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€800 million to jolt the market: Europe’s hydrogen boosters activate

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...
Categories: European Union

EU looks to convince countries to invest in crisis management force, top military chief says

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.
Categories: European Union

French The Left MEP: EU must stop false promises to candidate countries

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).
Categories: European Union

South Korea bets on state-driven venture capital to stay ahead

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.
Categories: European Union

UK net migration hit new record high in 2022 in latest blow for Sunak

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.
Categories: European Union

When will Uncle Sam stop giving lessons to the EU on aviation?

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.
Categories: European Union

The Digital Services Act at its first test

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...
Categories: European Union

Greek shippers exit Russian oil trade to avoid US sanctions

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.
Categories: European Union

Le Pen says Dutch should decide their EU future as ‘Brits did’

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.
Categories: European Union

Five Serbian radicals charged with contempt before Hague court

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...
Categories: European Union

Slovenian banks, companies to help finance post-flood reconstruction

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...
Categories: European Union

Dutch elections: Far-right victory and Euroscepticism

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...
Categories: European Union

New gas tax means Russia owes €130 million to Bulgaria

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...
Categories: European Union

Fico government working towards shortening jail time for corruption

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 –...
Categories: European Union

Former Romanian ministers suspected of COVID-19 vaccine procurement misconduct

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...
Categories: European Union

Poland’s Conservatives agree to meet with PiS but rule out coalition

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...
Categories: European Union

The end of a German illusion

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.
Categories: European Union

Lobbying for Loopholes: The Battle Over Foundation Models in the EU AI Act [Promoted content]

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.
Categories: European Union

Israel, Hamas start first truce in Gaza war

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.
Categories: European Union

Angry Greeks recall Wilders’ nasty economic crisis remarks

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.
Categories: European Union

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