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3 days ago
After months of standstill, the EU’s plan to ease restrictions on New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) could move forward on Friday, pushing efforts from factory farm capitals to bypass concerns from countries worried about small and organic farmers. Here's why it’s controversial — and how Poland’s stance has shifted the balance.
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2 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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1 hour ago
EU leaders meet in Brussels on Thursday and Friday after the previous Ukraine and defence summit, with the Commission set to outline its defence industry vision. Meanwhile, Germany holds a special session on its controversial constitutional debt brake reform on Tuesday.
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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

13 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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