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President Joe Biden will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping face-to-face for the first time in a year on Wednesday (15 November), the White House said, in high-stakes diplomacy aimed at curbing tensions between the world's two superpowers.

A European Union plan to spend up to €20 billion on military aid for Ukraine is meeting resistance from EU countries and may not survive in its current form, diplomats say.

A new NATO cyber forum aims to increase cooperation between NATO members as well as with the private sector to ramp up the Western military alliance's response to future cyber threats.

The European Socialist Party (PES) did not reach a common position on the current events in Israel and Palestine during its national congress occurring in Málaga, Spain, a source from the PES told Euractiv. 

EU defence ministers are expected to issue a joint statement on Tuesday (14 November) calling on banks to grant the defence industry access to loans, in a bid to remove hurdles for greater investment into production capacities.

In the wise words of a wizarding great, Albus Dumbledore, “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

Vladimir Putin’s biggest – and wildest – project is to resuscitate the Soviet Union in some form during his lifetime. But he has a problem: No country wants to join the Russian Federation, not even Belarus, despite its vassal status.

Since its independence, Kazakhstan has made great efforts to develop its transport and transit potential and modernise transport corridors, having allocated over the past 15 years over $35 billion for these purposes, writes Marat Karabayev.

A technical meeting on the EU’s AI regulation broke down on Friday (10 November) after large EU countries asked to retract the proposed approach for foundation models. Unless the deadlock is broken in the coming days, the whole legislation is at risk.

Despite the EU having little direct say on the protection of poles and glaciers, advocates argued at the One Planet - Polar Summit, hosted in Paris from Wednesday to Friday (8-10 November), that its economic might can still be influential.

EU policymakers are butting heads over the principle of compliance by design, harmonisation of administrative procedures, and implementation deadlines, according to a compromise document on the short-term rental regulation, seen by Euractiv.

The European Union does not only want to slash its greenhouse gas emissions but also boost the amount of carbon it removes from the atmosphere in order to prevent drastic global warming – and healthy forests have a big part to play in this.

The Nature Restoration Law, which was approved during talks between the European Parliament and the Council, comes a little late in view of the ecological calamity raging on our doorstep, but at least it's there, writes Jutta Paulus.

A proposal to count the quantity of alternative fuels in Europe’s fuel mix towards CO2 reduction targets for heavy-duty vehicle manufacturers would create uncertainty for industry and ultimately increase emissions, writes Eamonn Mulholland.

Negotiators from EU countries and the European Parliament agreed on a landmark new law late on Thursday (9 November) to restore at least 20% of Europe’s land and sea areas by 2030 and all ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050.

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Following a 2021 judgement by the EU’s top court, Germany has revamped its energy act to increase the independence of the federal grid agency, Bundesnetzagentur, a move heavily criticised by the opposition.

The EU will decide on a key piece of climate legislation that could deliver global health, climate and energy security benefits. To do so, the Methane Regulation must tackle all the EU’s emissions – including the vast majority emitted outside its borders.

As Turkey's relations with the European Union come under strain over its democratic standards, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's outspoken pro-Palestinian stance on the war between Israel and Hamas is further testing ties.

The Greek legislative framework lacks concrete solutions to advance gene therapies and improve access for patients, with several challenges - including financial support, treatment availability and stakeholder cooperation - remaining.