to tighten army mobilisation rules to ensure the country has a sufficient fighting force to pursue its campaign against Russia's invasion.

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski praised Germany’s progress in supporting Ukraine during his trip to Berlin on Tuesday, recalling his famous speech on German inaction when he held the same position in 2011.

The Czech government, MEPs and the Czech Road Association are calling for an immediate response to incidents in which protesting French farmers stopped Czech lorry drivers, destroyed non-French agricultural products on board and, according to reports, sometimes assaulted the drivers.

CO2 Value Europe launches a first-of-a-kind quantitative assessment of the contribution of Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) towards climate neutrality in the EU. By 2050, at least 20% of GHG reduction from technologies will come from CCU.

The Portuguese economy grew 2.2% year-on-year and 0.8% quarter-on-quarter in the last quarter of 2023, escaping the technical recession and guaranteeing GDP growth of 2.3% for the whole year, Portugal’s national statistics institute INE revealed on Tuesday.

The Spanish Parliament will resume negotiations on a draft amnesty law for Catalan independence supporters responsible for the 2017 secession attempt after it was rejected by the lower house on Tuesday (January 30) when the Catalan party Junts demanded that its scope be broadened.

Images of an Italian woman being shackled and chained at a court hearing in Budapest have sparked a huge debate in Italy, with leaders urged to do something about the situation, even though her family say they have already complained about the conditions of her year-long detention.

The European Green Party is set for an internal battle over climate targets at a party congress this weekend, with the German Greens pushing to postpone the climate neutrality goals by five years and scrap parts of the gas and oil phase-out policies.

German climate activist group “Last Generation” will refrain from gluing themselves to the streets as their main form of protest, instead opting for bigger events and more targetted interference.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and French President Emmanuel Macron signed agreements to strengthen military ties on the first day of Macron’s two-day visit to the country, during which he has already repeated his call for greater EU sovereignty amid increasingly tense geopolitics and the chance of Donald Trump returning to the White House.

The Parliament and member states struck a deal on the so-called breakfast directive, which includes measures improving the transparency on the origin of the bees’ product. Honey is one of the most adulterated foods.

The EU-Mercosur trade agreement should be split into two distinctive parts to circumvent French resistance based on agricultural issues, the German car industry has proposed, in a bid to boost export markets other than China.

The European Commission said on Tuesday (30 January) it had launched surprise inspections of tyre companies in several EU countries after suspicions of price collusion.

Following the European Commission's proposal to revise the European Parliamentary committees' setup, most political groups prefer to keep the existing structure, a source from the European Parliament close to the matter told Euractiv.

In deflecting blame for farmers' malaise to Brussels, by pointing the finger at the EU's trade policy and 'red tape', the French government runs the risk of coming across as “hypocritical”, with little political gain.

While EU member states are expected to pledge continued military support to Ukraine this week, hurdles for a future funding scheme remain.

EU diplomats working in Brussels and abroad face staffing challenges, not receiving enough guidance from headquarters and struggle with intelligence and information sharing due to slow and opaque computer systems, according to a new report by the bloc's internal auditors.

The UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is expected to share details regarding the deal to restore power-sharing in Northern Ireland on Wednesday (31 January), though the deal will not bear any major changes to the Windsor Framework. 

As February's deadline to implement the Digital Services Act is fast approaching, Berlin is lagging in doing its homework for Europe's brand-new content moderation regulation.

France is going to regularise the situation of foreign doctors working in the country, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced during his general policy speech to the National Assembly on Tuesday (30 January).