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Creating a safe environment for our European community [Promoted content]

Tue, 02/09/2021 - 07:00
At TikTok, we are focused on providing our community with a joyful, creative and, above all, safe experience. Our community's safety is top of mind for us every day, and we wholeheartedly believe in helping our community make informed decisions about their online presence.
Categories: European Union

EU’s Vestager warns Apple to treat all apps equally amid privacy dispute

Mon, 02/08/2021 - 23:02
Europe’s antitrust chief, Margrethe Vestager, has warned Apple Inc to give equal treatment to all apps on its platform amid the iPhone maker’s privacy changes that have drawn charges of anti-competitive practices from rival Facebook.
Categories: European Union

EU-Africa partnership must reflect ‘realities of African agriculture’

Mon, 02/08/2021 - 18:26
Future agrifood partnerships between the EU and Africa take into account the realities of farming in Africa, especially in the context of a drive for a greener transition, agrifood stakeholders have warned.
Categories: European Union

Citing “systemic” fraud, Commission pushes Hungary to change procurement

Mon, 02/08/2021 - 17:19
The European Union's executive has told Hungary to reform its public procurement laws to curb "systemic fraud" before billions of euros from the EU pandemic recovery fund become available, according to an internal document seen by Reuters.
Categories: European Union

The Brief, powered by GSMA – A stress test for the EU

Mon, 02/08/2021 - 16:35
Many are criticizing EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell for his Moscow visit, seen as a fiasco and a humiliation for the European Union. We expect to hear calls for his resignation or dismissal in the European Parliament on Tuesday (9 February).
Categories: European Union

Gas is not over [Promoted content]

Mon, 02/08/2021 - 16:00
“Gas is over," the European Investment Bank President, Dr Werner Hoyer, said during a press conference. I say: "No, it is not!" Quite the opposite: it can kick-start the European economy in times of crisis. Here is how and why.
Categories: European Union

5G : French constitutional court backs provisions of ‘anti-Huawei law’

Mon, 02/08/2021 - 15:36
France's highest court ruled on Friday (5 February) that the law introduced by the government on the security of 5G networks - dubbed 'anti-Huawei law' - is consistent with the Constitution. EURACTIV France reports.
Categories: European Union

Is the European Union truly like the Soviet Union?

Mon, 02/08/2021 - 14:50
Will the EU collapse like the USSR? Piotr Maciej Kaczyński puts forward "the power of argument" against "the argument of power" used by politicians such as the Polish or Hungarian prime ministers, who say the EU is similar to the defunct Soviet Union.
Categories: European Union

Commission under pressure in EU court over ‘lie detector tech’

Mon, 02/08/2021 - 13:18
The European Commission’s Research Executive Agency has come under questioning from judges at the Court of Justice of the EU, as part of a case focusing on why the agency refuses to disclose documents on the controversial ‘iBorderCtrl’ project.
Categories: European Union

EU, US rally behind Georgia after arbitrary sentencing in frozen conflict zone

Mon, 02/08/2021 - 13:08
Brussels and Washington have condemned the heavy prison sentence slapped on a Georgian citizen by the authorities in the Russia-controlled Georgian region of South Ossetia on Friday (5 February).
Categories: European Union

Hydrogen – the case for Central and Eastern Europe [Stakeholder Opinion]

Mon, 02/08/2021 - 12:00
Best businesses thrive when faced with challenges and the EU Green Deal offers an abundance of them in the foreseeable future. However, the potential to turn a challenge into an opportunity will rely on joint and coordinated efforts of public...
Categories: European Union

Q&A: What is China’s carbon trading scheme?

Mon, 02/08/2021 - 08:35
China has launched the world's biggest carbon trading system to help lower carbon emissions, but critics and analysts have raised doubts about whether it will have a signficant impact.
Categories: European Union

Russia tells Bulgaria to stop ‘navalnying’

Mon, 02/08/2021 - 08:25
In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Czech president attending an online summit with China, Germany reporting record military spending that remains below NATO's target, and so much more.
Categories: European Union

EU ambassador to Switzerland says treaty talks finished

Mon, 02/08/2021 - 08:20
The European Union will not reopen parts of a stalled bilateral treaty with Switzerland, the EU ambassador to the Alpine republic said in an interview with newspaper Blick, taking a hard line on Swiss misgivings over talks that have lasted years.
Categories: European Union

Đukanović accuses Serbia of interfering in internal affairs, Europe of indifference

Mon, 02/08/2021 - 08:18
Reviving the idea of a Greater Serbia seeks to change the very nature of Montenegro as a multi-ethnic, secular and pro-European country so that Podgorica would become part of a triangle with Belgrade and Banja Luka (Bosnian Serb capital), Montenegrin...
Categories: European Union

Vučić to Biden: Kosovo recognition not mentioned in any agreement

Mon, 02/08/2021 - 08:17
In response to US President Joseph Biden’s message supporting Serbia in reaching an agreement with Kosovo focused on mutual recognition, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said on Sunday that the term “mutual recognition” was not mentioned in any agreement or resolution....
Categories: European Union

Romania greenlights AstraZeneca jabs for under-55s only

Mon, 02/08/2021 - 08:17
Romania received its first batch of AstraZeneca vaccines, whose administration will start on Thursday for people aged 18 to 55 – as recommended by the country’s authorities last week. Romania will get some 600,000 doses this month from AstraZeneca and...
Categories: European Union

Serbian Ambassador to Bulgaria summoned by foreign ministry

Mon, 02/08/2021 - 08:16
The Serbian ambassador to Bulgaria was summoned by the Bulgarian foreign ministry on Friday for “the anti-Bulgarian and occasionally racist behaviour of university Professor Dragan Simeunovic,” the Bulgarian Bgnes agency (bgnesagency.com) has reported. “The Serbian ambassador to Bulgaria, Željko Jović,...
Categories: European Union

Slovak parliament selects top special prosecutor

Mon, 02/08/2021 - 08:16
Slovakia’s parliament has selected the conservative former interior and justice minister, Daniel Lipšic, as the new top special prosecutor, one of the two highest positions in the country responsible for fighting serious crime. Lipšic was a politician in the conservative...
Categories: European Union

Sudan warns further filling of Ethiopian Nile dam threatens national security

Mon, 02/08/2021 - 08:15
Sudan warned Ethiopia Saturday (6 February) against going ahead with the second phase of filling its mega dam on the Blue Nile, saying it would pose a "direct threat to Sudanese national security".
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