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Huawei official: 5G is a ‘historic’ opportunity for Greece and Cyprus

Tue, 07/30/2019 - 12:28
There is a “historic” opportunity for Greece and Cyprus to take the lead in the rollout of 5G technology in southeastern Europe, a Huawei official has told EURACTIV.com.
Categories: European Union

UK plays Brexit hardball from a submarine base in Scotland

Tue, 07/30/2019 - 08:17
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday (29 July) the Brexit divorce was dead and warned that unless the European Union renegotiated, Britain would leave on 31 October without a deal. Johnson’s bet is that the threat of a...
Categories: European Union

Organic farmers oppose separate framework for new plant breeding techniques

Tue, 07/30/2019 - 08:15
Any attempt to exclude the so-called new plant breeding techniques from the GMO legislation would deal a severe blow to consumers, farmers and processors, according to the EU organic farmers’ movement (IFOAM).
Categories: European Union

Kremlin critic Navalny says he may have been poisoned

Tue, 07/30/2019 - 08:06
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was discharged on Monday (29 July) from a hospital where he was treated for symptoms of an acute allergy, said he may have been poisoned, a suspicion shared by his lawyer and personal doctor.
Categories: European Union

Sites using Facebook ‘Like’ button liable for data, EU court rules

Tue, 07/30/2019 - 07:45
Europe’s top court ruled Monday (30 July) that companies that embed Facebook’s “Like” button on their websites must seek users’ consent to transfer their personal data to the US social network, in line with the bloc’s data privacy laws. Companies...
Categories: European Union

EU court warns Belgium over nuclear reactors

Mon, 07/29/2019 - 15:00
Belgium should have carried out environmental impact studies before prolonging the operational life of two nuclear reactors, Europe’s top court ruled Monday (29 July). The European Court of Justice, responding to a case brought by two environmental pressure groups, found...
Categories: European Union

Trade unionist: Von der Leyen has to deliver on Social Europe ‘if she wants to gain trust’

Mon, 07/29/2019 - 14:16
The Workers Group of the Economic and Social Committee welcomes European Commission president-elect Ursula Von der Leyen’s announcements on social policy but if she wants to be trusted, she needs to deliver, president Olivier Röpke told EURACTIV.
Categories: European Union

Dozens of migrants still stuck on coastguard vessel in Italy port

Mon, 07/29/2019 - 08:57
An Italian coastguard vessel stranded in the Mediterranean with more than 130 migrants aboard has been allowed to dock in the Sicilian port of Augusta but Rome on Sunday (28 July) refused to let them disembark until a deal is struck with the EU.
Categories: European Union

Assuming EU will not budge, Britain ramps up preparations for no-deal Brexit

Mon, 07/29/2019 - 08:46
The British government is working on the assumption that the European Union will not renegotiate its Brexit deal and is ramping up preparations to leave the bloc on 31 October without an agreement, senior ministers said on Sunday (28 July).
Categories: European Union

Hungarian FM: EPP should turn right and stop being shaped by socialists

Mon, 07/29/2019 - 08:24
The EU socialists have shaped the center-right European People’s Party (EPP) more than the other way around and this should stop, Hungarian Foreign Affairs Minister Péter Szijjártó told EURACTIV Croatia in an interview.
Categories: European Union

Trump says US could tax French wine in retaliation for digital tax

Mon, 07/29/2019 - 08:17
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to tax French wines on Friday (27 July) in retaliation for France’s recent proposal to levy a tax aimed at big U.S. technology companies.
Categories: European Union

Profit, planet, and people: Dublin stadium’s approach to sustainability

Mon, 07/29/2019 - 08:11
Controlling the social, economic and environmental impact of its activity should be at the core of the administration of a sports venue, managers of the Aviva Stadium in Dublin told EURACTIV in an interview.
Categories: European Union

At Vienna crisis meeting, Iran links tanker row to ailing nuclear deal

Mon, 07/29/2019 - 08:07
Envoys from Britain, France, Germany, China, Russia and Iran gathered for talks in the Austrian capital on Sunday (28 July), a month after a similar meeting failed to achieve a breakthrough to salvage the fragile nuclear accord.
Categories: European Union

1,400 arrested at Moscow election protest, EU reacts

Mon, 07/29/2019 - 08:04
The EU denounced “disproportionate use of force against peaceful protesters” on Saturday (27 July), after Russian police arrested nearly 1,400 people as they gathered in Moscow at the weekend to demand free and fair elections, the biggest such crackdown in years.
Categories: European Union

The Brief – Don’t forget to remember…

Fri, 07/26/2019 - 15:20
After a Europe-wide heat wave which has already put everyone into summer (suffering) mode, there are a couple of things to bear in mind to gather strength for before you disappear to your vacation destination.
Categories: European Union

Germany may have to pay €850,000 per day for exceeding EU nitrate levels

Fri, 07/26/2019 - 15:01
The European Commission criticised Germany for its excess nitrate levels in groundwater. If Germany's environment and agriculture ministries fail to put proposals on the table quickly, high fines could be imposed. But this is not the only warning from Brussels. EURACTIV Germany reports.
Categories: European Union

Russia says second leg of Turkish Stream will go via Bulgaria, not Greece

Fri, 07/26/2019 - 14:48
The second leg of the Turkish Stream pipeline will go through Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Friday (26 July).
Categories: European Union

Unconventional measures are seeing a comeback at the ECB

Fri, 07/26/2019 - 14:46
The ECB's key interest rate remains at zero and is expected to be at that rate at least until summer 2020. However, ECB chief Mario Draghi is suggesting that a decisive fiscal policy is far more important for the eurozone, especially for Germany and Italy. EURACTIV Germany reports.
Categories: European Union

Eyeing US trade deal, new UK PM whets biotech industry appetite on GMOs

Fri, 07/26/2019 - 14:28
Eyeing a quick trade deal with the United States after Brexit, UK's new Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tried to revive discussions over Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).
Categories: European Union

EURACTIV’s summer picks

Fri, 07/26/2019 - 14:19
It’s been a very busy first half of this European election year and most of us are heading for a well-deserved break this summer. Meanwhile, if you do fire up your browser, here you can catch up on some of the stories that already made waves in 2019.
Categories: European Union

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