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New Dutch group reinforces efforts to replace animal testing

Tue, 01/30/2024 - 17:07
Three Dutch research institutions have teamed up to create a steering group to collaborate more intensively in the field of animal research and animal-free innovations.
Categories: European Union

Participatory budgeting: Engaging citizens in decision making

Tue, 01/30/2024 - 17:02
Participatory budgeting is a form of citizen participation in which citizens are involved in the process of deciding how public money is spent. Local people are often given a role in the scrutiny and monitoring of the process following the allocation of budgets.
Categories: European Union

The Brief – Leftists armed with lentils, leaflets, and a climate pretence

Tue, 01/30/2024 - 16:20
A new wave of anti-capitalist leftists claiming to fight for the climate is taking it out on car tyres, risking further damage to a climate movement already gasping for air.
Categories: European Union

Geopolitics expert: EU needs less politics, more strategy for agriculture

Tue, 01/30/2024 - 15:58
Ongoing farmers' protests can be partly attributed to the lack of consideration EU society and policymakers give to agriculture in general and geopolitical terms, Sebastien Abis, director of the agricultural group Club Demeter and research fellow at thinktank IRIS in France, told Euractiv.
Categories: European Union

EU top court finds indiscriminate storing of convicts’ data illegal

Tue, 01/30/2024 - 15:56
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that law enforcement agencies cannot indiscriminately store biometric and genetic data on those who committed criminal offences until their death, it said in a judgement published on Tuesday (30 January).
Categories: European Union

To decarbonise transport, we need solutions, not fantasies

Tue, 01/30/2024 - 15:02
The climate crisis has provoked a raft of new technological solutions, from the ridiculous to the sublime. In defining its transport policy for the coming years, the next European Commission will need to push industry towards sustainable change.
Categories: European Union

Hungary’s foreign influence office ‘makes Moscow look meek’

Tue, 01/30/2024 - 14:12
A new government agency to "protect Hungary's sovereignty" which starts work Thursday (1 February) will have a "chilling effect" on the country's democracy, critics warn.
Categories: European Union

EU lawmakers signal support for upcoming ‘Industry Decarbonisation Deal’

Tue, 01/30/2024 - 14:01
Key EU lawmakers have asked the European Commission to present a package to boost the climate-friendly transformation of Europe’s industrial sector while expressing concerns about social stability once climate measures start to bite.
Categories: European Union

France’s migration bill follows ‘general trend’ of limiting access to asylum in Europe, expert says

Tue, 01/30/2024 - 13:59
France's controversial immigration law, criticised by opponents as restrictive and racist, is part of an underlying European trend marked by repressive migration policies, particularly concerning access to the right of asylum, an expert told Euractiv.
Categories: European Union

Food as movies: The agricultural exception is gaining traction in France

Tue, 01/30/2024 - 13:22
France's far-right Rassemblement National and far-left LFI are proposing to introduce a form of 'agricultural exception' - which, as is already the case for the arts, would exempt some agricultural products from the EU's free trade agreements with other countries.
Categories: European Union

Bulgaria issues European arrest warrant for six Russian spies suspected of terrorism

Tue, 01/30/2024 - 12:02
The Bulgarian prosecutor's office issued on Tuesday (30 January) a European arrest warrant for six Russian spies suspected of terrorist attacks targeting Bulgarian arms factories and warehouses.
Categories: European Union

EU does not need to wait for the AI Act to act

Tue, 01/30/2024 - 11:40
As it waits for the AI Act to take effect, Brussels should use its existing powers under competition law and the Digital Markets Act to challenge Big Tech’s growing influence over AI, writes Max von Thun.
Categories: European Union

German steelmaker states signal support for US-EU industry alliance

Tue, 01/30/2024 - 10:00
An alliance of German steelmaking states have put their weight behind a global sustainable steel club that the US hopes will reduce China's ability to undercut European and American markets, and welcomed the support for the industry’s green transition.
Categories: European Union

Macron leaves angry farmers for soon-to-be NATO member Sweden

Tue, 01/30/2024 - 08:36
French President Emmanuel Macron begins a two-day state visit to Sweden on Tuesday (30 January), with the Nordic country on the cusp of becoming a NATO member following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Categories: European Union

Georgian prime minister resigns ahead of parliamentary elections

Tue, 01/30/2024 - 08:18
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili resigned from office on Monday (29 January), saying he wanted to allow his replacement time to prepare for parliamentary elections due in the South Caucasus country by October.
Categories: European Union

Europe’s quantum tech sees rosy outlook for 2024, report says

Tue, 01/30/2024 - 08:05
A new report published on Tuesday (30 January) by three leading European firms sheds light on several quantum trends for 2024, pointing to steady growth of investments in Europe's quantum start-ups.
Categories: European Union

EU ‘very concerned’ as Venezuela braces for election under Maduro rules

Tue, 01/30/2024 - 07:51
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado insisted Monday (29 January) that elections cannot proceed without her name on the ballot, as the United States announced it was reimposing some sanctions against the country following her disqualification.
Categories: European Union

Commission removes Holocaust remembrance video following Polish backlash

Tue, 01/30/2024 - 07:29
In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the EU Commission removing a Holocaust remembrance video following Polish backlash, the AfD dismissing mass protests as a ‘last ditch effort’ to keep them from power, and so much more.
Categories: European Union

US vows retaliation after drone strike, Qatar sees risk for hostage talks

Tue, 01/30/2024 - 07:29
The United States vowed to take “all necessary actions” to defend American forces after a drone attack killed three US troops in Jordan, while Qatar said it hoped US retaliation would not damage regional security or undercut progress toward a new Gaza hostage-release deal.
Categories: European Union

Albania’s highest court narrowly rules Italy migrant deal constitutional

Tue, 01/30/2024 - 07:11
Albania's Constitutional Court has ruled that the deal signed with Italy to allow the processing of migrants picked up in the Mediterranean by Italy in the northern coastal town of Shëngjin is in line with the constitution.
Categories: European Union

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