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The Spanish and German leaders touted unity on Ukraine, but their meeting was clouded by splits over defence spending and the war in Gaza.

A 90% climate target for 2040, which had deeply divided EU countries, is not referenced in the "statement of intent"

Today, the Council approved the EU’s statement of intent on its post-2030 NDC, outlining its intention to submit an NDC ahead of COP30.

The Council adopted a decision on the position that the EU will take in the EU – Moldova Association Committee in Trade Configuration as regards increasing market access for some exports not yet liberalised.

Main agenda items, approximate timing, public sessions and press opportunities.

Defence investment: Council authorises negotiations with UK and Canada on their participation in SAFE.

Council amends existing regulations to address current and emerging challenges in the context of the mid-term review of EU cohesion policy.

Council draft would lower the threshold for Commission-led procurement from nine member states to six

The text, seen by Euractiv, condemns both killings as attacks on democratic values and calls for stronger measures to combat political violence and extremism

Több magániskola országszerte csütörtökön egy tiltakozó akció keretében fiktív számlákat küldött a szülőknek. Így tiltakoznak az oktatásügyi minisztérium iskolák finanszírozásáról szóló javaslata ellen, amelynek értelmében csökkentenék a magán- és egyházi iskolák normatív támogatását.

Hundreds of rallies and a united union front marked France’s biggest mobilisation in years, targeting austerity plans and testing Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu

Bedrogozott sofőrt csíptek el a rendőrök Nyitra és Verebély között. A 27 éves férfi kokaint fogyasztott.

Különleges tűzoltókocsit, egy átalakított Tatra 148 CAS 32-est kaptak a helembai önkéntes tűzoltók. A Tatra tűzoltó teherautót 1973-ban gyártották, de teljesen felújították és modernizálták.

Le ministre slovaque des Affaires étrangères, Juraj Blanár, a déclaré jeudi 18 septembre que son parti n’avait pas encore reçu de notification officielle de son expulsion du Parti socialiste européen (PSE), mais qu’il réagirait de manière appropriée si cela devait se produire.

The post Le SMER de Robert Fico promet de réagir à son expulsion du Parti socialiste européen appeared first on Euractiv FR.

Written by Gisela Grieger.

The importance of the EU’s trade defence arsenal is underscored, among other factors, by persistent global overcapacity in a range of sectors, which has significant distorting effects on international markets, and by the weaponisation of trade, including through economic coercion amid growing geopolitical tensions.

The arsenal can be divided into two categories. First, the EU’s traditional trade defensive instruments (TDIs), which are based on multilateral trade agreements going back to Codes developed under the 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; and second, the EU’s more recent autonomous trade instruments, most of which were enacted between 2019 and 2024.

TDIs enable the EU to deter and combat unfair trade practices from companies and public authorities of third countries, shield EU industries and jobs from these practices, and restore a level playing field for EU companies in the internal market. TDIs are mainly applied in the form of additional duties on imports of dumped and/or subsidised goods, or on goods whose imports have surged suddenly and unexpectedly and have caused serious injury to EU industry – or threaten to do so.

The EU’s autonomous trade instruments seek to fill regulatory gaps in international trade law in areas such as public procurement and foreign subsidies, with a view to levelling the playing field between EU companies and non-EU companies and to safeguarding the EU’s economic interests, including its economic security.

Against the backdrop of the United States’ recent unilateral tariff policies, which are likely to lead to a diversion of trade flows to other markets, including the EU, and to a further increase in the global use of trade defence measures, the relevance of the EU’s trade defence toolbox is set to grow in the future.

Read the complete briefing on ‘Understanding the EU trade defence toolbox‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.

EU regulator says flawed assumptions downplayed benefits of German-Luxembourg bidding zone split

Entertaining as the Windsor spectacle might have been to those still bitter over Brexit, the sad truth is that there's not a government in Europe that wouldn't follow the British example

L’année prochaine, la France mettra en place un nouveau registre public de transparence des activités d’influence étrangère, dans le cadre d’efforts plus larges visant à limiter l’ingérence étrangère.

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Merz’s coalition hopes the extra spending can shake Germany out of a prolonged economic slump and rebuild the neglected military amid rising tensions with Russia