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French quantum sector calls for more EU funding

Fri, 2024-01-12 15:04
The EU should support more funding initiatives targeted to deep tech and quantum technologies, according to founders and strategists working within the quantum field in France.
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EU mulls potential joint naval mission in Red Sea amid Houthi attacks

Fri, 2024-01-12 15:00
EU member states are expected to discuss a potential new naval operation, which would aim to re-establish security and freedom of navigation in the Red Sea, as Yemen’s Houthis continue to attack ships in the vital international trade route.
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France’s ‘last mile’ strategy for renewables under fire from all sides

Fri, 2024-01-12 14:26
France's draft 'energy sovereignty' law, recently unveiled by the government, has caused quite a stir for its apparent dismissal of renewable energies, which are placed at the bottom of the list of low-carbon energies, behind nuclear.
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France leads charge to rewrite platform workers’ rulebook

Fri, 2024-01-12 13:52
Last month, a coalition of EU countries blocked the provisional agreement on the Platform Workers Directive. But while the Belgian EU Council presidency wants to use the political deal as the starting point for future discussion, Paris wants a more comprehensive file reshaping.
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The UK’s move in competition policy

Fri, 2024-01-12 13:17
Since Brexit, the UK Competition and Markets Authority has regained its status as a prominent competition enforcer. As the British Parliament is set to adopt a bill that will increase the CMA’s powers and introduce new obligations on tech companies.
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EU confirms probe into cheap Chinese biodiesel decimating EU industry

Fri, 2024-01-12 12:56
European biofuel producers have praised the European Commission’s decision to launch an anti-dumping investigation into Chinese biodiesel imports, calling it a positive step to stop the economic devastation of the domestic EU biofuel sector.
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Parliament’s committee gives go-ahead to agreed rules for exposure to lead

Fri, 2024-01-12 12:47
The Parliament’s Employment and Social Affairs Committee (EMPL) gave the green light for agreement to step up workers’ health protection by lowering limit values for lead and diisocyanates, which was reached in interinstitutional trilogues last year.
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AI Convention’s crunch time, Microsoft-OpenAI scrutiny

Fri, 2024-01-12 12:33
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Spanish energy boss Teresa Ribera does not rule out EU commissioner job

Fri, 2024-01-12 12:27
Teresa Ribera, Spain's third deputy prime minister and minister for energy and climate, is prepared to take on a job in the European Commission after the EU elections in June, if she is nominated by her government.
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The “sweet poison” of subsidies

Fri, 2024-01-12 08:26
As demonstrated by farmers protests this week, subsidies are addictive and create inefficiency. Still, the biggest economic transformation since the industrialisation might not work without them.
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EU Investment Fund launches €175 risk investment programmes in defence start-ups, SMEs

Fri, 2024-01-12 08:00
The European Investment Fund (EIF) launches €175 billion fund named Defence Equity Facility to boost defence innovation around the bloc, it announced on Friday (12 January).
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Ukraine builds barricades, digs trenches as focus shifts to defence

Fri, 2024-01-12 07:31
Rows of white concrete barricades and coils of razor wire stretch across an open field for more than a kilometre. Trenches with rudimentary living quarters are being dug under cover of darkness. Artillery rumbles not far away.
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Brexit ‘isn’t working’, says London mayor

Fri, 2024-01-12 07:27
London's mayor called Thursday (11 January) for closer ties with Europe and a better debate about immigration as he branded Brexit a "key contributor" to Britain's cost-of-living crisis.
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Finnish presidential frontrunner Stubb seeks a ‘more European’ NATO

Fri, 2024-01-12 07:03
Finnish presidential frontrunner Alexander Stubb said on Thursday (11 January) NATO should become "more European" and that his country would remain an important partner for the United States whether or not Donald Trump is re-elected.
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Electricity pricing is Europe’s hidden industrial policy

Fri, 2024-01-12 07:00
The subsidy race triggered by the energy crisis in 2022 showed how electricity policy is central to industrial policy. Addressing this at EU level will become even more important in the coming years as Europe moves to electrify transport and other sectors, argue Ben McWilliams, Giovanni Sgaravatti, Simone Tagliapietra, and Georg Zachmann.
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ECB interest rates at peak: Lagarde

Fri, 2024-01-12 06:58
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Thursday (11 January) that interest rates in the eurozone had reached their peak after rising rapidly in response to high inflation last year.
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Recycling market in Europe faces ‘collapse’ after EU waste export ban

Fri, 2024-01-12 06:30
The European Union’s decision to ban exports of plastic waste in and outside Europe is threatening to collapse the market for the collection and recycling of plastic packaging, Belgian industry association Valipac has warned.
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EU insists on Polish state media reform

Fri, 2024-01-12 06:30
In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Germany wrestling with calls to ban the far-right party AfD, the EU Commission inisting on changing Polish state media laws, and so much more.
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Bosnian women press charges over rally glorifying war criminal Mladić

Fri, 2024-01-12 06:22
A group of women victims of Bosnia's 1990s war pressed charges on Thursday (11 January) against organisers of a rally glorifying Ratko Mladić, the wartime army chief given life in prison over war crimes, including genocide.
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Kosovo ramps up weapons stocks as Serbia mulls compulsory conscription

Fri, 2024-01-12 06:19
Kosovo is set to buy Javelin anti-tank missiles from the US in a move which has bothered Belgrade at a time leaders mull compulsory military service in a bid to ensure the survival of President Aleksander Vucic’s “new Serbian world”.
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