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Bulgaria deploys EU-funded drones to monitor Turkish border

Euractiv.com - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 06:59
The move fulfils part of a compromise deal aimed at securing its entry into the Schengen Area.
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Poland closes Russian consulate in Krakow over Warsaw mall blaze

Euractiv.com - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 06:53
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has officially confirmed that the blaze was an act of arson orchestrated by Russian intelligence.
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Former Taiwanese President visits Lithuania amid tensions with Beijing

Euractiv.com - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 06:48
The former Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen's visit has become a flashpoint in Taiwan-China tensions and Lithuania's domestic politics.
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PiS facing ‘existential’ fight as Polish election enters homestretch

Euractiv.com - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 06:30
Supporters of a young far-right candidate say they are sick of the 'endless war between the two main parties'.
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Germany’s Merz embraces ambiguity on EU defence

Euractiv.com - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 06:15
Friedrich Merz's election victory raised expectations of a German U-turn on defence. His first week in office has left people wondering what he'll deliver.
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Commission may ease sustainable investing criteria to boost weapons firms

Euractiv.com - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 06:10
Relaxing 'ESG' criteria for defence companies could free up more private investment in areas like ammunition production.
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‘Adapt, but don’t divert’, cohesion policy critics fear defence stealth funding

Euractiv.com - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 01:30
The Commission is proposing five new cohesion policy areas, including defence. Critics argue that traditional territorial cohesion priorities now face the risk of a generational policy pivot.
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Prioritise youth mental health, mobilise all of society, says Z Zurich report [Advocacy Lab Content]

Euractiv.com - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 00:11
Europe needs a unifying goal to tackle the surging youth mental health crisis. The ‘Z Zurich Foundation’ has published a report detailing how the wellbeing of the young can be front and centre of EU policy.
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Carbon capture sector still waiting for EU investment boom [Advocacy Lab Content]

Euractiv.com - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 21:26
The EU’s Industrial Carbon Management Strategy has spurred some new investment, but the sector is still waiting for overdue deliverables promised by the Commission.
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European biosolutions can accelerate the green transition, but simplified regulation is needed [Advocacy Lab Content]

Euractiv.com - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 21:03
Biosolutions are central to Europe’s green transition, offering scalable, nature-inspired alternatives to traditional industrial methods. This Special Report takes a closer look.
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Regulatory uncertainty is harming biosolutions’ competitiveness, says MEP [Advocacy Lab Content]

Euractiv.com - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 20:50
Maintaining the status quo is not viable if Europe wants a thriving economy, according to MEP Morten Løkkegaard.
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Commission letter raised questions over Czech nuclear contract timing

Euractiv.com - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 19:53
Euractiv publishes the document asking Czechia to hold the signature of the €16 billion deal
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Germany to keep quiet on delivery of ‘overrated’ Taurus missiles to Ukraine

Euractiv.com - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 19:52
After campaigning on the delivery of the German-Swedish cruise missiles, the new chancellor suddenly backs 'strategic ambiguity'.
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The Brief – Europe’s coalition of the unwilling, unready and unable

Euractiv.com - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 17:37
Now in their 17th round, this latest volley of sanctions is hardly going to put a dent in Russia’s war economy. For that the EU would do better closing the loopholes in its existing sanctions.
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Germany refuses to rule out violating EU budget limit

Euractiv.com - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 16:37
Whether Germany will flout the EU's fiscal rules to boost defence spending will "be clarified in the next few weeks," said new finance minister Lars Klingbeil.
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Ireland’s health authority denies it’s to blame for cancer drug delays

Euractiv.com - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 14:57
Ireland’s Health and Safety Executive has criticised a new report revealing the country’s shocking last place in Western Europe for new oncology drug access.
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Energy dimension of the Clean Industrial Deal

Written by Agnieszka Widuto.

On 26 February 2025, the European Commission presented the Clean Industrial Deal, a new EU plan to support competitiveness and decarbonisation of EU industry. The Deal focuses mainly on energy-intensive industries and clean technologies (clean tech). Both sectors face high energy prices, intense global competition and complex regulations.

The Clean Industrial Deal includes several solutions to address this situation. It aims to bring energy costs down, boost demand for clean products, reduce EU dependency on raw materials, improve circularity and restore domestic manufacturing. Planned legislative initiatives in the energy field include a new electricity grids package, revisions of the energy security framework and Energy Union governance, as well as an Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act and a delegated act on low-carbon hydrogen. Recommendations and guidance documents are also planned, for instance on network charges, energy taxation and the design of long-term instruments for electricity supply.

In the short term, the Clean Industrial Deal aims to mobilise over €100 billion through boosting EU-level funding, leveraging private investments and enhancing State aid. The key EU funding sources will be the Innovation Fund, Horizon Europe, InvestEU and a new Industrial Decarbonisation Bank. In the next long-term EU budget, the Competitiveness Fund will support EU investments in research and innovation, industrial deployment and scale-up, manufacturing, clean tech and industrial decarbonisation. The European Parliament is currently working on a resolution on the Clean Industrial Deal. The vote in the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) is expected in June 2025, while the plenary vote is planned for July 2025.

Read the complete briefing on ‘Energy dimension of the Clean Industrial Deal‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.

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EXCLUSIVE: Denmark and Italy seek support to rein in European human rights court

Euractiv.com - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 12:20
The aim, Italian sources said, is to start a conversation on how the human rights convention is interpreted, one that better reflects the “challenges of modern irregular migration.” 
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Debate: Ukraine: a chance for talks or just a bluff?

Eurotopics.net - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 12:14
Russia's President Putin has ignored calls for an immediate 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine from France, Germany, the UK, Poland and the US and instead proposed direct negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. President Zelensky promptly replied from Kyiv that he was expecting to meet Putin in person in Turkey on Thursday. Europe's press takes stock.
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