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23 hours 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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16 seconds ago
Corporate Europe Observatory went through Ursula von der Leyen’s priorities for each of the candidate-commissioners (the so-called 'Mission Letters). We found over 15 different tools for systemic deregulation and slashing standards.
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2 hours ago
Last year, the EU saw a drop in greenhouse gas emissions — a positive sign of progress toward climate neutrality targets. However, current national measures indicate that EU countries remain off track to meet the 2030 reduction targets.
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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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