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The US and Saudi Arabia are taking COP28 pledges seriously
The US and Saudi Arabia are now putting consumers in front of their responsibilities with reduced investment in oil & gas supply. It now forces consuming countries to act and deliver on their COP28 pledges, writes Dr. Thierry Bros.
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EU must continue to promote dialogue between Serbia, Kosovo, says Chinese Ambassador
China has encouraged the EU to continue making positive efforts to promote dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina and hopes it will play a constructive role as a mediator, Chinese Ambassador Li Ming said following a meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić.
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Parliament elects Turudić as new chief prosecutor, opposition, and NGOs predict democratic erosion
Parliament elected Ivan Turudić as the new Attorney General on Wednesday, further deepening the divisions in the already deeply polarised Croatian political scene.
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EU Commission warns Romania over landfill waste management
Romania received a warning on Wednesday for failing to fully comply with the Landfill and Waste Framework Directives despite having already been fined by the European Court of Justice in December.
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Bulgaria to launch investigation against Kremlin regime’s ‘aggression’
Bulgarian authorities are preparing amendments to the country's criminal code to allow prosecution of the Kremlin regime for the war of aggression against Ukraine, Bulgarian Justice Minister Atanas Slavov told Euractiv Bulgaria.
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Azerbaijan president cements grip on power after Karabakh win
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev secured a fifth consecutive term in elections on Wednesday (7 February), official results showed, an expected outcome after his country's historic victory over Armenian separatists last year.
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Polish opposition storms parliament to let in former MPs
Lawmakers from the Law and Justice Party (PiS) tried to storm the Polish parliament on Wednesday, forcing security to allow two expelled ex-lawmakers, Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik, to enter.
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EU threatens Portugal with sanctions over conservation failings
The EU Commission started legal proceedings against Portugal at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Wednesday in two individual cases for its alleged failure to comply with a ruling on the conservation of sites considered Special Areas of Conservation and threatened sanctions.
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EU says Senegal election delay ‘taints’ democratic tradition
Senegal's recent decision to delay presidential elections until December "taints the long tradition of democracy" in the
country and should be reversed, the EU has said, after the move plunged the normally stable West African nation into crisis.
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German climate activists enter EU-Elections: Last Generation aims to ‘shake up’ Parliament
The list of fringe parties in Germany aiming for a seat in the European Parliament is getting longer, as climate activists want to “really shake up” politics this time.
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Some RN MEPs sign resolution to ‘abolish’ Green Deal
At least six of the 18 MEPs in the EP far-right French RN party’s delegation have already signed or will sign on Thursday a resolution tabled by their Belgian Vlaams Belang colleague, Tom Vandendriessche, calling for the Green Deal to be “abolished”.
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Czech debate on joining Eurozone moved forward ‘significantly’, says minister
The Czech discussion of joining the Eurozone has moved forward significantly, European Affairs Minister Martin Dvořák told Euractiv Czechia, despite having his “envoy for euro“ delegate cancelled after they were appointed without prior approval from coalition partners.
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Fast money: European Parliament greenlights ‘instant payment’ law
The European Parliament has formally approved legislation that will force banks and other payment service providers to offer EU citizens and businesses the option of performing virtually instantaneous credit transfers.
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European Parliament adopts its position on gene-edited plants
With the clock ticking to reach a deal before the end of the legislature, the European Parliament on Wednesday (7 February) approved its amendments on the new rules for the highly controversial new genomic technologies (NGTs).
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EU Commission urges MEPs to overcome polarisation in food and agriculture debate
Maros Šefčovič, the vice-president of the European Commission, outlined on Wednesday (7 February) the work the executive is doing to respond to the challenges facing agriculture as part of a dialogue with food chain stakeholders while calling on MEPs to overcome political polarisation.
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The Brief – A Russian propaganda win on a silver plate
While former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin is yet to be aired, his pilgrimage to Moscow is already a major propaganda victory for the Kremlin.
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Belgium postpones EU vote on truck emissions as Germany imperils majority
Belgium has postponed a vote by EU ambassadors on new emission standards for trucks – initially planned for Wednesday (7 February) – to Friday, after Germany withdrew its previous support for the law, leaving the majority unclear.
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EU closes deal on scaled-back clean tech ‘sovereignty fund’
Legislators from the Council of EU member states and the European Parliament reached agreement on Wednesday (7 February) on a scaled-back version of what was initially pitched as an EU sovereignty fund to support green technologies.
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Ukraine urges EU to speed up ammunition supplies amid Russian attacks
Ukraine urged the EU on Wednesday (7 February) to take "urgent steps" to increase deliveries of artillery shells, with the country increasingly outmanned and outgunned on the battlefield as the war nears its third year.
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Spanish PM pledges to strengthen farmers’ power in food chain
In an attempt to calm farmers' protests, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Wednesday promised to strengthen the national food chain law, introduce reciprocity in the conditions for agricultural imports, the so-called "mirror clauses", and simplify the processing of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidies, among other relief measures to avoid what the far-right Vox party described as "the rebellion of the tractors".
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