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French MPs adopt bill on foreign interference

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-28 05:55
Lawmakers in the French National Assembly on Wednesday backed a bill proposed by President Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance party to combat foreign interference by a large majority of 171 votes to 25.
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Czechs sanction Medvedchuk, website over pro-Russian EU political influence

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-28 05:54
The Czech government on Wednesday (27 March) sanctioned two people including pro-Russian Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk and the news website voiceofeurope.com for leading a pro-Russian influence operation in Europe, the Czech Foreign Ministry said.
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Commission on alert after unexpected changes in Greece’s EU-funded HPV testing

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-28 05:48
Some 2.5 million Greek women could face long waits in accessing testing for human papillomavirus (HPV), a leading cause of cervical cancer, as a government initiative, financed by the EU, unexpectedly changed the technical requirements for healthcare companies to participate and is set to be scrutinised by the European Commission.
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Bavarian EPP chief defies party line on EU’s China tariffs

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-28 05:48
Bavaria’s Minister-President Markus Söder broke with his centre-right party line and spoke out against EU tariffs on Chinese goods during a visit to China on Wednesday, where he also criticised the French.
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Poland on track to face ‘explosion’ of public debt, Commission, expert warn

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-28 05:48
Poland’s public debt is set to rise to almost 80% of the country’s GDP by 2034, according to the European Commission’s latest report – an assessment economist Jakub Sawulki finds pessimistic, although he warns that current trends do point to skyrocketing public debt.
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Foreign firms’ losses from exiting Russia top $107 billion

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-28 05:24
The corporate exodus from Russia since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine has cost foreign companies more than $107 billion in writedowns and lost revenue, a Reuters analysis of company filings and statements showed.
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EU says plan to ensure critical raw materials supply is not aimed at China

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-28 05:08
A senior European Union official denied that the bloc’s recently agreed-upon plan to diversify its supply of strategically critical raw materials targets China, a move interpreted as aimed at easing increasingly fraught relations between Beijing and Brussels
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Russia says it is hard to believe Islamic State could have launched Moscow attack

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-28 05:07
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday (27 March) that it was "extremely hard to believe" that Islamic State would have had the capacity to launch an attack on a Moscow concert hall last Friday that killed at least 143 people.
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Concern over Commission’s relaxing of environmental requirements for farmers

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-28 05:00
On this episode of our daily Today in the EU podcast we break down the concerns expressed regarding the European Commission’s decision to loosen the environmental requirements.
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Consumers must be at heart of EU energy-saving interoperability efforts, says VizLore director [Advocacy Lab Content]

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-28 03:50
Europe has ample new technologies to improve energy efficiency and save CO2, but getting those technologies connected and used efficiently is problematic, said Milenko Tošić, director of innovation at VizLore Labs Foundation.
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Biodiversity experts alarmed by resistance to reversing ecosystem degradation [Advocacy Lab Content]

EURACTIV News - Thu, 2024-03-28 03:03
As uncertainty mounts on the adoption of the Nature Restoration Law (NRL), biodiversity experts sound the alarm against further resistance to reversing decades of ecosystem degradation.
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Europe’s human-animal bond, a special report on EU companion animals [Advocacy Lab Content]

EURACTIV News - Wed, 2024-03-27 21:51
A Human-Animal Bond Report was launched at the EU Companion Animals Stakeholder Summit on 20 March in Brussels, advocating advancements in companion animal policy to improve human and animal health and wellbeing.
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Yes, to pet-friendly EU policies, but do we need a commissioner for animals? asks Kaljurand [Advocacy Lab Content]

EURACTIV News - Wed, 2024-03-27 21:33
MEP Marina Kaljurand (S&D) has questioned whether the European Commission should include a commissioner dedicated to animals, despite the proven benefits of pet ownership.
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Sustainable democracies need a sustainable media sector, says Jourová [Advocacy Lab Content]

EURACTIV News - Wed, 2024-03-27 21:07
Our democracies need a sustainable media sector, Věra Jourová, European Commission Vice-President for Values and Transparency, told participants of the recent Stars4Media conference in Brussels.
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ECB’s ‘hawkish bias’ could trigger ‘secular stagnation’, leading think tank chief warns

EURACTIV News - Wed, 2024-03-27 17:35
The European Central Bank’s hesitation to cut rates before further signs of slowing wage growth reflects a “hawkish bias” that could lead to weak growth becoming entrenched across the eurozone economy, the head of Bruegel think tank warned on Wednesday (27 March).
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Rift in German Social Democrats widens as Scholz urged to back Ukraine’s victory

EURACTIV News - Wed, 2024-03-27 17:19
Germany’s ruling Social Democrats are facing a rift over the government's Ukraine policy as a group of notable historians within the party denounced on Wednesday (27 March) Chancellor Olaf Scholz's 'ambiguous rhetoric' towards Russia.
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Member states push for further safeguards against Ukrainian imports

EURACTIV News - Wed, 2024-03-27 17:03
With little time before the expiration of wartime trade benefits granted to Kyiv, and despite the compromise deal reached with the European Parliament last week, a Polish-led coalition of EU countries has succeeded in reopening negotiations to enhance safeguards against market distortions.
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What are Geographical Indications and what are they for?

EURACTIV News - Wed, 2024-03-27 16:49
Last month, the European Parliament approved a revised version of the EU’s Geographical Indications (GIs) regulation, which protects the names of products that come from specific regions and have specific qualities and a certain reputation through special labels.
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Deal on major digital bill: French lawmakers give in to EU Commission demands

EURACTIV News - Wed, 2024-03-27 16:47
French lawmakers reached a compromise on Tuesday (26 March) on a hard-fought all-encompassing digital bill, agreeing to water down provisions that would otherwise conflict with EU legislation, white putting sovereign cloud requirements into law.
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EU unable to approve new gene-editing plans in current mandate

EURACTIV News - Wed, 2024-03-27 16:39
The approval of much-anticipated legislation loosening the EU’s strict rules on New Genomic Techniques (NGTs), will have to wait until the next legislative mandate, Belgian Agriculture Minister David Clarinval confirmed at the Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRIFISH) on Tuesday’s (26 March).
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