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Images of Italian teacher chained in Budapest court spark debate in Italy
Images of an Italian woman being shackled and chained at a court hearing in Budapest have sparked a huge debate in Italy, with leaders urged to do something about the situation, even though her family say they have already complained about the conditions of her year-long detention.
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German Greens push to water down EU party’s climate targets
The European Green Party is set for an internal battle over climate targets at a party congress this weekend, with the German Greens pushing to postpone the climate neutrality goals by five years and scrap parts of the gas and oil phase-out policies.
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‘Will remain unignorable’: German climate activists abandon street blockades
German climate activist group “Last Generation” will refrain from gluing themselves to the streets as their main form of protest, instead opting for bigger events and more targetted interference.
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Sweden boosts military ties with France as Macron repeats EU sovereignty call
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and French President Emmanuel Macron signed agreements to strengthen military ties on the first day of Macron’s two-day visit to the country, during which he has already repeated his call for greater EU sovereignty amid increasingly tense geopolitics and the chance of Donald Trump returning to the White House.
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Parliament, member states strike deal on ‘breakfast directive’ to combat food fraud
The Parliament and member states struck a deal on the so-called breakfast directive, which includes measures improving the transparency on the origin of the bees’ product. Honey is one of the most adulterated foods.
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Cars v cows: German automakers call to split EU-Mercosur deal to bypass French ‘non’
The EU-Mercosur trade agreement should be split into two distinctive parts to circumvent French resistance based on agricultural issues, the German car industry has proposed, in a bid to boost export markets other than China.
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EU raids target top tyre firms over suspected cartel
The European Commission said on Tuesday (30 January) it had launched surprise inspections of tyre companies in several EU countries after suspicions of price collusion.
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Majority of EU Parliament groups seek to preserve committee setup
Following the European Commission's proposal to revise the European Parliamentary committees' setup, most political groups prefer to keep the existing structure, a source from the European Parliament close to the matter told Euractiv.
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France ‘hypocritical’ to blame Brussels for farmers’ problems – experts
In deflecting blame for farmers' malaise to Brussels, by pointing the finger at the EU's trade policy and 'red tape', the French government runs the risk of coming across as “hypocritical”, with little political gain.
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Hurdles remain as EU looks to pledge more military support to Ukraine
While EU member states are expected to pledge continued military support to Ukraine this week, hurdles for a future funding scheme remain.
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EU’s diplomatic service faces staffing, feedback challenges, auditors say
EU diplomats working in Brussels and abroad face staffing challenges, not receiving enough guidance from headquarters and struggle with intelligence and information sharing due to slow and opaque computer systems, according to a new report by the bloc's internal auditors.
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Northern Ireland deal: Significant change to Windsor Framework unlikely
The UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is expected to share details regarding the deal to restore power-sharing in Northern Ireland on Wednesday (31 January), though the deal will not bear any major changes to the Windsor Framework.
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Germany set to miss implementation deadline of EU’s content moderation rulebook
As February's deadline to implement the Digital Services Act is fast approaching, Berlin is lagging in doing its homework for Europe's brand-new content moderation regulation.
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France to grant foreign doctors working visas, says prime minister
France is going to regularise the situation of foreign doctors working in the country, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced during his general policy speech to the National Assembly on Tuesday (30 January).
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New Dutch group reinforces efforts to replace animal testing
Three Dutch research institutions have teamed up to create a steering group to collaborate more intensively in the field of animal research and animal-free innovations.
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Participatory budgeting: Engaging citizens in decision making
Participatory budgeting is a form of citizen participation in which citizens are involved in the process of deciding how public money is spent. Local people are often given a role in the scrutiny and monitoring of the process following the allocation of budgets.
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The Brief – Leftists armed with lentils, leaflets, and a climate pretence
A new wave of anti-capitalist leftists claiming to fight for the climate is taking it out on car tyres, risking further damage to a climate movement already gasping for air.
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Geopolitics expert: EU needs less politics, more strategy for agriculture
Ongoing farmers' protests can be partly attributed to the lack of consideration EU society and policymakers give to agriculture in general and geopolitical terms, Sebastien Abis, director of the agricultural group Club Demeter and research fellow at thinktank IRIS in France, told Euractiv.
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EU top court finds indiscriminate storing of convicts’ data illegal
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that law enforcement agencies cannot indiscriminately store biometric and genetic data on those who committed criminal offences until their death, it said in a judgement published on Tuesday (30 January).
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To decarbonise transport, we need solutions, not fantasies
The climate crisis has provoked a raft of new technological solutions, from the ridiculous to the sublime. In defining its transport policy for the coming years, the next European Commission will need to push industry towards sustainable change.
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