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Fri, 09/25/2020 - 13:29
The European Union’s Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is gearing up to give Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft a clean bill of health in November, the regulator’s executive director indicated on Friday (25 September).
Fri, 09/25/2020 - 13:12
This Handbook on the Racial Equality Directive was drafted in response to a lack of awareness on the topic of non-discrimination – the rights, bodies and redress mechanisms - and an unclear understanding of what discrimination really means.
Fri, 09/25/2020 - 12:00
EFBW and UNESDA are calling for a wide deployment of well-designed deposit return systems to meet the collection and rPET targets of the EU Single Use Plastics Directive. Read here the 6 fundamental design criteria they believe will improve DRS efficiency. Perhaps you could use this illustration below?
Fri, 09/25/2020 - 11:35
The Association of European Journalists has complained to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that the EU executive uses the English language “out of proportion” in its official communication, which gives an unfair advantage to the anglophone press.
Fri, 09/25/2020 - 10:35
Welcome to EURACTIV's AgriFood Brief, your weekly update on all things Agriculture & Food in the EU.
Fri, 09/25/2020 - 09:33
Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. “While the UK applies EU data protection rules during the transition period, certain aspects of its system may change...
Fri, 09/25/2020 - 09:06
Cyprus's audit office said on Thursday (24 September) thousands of passports could have been granted without proper authorisation under the island's citizenship-for-investment scheme - a programme critics fear could be used by money-launderers and other criminals.
Fri, 09/25/2020 - 08:59
Kenya's candidate to become the next head of the World Trade Organisation pledged on Thursday to integrate climate change issues into the WTO agenda if selected.
Fri, 09/25/2020 - 08:48
The European Commission's new food policy should be reviewed if a future impact assessment shows that it will negatively affect farmers, the newly-elected chair of farmers association COPA, Christiane Lambert, told EURACTIV.com.
Fri, 09/25/2020 - 08:30
The European Commission's plan to fence off the EU's industrial crown jewels from state-backed foreign buyers may breach WTO rules, lobbying group the China Chamber of Commerce to the EU said in its feedback on the proposal.
Fri, 09/25/2020 - 08:25
The United Nations and Britain will host an online climate summit in December, the fifth anniversary of the Paris climate agreement, in a last-ditch bid to have countries meet a deadline to upgrade their emissions-cutting pledges.
Fri, 09/25/2020 - 08:18
In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the political spat between the UK and Italy, Germany's military agency head resigning, and so much more.
Fri, 09/25/2020 - 08:16
The European Union raised the alarm on Thursday (24 September) over the coronavirus pandemic, saying it is worse now than at the March peak in several member countries, as governments in Europe and beyond reimpose drastic measures.
Fri, 09/25/2020 - 08:15
The COVID-19 crisis has been used as a cover for hybrid operations in the EU, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry stated on Thursday (24 September). EURACTIV Bulgaria reports.
Fri, 09/25/2020 - 08:12
Now is not the time to call for the government’s first intergovernmental session for North Macedonia to start accession talks between North Macedonia and the EU, Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Krasimir Karakachanov has said. Although North Macedonia would be doing...
Fri, 09/25/2020 - 08:11
Salih Mustafa, who has been accused for war crimes in Kosovo, was arrested yesterday (24 September) and brought to the Kosovo Specialist Chambers. Mustafa is the first publicly indicted and arrested person since the Court was founded in 2015. A...
Fri, 09/25/2020 - 08:11
Giorgiana Hosu, who headed the anti-mafia prosecutor office, resigned Thursday (24 September), hours after her husband who was convicted on corruption charges, had received a three-year suspended prison sentence with the possibility to appeal the verdict. Dan Hosu received a...
Fri, 09/25/2020 - 08:10
The Serbian leadership signed an agreement in Washington in order to advance the achievement of the so-called “Serbian world", and that risks opening the Pandora's box in the whole region of the Western Balkans, writes Filip Milacic.
Fri, 09/25/2020 - 08:10
Slovenia’s state macroeconomic office UMAR forecast on Thursday (24 September) that the national economy would fall 6.7% this year, an improvement on its previous prediction for a 7.6% GDP contraction. The office said the economy could return to pre-crisis levels...
Fri, 09/25/2020 - 08:10
The COVID-19 pandemic which has spread heavily in the Czech Republic and six other European countries: Malta, Spain, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Croatia, is a great concern for the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Among these countries,...
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