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The Council prolonged sanctions regime by one year, in the light of the political and social situation in Nicaragua.

The Council has adopted a regulation that will improve the overall quality of population and housing statistics collected at EU level by establishing a common legal framework for data collection.

Carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM): Council and Parliament reach a provisional agreement on its simplification.

Today the Council adopted the soil monitoring law to track soil health, manage contaminated sites and mitigate land take, aiming for healthy soils by 2050.

The Council reimposed all the restrictive measures against Iran that had been lifted after the introduction of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in July 2015 in light of UN Security Council’s decision to not extend the lifting of sanctions on Iran following the snapback mechanism invoked by the E3.

La Russie envisage de nationaliser et de vendre les actifs détenus par des entreprises étrangères si l’Union européenne décide d’utiliser les avoirs russes gelés pour financer un prêt pour l’Ukraine.

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Gallina says solidarity, not new structures, is key to tackling drug shortages

"Much of what we see today can be viewed as provocation, and this is also how we assess the incidents we saw last week in Schleswig-Holstein," said German interior minister Alexander Dobrindt

According to a decree signed by Russian president Vladimir Putin, Moscow can fast-track the sale of both domestic and foreign-owned companies

Swedish commissioner told Euractiv as she left Parliament that she had held a "good informal discussion" with lawmakers

The French navy had boarded a Benin-flagged vessel blacklisted by the European Union for being part of Russia's shadow fleet

Without offering a political resolution to the conflict, the roadmap unveiled in Washington on Tuesday will not bring lasting stability to the region

Mercredi 1er octobre, des militants ont remis une pétition à la commissaire à l’Environnement devant le Parlement européen, demandant à l’exécutif européen d’épargner les législations environnementales clés de sa campagne de simplification règlementaire.

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Campaigners say ‘simplification’ masks a deregulation agenda

Former French president risks six months’ jail and €7,500 fine as lawyers accuse him of undermining judiciary

“ACER's position would have massively increased the redispatch volume and the associated costs for German grid users,” said the German grid regulator

The suspects were "foreign operatives" of Hamas, who have "have been involved in procuring firearms and ammunition for the organisation", federal prosecutors said

Les quatre plus grandes économies de l’UE appellent à la prudence concernant le projet ambitieux de la Commission européenne visant à renforcer la sécurité aérienne sur le flanc est via un « mur anti-drones », marquant un désaccord avec les dirigeants des régions baltes et scandinaves.

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“Insisting on only a civil use of the European research programme is unfortunately a luxury that we can no longer afford,” Christina Egelund, Denmark’s research minister, told Euractiv

The push to enhance airspace security along the EU's eastern flank, comes after a recent wave of drone incursions in northern and eastern Europe