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Exiled Saudi dissident in Bulgaria ensnared in asylum legal limbo

Fri, 10/13/2023 - 11:24
A recent decision on a detained Saudi dissident by Bulgaria's supreme administrative court has cast a long shadow over the legal system for people seeking asylum there.
Categories: European Union

France, UK, US, Nato urge Israel to 'protect civilians' in Gaza

Fri, 10/13/2023 - 10:15
France, Britain, the US and Nato have urged Israel to minimise Palestinian deaths, as it prepares to invade Gaza and publishes photos of Israeli victims. Ursula von der Leyen and Roberta Metsola will visit Israel on Friday.
Categories: European Union

EU made 'little difference' to disabled lives, find auditors

Thu, 10/12/2023 - 17:26
EU action aimed at improving the living and working conditions of the 87 million people with disabilities have shown little impact in recent years, a new report by the European Court of Auditors found.
Categories: European Union

EU compares Hamas to Islamic State, evasive on Gaza Strip

Thu, 10/12/2023 - 17:17
The EU refrained from calling out possible Israeli war crimes for laying siege to the Gaza Strip, while ratcheting up its condemnation of Hamas, likening the group to Islamic State.
Categories: European Union

[Opinion] Hamas' crimes against humanity 'evoke those of Islamic State'

Thu, 10/12/2023 - 16:02
Opening another front against Israel will be met with a severe response. The expansion of the arena of combat against Israel will not be tolerated, writes the ambassador of the Israeli EU Mission.
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[Stakeholder] The looming threat of 'Disease X'

Thu, 10/12/2023 - 14:58
The profound impact of mRNA technology on pandemic preparedness cannot be understated, making it a cornerstone in our collective efforts to safeguard public health.
Categories: European Union

[Analysis] Poland's biggest election since 1989

Thu, 10/12/2023 - 13:06
This Sunday Poles head to vote in the most consequential parliamentary elections since the partially-free elections in 1989 that turned a Soviet satellite state into a burgeoning democracy. Here is what's at stake.
Categories: European Union

MEPs approve watered-down car emissions, after Renew U-turn

Thu, 10/12/2023 - 12:30
MEPs in the environment committee approved new emissions rules for cars, with the final text weaker than the EU Commission initially had intended.
Categories: European Union

EU turns to legal migrants to fill labour shortages

Wed, 10/11/2023 - 17:08
The EU has unveiled a "toolkit" based on migration, parents, youth and older people, after EU states raised concerns about the impact of an ageing population on public finances — but what does it contain?
Categories: European Union

[Feature] West restarts Arctic science with Russia, despite mistrust

Wed, 10/11/2023 - 16:46
Norway is leading a Western restart in science cooperation with Russia in the Arctic — despite a wider EU cordon sanitaire against Vladimir Putin's Mosow, in the wake of the Ukraine invasion.
Categories: European Union

EU states at crossroads on weed-killer renewal

Wed, 10/11/2023 - 16:10
Representatives from EU governments will discuss and vote on the European Commission's proposal to renew the glyphosate's market license for another ten years this week. But it remains unclear if there is a majority to approve the renewal.
Categories: European Union

Gaza war 'pressing' EU on Egypt anti-migrant deal

Wed, 10/11/2023 - 15:50
The prospect of Palestinians fleeing the Gaza Strip towards Egypt appears to have spooked the EU commission into fast tracking a possible migrant busting deal with Cairo.
Categories: European Union

[Opinion] The greenwashing scam behind EU's 'grey' hydrogen

Wed, 10/11/2023 - 15:15
The reality of EU hydrogen expansion is a well-funded, highly-orchestrated greenwashing scam. Some 99 percent of hydrogen produced globally is in fact 'grey hydrogen', made using fossil fuels.
Categories: European Union

US backs EU windfall tax on frozen Russian assets

Wed, 10/11/2023 - 15:15
In her strongest wording yet, US secretary Janet Yellen said she supported a European proposal to use the hundreds of billions of seized Russian assets currently held by G7 countries.
Categories: European Union

[Opinion] Why the EU must stop firing blanks over Gaza

Wed, 10/11/2023 - 08:00
Does anyone think a blank cheque to the country which made the Palestinians refugees will create fewer refugees? Or a blank cheque to their occupiers will create less resistance? Is the problem really that Israel has not used enough force?
Categories: European Union

Israel's siege of Gaza is illegal, EU says

Tue, 10/10/2023 - 20:39
"Cutting water, cutting electricity, cutting food to a mass of civilian people is against international law," said EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in Muscat.
Categories: European Union

Global North-South inequality — can the EU do anything?

Tue, 10/10/2023 - 18:02
Inequalities between the Global North and the South are growing, exacerbated by food insecurity, climate change, Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine. What has been the EU's response — and what are the prospects?
Categories: European Union

Finland: 'external activity' caused Baltic pipeline damage

Tue, 10/10/2023 - 17:19
Finland said the damage to both the Baltic gas pipeline and the data cable was likely caused by "external activity".
Categories: European Union

EU backs Greek gas expansion in protected marine zone

Tue, 10/10/2023 - 16:27
The European Commission recently approved €106m in Greek state-aid for completing a regasification vessel — in the middle of a protected marine area.
Categories: European Union

[Column] Afghan women need global support, not feminism lessons

Tue, 10/10/2023 - 14:27
Afghanistan has all but disappeared from the global headlines — but this 'forgotten crisis', and the Taliban's gender-apartheid, may get a boost from the EU's Sakharov Prize.
Categories: European Union

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