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Czech army faces critical shortage of soldiers

Wed, 02/26/2025 - 07:01
The Czech army currently numbers around 23,600 soldiers, and last year's recruitment drive resulted in a net gain of only 176 soldiers - far from the targets set in new defence plans.
Categories: European Union

Chinese lithium factory in Sines could get €350 million in EU grants

Wed, 02/26/2025 - 07:01
The CALB automotive lithium battery plant project, involving an investment of around €2 billion and the creation of 1,800 direct jobs, is expected to be operational in 2028.
Categories: European Union

Europe’s Roadmap to Competitiveness and Security Needs a Reality Check [Promoted content]

Wed, 02/26/2025 - 07:00
The Clean Industrial Deal must address the real needs of a transforming economy. The upcoming Competitiveness & Security Business Summit will provide a platform to discuss the challenges and opportunities for European business, considering the Commission’s proposed approach to competitiveness.
Categories: European Union

Telecoms reports hoping to shape the Mobile World Congress Agenda

Wed, 02/26/2025 - 07:00
And Meta is in the crosshairs of the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
Categories: European Union

Commission backs Rome in ECJ hearing on Italy-Albania migration deal

Wed, 02/26/2025 - 06:59
The case centres on the interpretation of the "safe third country" principle.
Categories: European Union

Poland to guard Baltic skies

Wed, 02/26/2025 - 06:51
This is the first time Polish aviation has taken part in the Baltic Air Policing Operation, which since 2004 has seen allied air forces rotate between bases in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to patrol their airspace.
Categories: European Union

EU alone can’t plug USAID shutdown gap, French development minister warns

Wed, 02/26/2025 - 06:30
The EU wants to step in and fill in the void but it's missing the cash for it.
Categories: European Union

From left to right, MEPs are unconvinced of VDL’s drive to put a price on nature

Wed, 02/26/2025 - 06:01
“The focus must remain on real environmental protection, not profit-making.” S&D's César Luena told Euractiv.
Categories: European Union

Portugal and Spain’s different bites on meat consumption

Wed, 02/26/2025 - 06:00
The debate over meat’s environmental impact only hit the mainstream in 2021 when Spain’s socialist PM Pedro Sánchez publicly contradicted his consumer minister.
Categories: European Union

France bans nicotine pouches, as EU war on product escalates

Wed, 02/26/2025 - 06:00
Tobacco companies increasingly turn to nicotine delivery products as cigarettes face pressure
Categories: European Union

Ursula von der Leyen dreams of a passage to India

Wed, 02/26/2025 - 06:00
Key obstacles to closer ties, however, are likely to be differing views on trade and New Delhi’s close ties with Moscow.
Categories: European Union

Ireland needs private sector to lean in for European Health Data Space integration

Tue, 02/25/2025 - 22:45
Signalling steady progress towards European Health Data Space integration, Ireland is creating new legislation and advancing private sector engagement to unblock bottlenecks.
Categories: European Union

The Brief – Berlin embraces ‘La dolce vita’

Tue, 02/25/2025 - 20:22
Reforming the debt brake is overdue, but circumventing it in a last-ditch effort won't do any good.
Categories: European Union

Bulgarian Botox injuries surge, authorities launch investigation

Tue, 02/25/2025 - 18:03
Lawyers warn that control over who administers Botox, especially those without medical education, is weak, and Botox imports are often untraceable.
Categories: European Union

EU steel strategic dialogue starts next week, Commission says

Tue, 02/25/2025 - 17:49
Discussions should indicate how to realise a “step-change” in competitiveness and help draft a steel and metals action plan this spring.
Categories: European Union

EU food safety watchdog confirms pest causing Pierce’s disease in Italian grapevines

Tue, 02/25/2025 - 17:19
Xylella fastidiosa is one of the most threatening plant pathogens in the world.
Categories: European Union

European climate policy has a credibility issue

Tue, 02/25/2025 - 16:40
Across Europe, voters who are disaffected by policy are more likely to be sceptics of humans causing climate changes, and half of them favour adaption over action. 
Categories: European Union

Virkkunen invited to Parliament to justify AI Liability withdrawal

Tue, 02/25/2025 - 15:16
EPP MEPs have been instructed to support the Commission's Work Programme because it will satisfy their demand to cut red tape for businesses.
Categories: European Union

The Left’s co-chair on the party’s surprising rise in Germany and the Ukraine war

Tue, 02/25/2025 - 15:13
After Sunday’s election and the new parliamentary balance, The Left may find itself in an unexpected position of responsibility.
Categories: European Union

Polish EU Presidency to rekindle alternative tobacco tax debate

Tue, 02/25/2025 - 15:10
Despite the Commission’s decision to leave tobacco tax reform out of its 2025 agenda, the Presidency wants to speed things up.
Categories: European Union

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