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9 hours ago
There are two explanations for growing anti-EU sentiment: the emergence of identity issues and culture wars, plus austerity and economic decline.
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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

13 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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