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Though the law looked dead in the water as late as February, MEP’s overcame tough resistance in the council and aggressive lobbying efforts to pass the law supporting gig economy workers.
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Amnesty International recently published new research showing how some petrochemical products linked to human rights abuses and environmental racism, are being exported into Europe’s plastic supply chain from plants concentrated around the Houston Ship Channel in Texas.
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Turkey's national education ministry has refused to provide data on EU funding for Syrian refugees to the EU's financial watchdog, the European Court of Auditors.
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Migration pact hailed as 'huge' EU win, amid human-rights fears

14 days ago
MEPs have given their final approval to the EU's long-delayed immigration and asylum pact, which EU Commission president von der Leyen heralded as a "huge achievement for Europe".
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7 days ago
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EU rules seen as insufficient to fix nutrient pollution

6 days ago
From rivers and lakes to lagoons and seas, numerous aquatic environments across Europe are grappling with a silent yet ubiquitous threat – an excess of nutrients that disrupt their ecological balance and imperil their very existence. And experts say current policies are not going to fix the problem.
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