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Greek PM says EU will work with ‘whoever’ US President people choose
Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday that Europe will have to work with whoever president US voters choose in the upcoming elections, warning simultaneously against telling people what they should do. Read more.
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NATO to hold biggest drills since Cold War with 90,000 troops
NATO is launching its largest exercise since the Cold War, rehearsing how US troops could reinforce European allies in countries bordering Russia and on the alliance's eastern flank if a conflict were to flare up with a "near-peer" adversary.
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Czechia not prepared for EU’s Digital Services Act
The Czech Telecommunications Office, which has just one month before it must start ensuring compliance with the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), currently needs more staff and the necessary legislation to ensure it fulfils its tasks.
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Pellegrini to announce presidential candidacy, solidify Fico’s government
Slovak Parliament Speaker and former prime minister Peter Pellegrini will announce his presidential candidacy on Friday, which, if successful, would tighten the grip on power of the government of Prime Minister Robert Fico, with whom he has been politically linked for almost 20 years.
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‘A really good step forward’: Experts praise EU anti-money laundering deal
The Council of the European Union and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on anti-money laundering legislation that has been hailed as “a really good step forward” by anti-corruption experts.
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The EU’s future computing ecosystem
Joined by Gustav Kalbe previous head of unit for Quantum and now acting director for this research field, we talk about the EU’s plans to build a future ecosystem of super- and quantum computers.
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Removing countries from EU could be option to resolve blockade, Ireland says
As EU decision-making remains plagued by disunity, Irish Foreign Minister Micheál Martin (Fianna Fáil, Renew) suggested that government abstaining from decisions they do not agree with could be a “creative” way for the bloc to avoid deadlock in the future.
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Cultivating Growth: The Transformative Impact of Cultural Diplomacy on Mongolia’s Thriving Creative Industries [Promoted content]
With the international community gathering at Davos this week, Mongolia’s Minister of Culture, Nomin Chinbat, met with leaders from politics and business about Mongolia’s rich cultural heritage and the economic growth potential that the country’s cultural and creative industries possess.
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France dubious about EU-wide ‘net-zero soil artificialisation’ target
France is "not persuaded" that its 2050 'zero artificialisation' goal should be extended at EU lavel, even though discussions are currently underway on a European soil monitoring and resilience directive.
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In France, low rate of HPV vaccination raises concerns among health experts
Vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) in France remains one of the lowest in the European Union, prompting health professionals to warn of a risk to public health and the importance of vaccinating boys too.
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Spanish parliament OKs reform to scrap language discriminating against the disabled
Spain will soon reform its Constitution to remove all forms of discriminatory language against disabled people, currently referred to as “handicapped”, after parliament approved the measure on Thursday, with only the far-right VOX party voting against it.
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Calls for calm after Iran, Pakistan trade strikes on militants
The United Nations and the United States appealed for restraint on Thursday (18 January) after Iran and Pakistan traded deadly air strikes on militant targets on each other's territory.
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Belgium to join European fighter jet programme as observer in ‘a few weeks’
Belgium is expected to join the flagship Future Combat Air System (FCAS) to build the next-generation European fighter jets 'in a few weeks as an observer nation, the country's defence minister told Euractiv.
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EU court lifts restrictions on buying agricultural land in Bulgaria
The EU Court of Justice lifted the restrictions EU citizens face when buying agricultural land in Bulgaria in a ruling published on Thursday, more than 17 years after the country joined the bloc.
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Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal: Tusk’s changes to public media ‘illegal’
Recent reforms to Poland’s public media by the new government of Donald Tusk, which have sparked a fierce backlash from the opposition, are unlawful, the country’s controversial constitutional court ruled on Thursday – a decision Culture Minister Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz says has “no legal significance” and should be ignored.
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New wave of farmer protests loom as German government refuses to budge
Germany's ruling coalition refused to back down in its political showdown with protesting farmers, deciding late on Thursday to stick to its plans to cut farm subsidies, opening the floodgates to an unprecedented "eruption" of new protests.
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EU bans ‘misleading’ green claims relying on carbon offsets
Terms such as “climate neutral” or “climate positive” that rely on offsetting will be banned from the EU by 2026 as part of a crackdown on misleading environmental claims. Euractiv's media partner, The Guardian, reports.
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Plan needed for multimodal CO2 transport
The capture, storage and utilisation of CO2 requires the construction of pipelines and network planning to enable industry to access geological storage areas and synthetic fuel producers to access (renewable) CO2 sources, write Daan Peters and Kees van der Leun.
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Need to move to ‘whatever it takes’ to deter Russia, Lithuania’s FM says
The West must change its message on supporting Ukraine from “as long as it takes” to “whatever it takes” if it wants to deter Russia from attacking the Baltic states, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday.
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LEAK: EU Commission mulls options for boosting R&D in dual-use technologies
The European Commission will propose several options for promoting research and development (R&D) related to technologies with dual-use potential, namely, those that can be used for both civil and military purposes, such as drones and satellites.
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