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ALDE Party’s 2024 Manifesto: Your Europe, Your Freedom [Promoted content]
ALDE Party's manifesto for the 2024 European elections aims at transforming the European Union in response to today's challenges, outlining commitments in key areas such as security and defence, economic growth and sustainability and institutional reform.
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Spain’s PSOE forms working group ahead of EU elections; keeps name ‘secret’
Spain’s ruling Socialist Party (PSOE/S&D) agreed on Monday to set up a federal electoral committee to coordinate its strategy for the European elections due on 9 June, although the formation did not reveal the name of its main candidate – a top job for which the favourite is Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera.
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Portuguese socialists sack all current MEPs from June’s election list
The Portuguese socialist party (PS/S&D) sacked all current Members of the European Parliament from their list for June's EU election in a vote on Monday (22 April), bidding for a renewed roster with national political figures instead.
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Italian Democratic Party’s Schlein under fire over EU election strategy
Italy’s centre-left opposition Democratic Party (PD) has come under fire after its leader, Elly Schlein, announced her candidacy for June’s European elections despite having previously said she had no intention of taking up a seat in European Parliament.
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German conservatives push for national ban on Russian agricultural imports
The conservative CDU/CSU group in the German Bundestag is pushing for a complete ban on all agriculture and food imports from Russia and Belarus as a way of weakening Russia’s war effort.
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Biden promises speedy delivery of ‘battlefield’ aid for Ukraine
US President Joe Biden promised that tens of billions of dollars of much-delayed military aid would be "quickly" sent to Ukraine as the country suffered a new battering from Russian strikes.
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UK-Rwanda migrant plan passes after parliament marathon
Controversial UK government plans for deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda cleared their final hurdle on Monday (22 April), after a marathon tussle between the upper and lower chambers of parliament lasting late into the night.
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Eyeing China, EU parliament to back ban on forced labour
EU lawmakers will vote on Tuesday (23 April) to ban products made using forced labour under a new law that has China in its sights, risking raising tensions with Beijing.
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Elections in focus: The vote
If you are a citizen from one of the 27 countries that are members of the European Union, you have less than seven weeks before you are called to the polls for the European Parliament election, the first after Brexit.
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Decrease in data protection period risks medicine price increase, says Greek health minister
The Greek government is firmly opposed to any changes to the duration of the regulatory protection period (RDP) in the EU Pharma Package, with Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis pointing to negative consequences for Europe and Greece.
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Hungary wants new approach to manage growing drug shortages [Advocacy Lab Content]
Hungary's Minister of State for Health, Péter Takács, has said a new approach is needed to allow Hungary to choose medicines better suited to the national health budget.
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Paris, gold for the greenest of Games? [Advocacy Lab Content]
France is aiming for gold in sustainability at this year’s Olympics, promising to host ‘the greenest’ Games in history this summer. But many hurdles remain.
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Is Europe’s hydropower potential tapped out? [Advocacy Lab Content]
Huge dam projects built in Sweden, Austria and France decades ago might not be feasible today, but pumped storage hydropower at sites with existing infrastructure could have major potential to reduce the EU’s emissions.
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Commission must act on critical raw materials strategy, say MEPs [Advocacy Lab Content]
Establishing a list of critical raw materials list to defend Europe’s security and competitiveness was set as an essential goal by President von der Leyen, and she delivered. MEPs say now the EU has the list, it’s time to act.
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TikTok faces EU Commission’s second probe, potential suspension of reward program
The European Commission initiated a second formal proceeding against TikTok under the Digital Services Act on Monday (22 April), focusing on the launch of TikTok Lite in France and Spain, signalling intentions to suspend its "Reward Program" in the EU.
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Europe has yet to achieve a genuine green industry deal
The EU has clearly set out its aims to lead the world on green growth. Yet only the most optimistic would say the road has been smooth so far. Initiatives including the Energy Performance Buildings Directive and the Nature Restoration Law have been the subject of unusually contentious debate.
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Greens challenge socialists on commitment to climate action
With European elections looming from 6 to 9 June, the centre-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D) and the Greens have two main goals: win votes from the right and be clearly distinguishable from their traditional allies.
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Vaccine-preventable disease is on the rise in Europe
During the COVID-19 confinement, many contagious pathogens were also suppressed; with society opening combined with vaccine hesitancy, outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, such as measles and whooping cough (pertussis) are on the rise.
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New EU debt? Conservative think-tank warns of NextGen ‘design flaws’
In the debate about a follow-up programme after the end of the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), a think-tank close to centre-right EPP has criticised “significant flaws” in the current programme, including the lack of a plan for repaying the joint EU debt.
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The Brief – Is the EU losing Georgia?
Is it possible that a single piece of legislation could sway Georgia - an official candidate for EU membership since December - away from its EU path? And if so, does it mean that Vladimir Putin is winning back this former Soviet republic, the birthplace of Stalin?
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