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3 days ago
Within the first 10 days of 2025, the wealthiest one percent have emitted as much carbon pollution as the poorest half in nearly three years.
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8 hours ago
The initiative to ban so-called 'forever chemicals' (PFAS) has sparked a major lobbying and disinformation campaign designed to weaken the proposal. A cross-border investigation now uncovers the main lobby tactics and how much it would cost to clean up Europe's PFAS contamination.
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22 minutes ago
Avoid hasty conclusions about positive trade effects of a weaker euro with respect to the dollar. Quite the opposite: a weaker euro against the dollar, in the context of challenging economic and political circumstances in France and Germany, could signal weakness and ultimately undermine the international role of the euro.
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Rule 241: the EU’s hidden ‘bombshell’ against anti-democratic forces

3 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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EUobserver's Top 10 stories of 2024

18 days ago
Allow us at EUobserver to blow our own trumpet as 2024 draws to a close, with a look back at the best of the journalistic path we follow — less frothy personality-driven politics, more policy, research and investigations.
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2024 belonged to the far-right — what signs of optimism for 2025?

21 days ago
A recent study in France found atypical working hours and physical hardship are associated with far-right voters. The battle against far-right populism can be won with secure jobs, full employment, decent pay, functioning public services, equality and strong workers’ rights based on collective bargaining.
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