Enlargement & Neighbourhood 15-05-2024
Europe's East 15-05-2024
Health 15-05-2024
Politics 15-05-2024
Yesterday (Tuesday 14 May) environment ministers from 11 national governments wrote to their counterparts across the EU, urging them to adopt the law at the next Environmental Council meeting on 17 June.
Including local and sustainability criteria in public procurement of food would be compatible with WTO rules and would also bring significant climate and economic benefits, according to a report published on Wednesday (15 May) by consultancy Carbone4.
Decarbonising the heating and cooling sector is central to achieving the energy transition. This is recognised in the European Green Deal and the ‘Fit for 55’ package, as without increasing the share of renewables in this sector, our energy and climate targets cannot be achieved cost-effectively.
A clear legislative and governance roadmap from the next European Commission to promote decarbonisation and protect both industry competitiveness and the energy supply for citizens will unlock private and public sector cooperation to achieve the Green Deal’s ambitions.
Israeli tanks pushed deeper into Rafah, reaching some residential areas where more than a million people had sought shelter, and its forces pounded the enclave's north in some of the fiercest attacks in months.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview published early on Wednesday (15 May), said he backed China's plan for a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine crisis, saying Beijing had a full understanding of what lay behind the crisis.
The European Union said on Tuesday (14 May) it was concerned about the wave of arrests of many civil society figures, journalists and political activists, and demanded clarifications from Tunisia as the North African country faces a growing political crisis.
The US will stand by Ukraine until its security sovereignty is guaranteed, Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged on Tuesday (14 May) in a visit to Kyiv, at a time when Russia is mounting fresh attacks in the country's east.
Italian Prime Minister and Fratelli d’Italia leader Giorgia Meloni and Democratic Party leader Elly Schlein are to face off in a much-anticipated TV debate, but the decision has drawn criticism from analysts and other leaders who are trying to get it cancelled, saying it raises questions of fair play and clashes with the debate on the candidates for European Commission president.
The ‘post-growth’ movement, which holds that economic growth is pushing us past fixed planetary boundaries, like the twin climate and biodiversity crises, without fundamentally making us happier, writes Donagh Cagney.
Russia may have been involved in the recent spate of major fires in Poland, including one at one of Warsaw’s biggest department stores, Polish Justice Minister Adam Bodnar has said.
North Macedonia's newly elected president, hailing from the nationalist VMRO party, which won the parliamentary election this month, refused to use the country's official name at her inauguration, setting it on a collision course with its neighbours and Brussels.
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has promised as part of her reelection campaign building up new capabilities and ‘structures’ at the EU level to battle foreign interference, while EU countries parallelly seek to review existing tools to maximise effectiveness.
As the world faces record-high temperatures, experts call for implementing nature-based solutions (NbS) to help cities adapt to climate change and improve human health and well-being.
Youth unemployment stings and weakens communities, said László Andor, Former EU Commissioner for Employment. Andor called for new EU-level regulation to deal with the impact of the digital revolution on work.
Ireland is attracting fewer clinical trials than some EU countries with similar populations and economic performances, according to a new report by the IPHA, Ireland's biopharmaceutical industry body. Denmark attracts almost three times as many industry clinical trials.
EU ambassadors will debate lowering the protection status of wolves on Wednesday (15 May), a controversial move that has no scientific justification, according to conservationists, who denounced it in an open letter.
A recent European-wide patient survey study published in the European Journal of Human Genetics on Tuesday has uncovered significant delays in diagnosing rare diseases across the continent.
As protests grow in Tbilisi, EU member states on Tuesday (14 May) failed to agree on a common statement that would condemn the passing of the Georgian government's 'foreign agent' law, which Brussels warned defies 'European values' and hampers the country's path towards accession.
Austria is charged with political electricity, but it's not because of the upcoming EU elections in June. Bigger events are looming only three months later: the national election that might put the far-right in charge of the Alpine country.
French delegate minister of Industry Roland Lescure visited the production site of Italian pharmaceutical group Chiesi in the Loir-et-Cher département on Tuesday (May 14), after the company announced an investment of €10 million.
As the polls for the EU elections foresee a rise of the far-right, EFA proposes another alternative. Instead of continuing with “business as usual” or going backwards to the darkest years of Europe, EFA proposes a step towards the future.
Regional revitalization – driven by green policies and technological advancements – is a key priority across Europe, and it is clear that this transformation is most urgent in rural, post- industrial, and suburban areas adjacent to major cities
In order to get Europe on track for its 2030 renewables targets, the European Commission has given out new guidelines to EU countries for fast-track zones – while opening the door to more restrictive renewables auctions.
