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1 day ago
After more than five years of negotiations ratification of a EU-Mercosur trade agreement may finally be at hand. It’s far from a done deal. The best route forward is neither to ratify the EU-Mercosur trade deal as it is, nor abandon it, writes Standford professor of business and sustainability, Bard Harstad.
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12 hours ago
In less than two weeks, leaders will gather in Baku, a fossil-fuel state locked in a frozen conflict with Armenia, to discuss the climate crisis. Critics have already pointed to the involvement of the state oil company, 'astroturf' fake grassroots influencers, and pre-emptive government reprisals against critics.
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13 hours ago
The EU Commission has launched a probe into whether Chinese shopping website Temu has breached the bloc’s Digital Services Act by failing to tackle rogue traders and the sale of illegal goods online. 
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Mr Josep Borrell in the Republic of Korea: co-chairs the European Union-Republic of Korea strategic dialogue

Hearing of commissioners-designate

President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola will meet the president of the National Council of Switzerland

Hearing of commissioners-designate

Hearing of commissioners-designate

Hearing of commissioners-designate

Meeting of the European Political Community in Budapest

Informal meeting of the members of the European Council in Budapest

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Capital Markets Union will not foot Europe’s climate bill, says report

3 months ago
In an effort to save money, the EU hopes private financiers will foot "most" of the climate bill. But a new report dispels these hopes, calling them "wishful thinking."
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Rule 241: the EU’s hidden ‘bombshell’ against anti-democratic forces

22 days 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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A 'silent pandemic' the EU is not prepared for

2 years ago
"Mental health is the silent pandemic," Irish centre-right MEP Maria Walsh, who spearheads several parliament initiatives on mental health, said, arguing that the EU needs to have a strategy implemented in "weeks, not years".
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