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3 days ago
The EU Digital Services Tax (for which the commission proposed a directive in 2018 but at the time was blocked by several member states) can be reintroduced — a targeted levy that will not harm consumers, but aims directly at the excessive profits of tech billionaires supporting Donald Trump, writes the S&D vice president.
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57 minutes ago
Lifting some sanctions here and there every few months is not what Syria needs. It is necessary to lift all economic sanctions and invest massively in the country for strategic reasons — the fall of Assad has been a major blow for the Iranian regime.
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7 hours ago
EU industry is grappling with high energy costs, but it has the makings of a clean tech and defence powerhouse. But the question is — will politicians manage to stop bickering?
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Rule 241: the EU’s hidden ‘bombshell’ against anti-democratic forces

5 months ago
Legal scholars have dubbed it a "sleeping beauty" — a potent yet practically unused EU Parliament instrument akin to the EU's own Article 7, designed to safeguard the rule of law and the integrity of its institutions.
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As Trump sells out Europe’s security, ‘war is not over’ in Ukraine

1 month ago
The US and Russia have agreed to start negotiations “immediately" to end the war in Ukraine. But experts keep warning about the moral and strategic consequences of a bad deal — especially for Europe. Meanwhile, it is clear that Ukrainians have no trust in any peace deal with Moscow without strong security guarantees.
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'Our fight won't be a short one', warns Serbian student protestor

14 days ago
Over 200,000 people gathered in the rural town of Niš, in southern Serbia, on Saturday to keep pressing for transparency and accountability over the collapse of a railway station roof in Novi Sad last year, which killed 15 people.
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