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Fri, 11/24/2023 - 11:18
The EU’s Hydrogen Bank has begun operations and is offering €800 million to hydrogen producers to kickstart demand for the fuel crucial to industrial decarbonisation. By 2030, Europe wants to produce 10 million tonnes of renewable hydrogen annually. To get...
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:30
The EU's top military adviser called on more efforts from EU countries to buy into the future Rapid Deployment Capacity and future conflicts, counting on financial support from the EU to do so, general Robert Brieger told Euractiv in an interview, while post-war support to Ukraine is already being discussed.
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:18
In an interview with Euractiv France, Manon Aubry, lead candidate of the left-wing party "La France insoumise" ("France Unbowed", GUE/NGL) for the 2024 European elections, reflects on the current European mandate (2019-2024) and her wishes for the next one (2024-2029).
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
Building on its experience with government-led industrial development, South Korea uses direct government funds to nurture venture capital investments.
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 07:56
Annual net migration to the UK hit a record of 745,000 last year and stayed at elevated levels since, data showed, heaping pressure on PM Rishi Sunak to act to reduce it in the run up to an election.
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 07:35
The United States recently intervened to stop Amsterdam's Schiphol airport from restricting flight numbers, arguing it would unfairly affect US airlines. But rather than meddling in European affairs, the US should concentrate on its own aviation climate problem, argues Jo Dardenne.
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 07:35
The re-explosion of the Middle East’s conflict has brought a flood of illegal and harmful content across the web. We discussed how this crisis is, for the first time, testing the Digital Services Act, the EU’s content moderation rulebook, with...
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 07:32
Three major Greek shipping firms have stopped transporting Russian oil in recent weeks in order to avoid US sanctions now being imposed on some shipping firms carrying Russian oil, four traders told Reuters and shipping data showed.
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 07:28
In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Czech conservatives rejecting euro adoption, Germany announcing it will suspend its 'debt brake', and so much more.
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 07:18
Five members of the Serbian Radical Party, including the leader previously incarcerated, Vojislav Šešelj, have been charged with contempt of court before the International Residual Mechanism for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague, the party...
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 07:17
Slovenian banks and businesses will help finance a substantial part of the estimated €10 billion reconstruction bill after devastating floods in August destroyed homes and infrastructure across much of the country, according to a bill approved by the government on...
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 07:16
In this episode, the Beyond the Byline podcast looks into the results of the Dutch elections, which saw the party of anti-Islam populist, Geert Wilders, lead the polls. The success of Wilders’ Freedom Party (PVV) signalled a notable rightwards shift...
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 07:14
State-owned natural gas transmission and storage system operator Bulgartransgaz is set to collect nearly €130 million from a tax introduced two months ago on Russian gas imports, the operator’s CEO, Vladimir Malinov, said on Thursday amid fears Bulgaria will get...
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 07:10
People with ties to Prime Minister Robert Fico’s Smer party who were prosecuted for corruption allegations could be left with a slap on the wrist instead of jail time as the Slovak Justice Ministry works on criminal code reforms –...
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 07:10
Former prime minister Florin Cîțu and former health ministers Vlad Voiculescu and Ioana Mihăilă allegedly procured many more COVID-19 doses than necessary, according to Romania’s National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA), which on Thursday formally requested their immunity be lifted. Between January...
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 07:09
Poland’s ruling PiS party invited all other parliamentary parties to meet and discuss potential coalitions, with Confederation being the only party that has so far accepted even though it rules out governing with others. The Confederation party was initially going...
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 07:05
Germany thought it could provide the necessary investments for the green transition, all the while adhering to its strict budget rules. It turned out it could not, and this should give everyone pause for thought about the EU’s own fiscal rules.
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 07:00
The United States’ Big Tech companies, European countries, well-connected European startups, and former French Ministers are all using their considerable influence and political capital to drastically alter the European rules on Artificial Intelligence through extensive lobbying.
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 07:00
Israel and Hamas started a four-day ceasefire on 24 November with the release of 13 Israeli women and child hostages later in the day and aid to flow into the besieged Gaza enclave, a first pause in the seven-week-old war.
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 06:46
Greek media reacted negatively on Thursday to the victory of the Dutch far-right PVV party in the recent elections saying its leader Geert Wilders built his career on bashing Greece in a populist way during the economic crisis years ago.
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