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Parliament and the member states’ representatives agreed on a budget of €189.4 billion for 2024, following a conciliation meeting between the institutions on Saturday (11 November).

European Parliament and EU countries agree on 2024 EU budget

By: EBR | Monday, November 13, 2023

Negotiators of the European Parliament and the EU Council reached an agreement on the bloc’s 2024 budget

EU lawmakers back recognition of parental rights across the EU

By: EBR | Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Members of the European Parliament agreed their position on a proposed EU regulation to ensure parental rights are recognised across the Union independently from how a child is born

It is a bit rich for the von der Leyen Commission, which has spent recent months brokering agreements – and then loudly extolling their virtue – with Tunisia and Egypt that are specifically designed to prevent people from migrating to or seeking asylum in Europe, to claim that the bloc’s rules prevent the outsourcing of migration control.

Outsourcing EU hypocrisy

By: EBR | Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Last week’s agreement between the UK and Austria to work together on ‘third country’ asylum schemes is the latest confirmation that the EU’s southern borders extend well beyond the Mediterranean Sea

However, the “alcohol consumption notably” part was scrapped when groups’ negotiations were already over, according to the source, who pointed the finger at the push to the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) to keep the reference to ‘harmful use of alcohol’ only.

WHO lobbies EU lawmakers against watering down alcohol cancer risk

By: EBR | Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Ahead of a crucial European Parliament vote, the World Health Organisation (WHO) sent a letter to MEPs -expressing increasing concern about the state of play of the EU’s flagship Beating Cancer plan due to “scientifically inaccurate and worrisome” wording on alcohol use

Ireland’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and continental shelf, which extends significantly beyond the 200 nautical miles of the EEZ, creates substantial economic opportunities but also vulnerabilities.

Why Ireland Matters for European Security

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Against the background of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and changes in the global security environment, Ireland is undertaking a much-needed national debate on security policy

“The spike of antisemitic incidents across Europe has reached extraordinary levels in the last few days, reminiscent of some of the darkest times in history,” the commission said in a statement.

European Commission says ‘European Jews today are again living in fear’

By: EBR | Monday, November 6, 2023

The European Commission condemned the jump in anti-Semitism across the EU since the outbreak of conflict in the Middle East

As for combatting the risks, the annual report takes stock of the current situation regarding intelligence and foreign interference and has laid down several measures to counter threats, including introducing binding rules, awareness-raising campaigns, and sanctions at the EU level.

End ‘denial’ on foreign interference, French report says

By: EBR | Friday, November 3, 2023

The French Parliamentary Delegation for Intelligence (DPR) has identified Russia, China, Turkey and Iran as leading the way in terms of foreign interference in France and Europe, and while Moscow currently holds the top stop

Now, President Emmanuel Macron’s government has decided to take the language war to court over the European Commission’s recent move to hire new officials using a selection process involving some tests that are only given in English.

War of the lingua franca

By: EBR | Thursday, November 2, 2023

England may be out of the EU, but English has not gone anywhere

The UK government said publicly it would back a temporary suspension on supporting or sponsoring any exploitation licences to mine metals from the sea floor until enough scientific evidence was available to understand the impact on ecosystems.

UK backs suspension of deep-sea mining in environmental U-turn

By: EBR | Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Britain has announced its backing for a moratorium on commercial deep-sea mining, after criticism from scientists, MPs and environmentalists of its previous stance in support of the emerging industry

The move by AWS last week came as part of an overall trend whereby American hyperscalers – a term used to describe cloud service providers with massive operations – seek to address the concerns of EU countries looking to keep their data within Europe’s borders.

France and Germany increasingly drift apart on digital sovereignty of cloud sector

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 31, 2023

The recent announcement of “a new, independent cloud for Europe” by Amazon Web Services (AWS) has underlined the growing divergence between the positions of Paris and Berlin regarding digital sovereignty in the cloud sector

Fewer than half of the African Union’s 54 member states have signed up to the deal that prevents ‘mobile’ multinational companies from shifting their profits from one tax regime to another.

It’s time rich countries ’talked tax’ with poorer ones

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 31, 2023

It’s been a zig-zag path for governments that have long wanted to nail tax-dodging mega-corporations, and 2023 will go down in the annals as the year they did so

“In the name of Spain, in the interest of Spain, in defence of coexistence among Spaniards, I defend today the amnesty in Catalonia for the events of the past decade (the region’s pro-independence movement),” the Socialist leader told PSOE/s Federal Committee.

Sanchez says pardoning Catalan separatists only way to regain power

By: EBR | Monday, October 30, 2023

Pardoning Catalan separatists is the only way for Spain’s acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez socialist PSOE party (S&D) to secure a majority to form a stable government

While Rutte acknowledged that an increase of the EU’s budget is “probably” necessary, he told reporters that “this should be done by reprioritising money within the EU budget. So, our three priorities are: reprioritise, reprioritise and reprioritise”.

Dutch PM lashes out at EU budget increase

By: EBR | Friday, October 27, 2023

Brussels should tighten its belt instead of asking EU countries for additional contributions to its multi-annual budget, outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte told the EU Council

After days of negotiations, the latest summit draft communique expects EU leaders to call “for continued, rapid, safe and unhindered humanitarian access and aid to reach those in need through all necessary measures including a humanitarian pause”.

EU member states divided over calls for ‘humanitarian pause’ in Gaza

By: EBR | Thursday, October 26, 2023

EU leaders are expected to call for a ‘humanitarian pause’ in fighting between Israel and Hamas, but the bloc remains divided over the exact wording

Like many others, the European Union (EU) has recognized the positives of encouraging more people to get around using pedal power, with the announcement of its ’European Declaration on Cycling’.

The EU just released a new declaration on cycling

By: EBR | Thursday, October 26, 2023

Imagine a form of transport that’s accessible, requires no fuel, generates zero greenhouse gas emissions, improves your health and can be used in car-free neighbourhoods

“It is shocking to see no improvement since our last survey,” FRA Director Michael O’Flaherty said. “Instead, people of African descent face ever more discrimination just because of the colour of their skin.”

Anti-Black racism is rising in EU countries, led by Germany, study finds

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Racism towards Black people is growing in Europe, with Germany, Austria and Finland showing the highest rates of discrimination and harassment

As we approach an AI-disrupted future, the question looms: Will AI become omnipresent and elevate every aspect of human life—what some call “AI everywhere”—or plunge it into existential uncertainty?

Generative AI Poses Challenges for Europe

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 24, 2023

The latest surge in large generative artificial intelligence models (LGAIMs) mirrors humanity’s age-old fascination with—and fear of—building machines with human-like intelligence and consciousness

After Brexit, the UK’s embassy to the EU was rebranded the UK Mission (UKMis) to the European Union and has seen its headcount cut by more than a quarter from 180 to 130. It has also seen a high level of turnover of staff since 2016, while further staff cuts are expected in the coming years.

More job cuts to EU mission risks ‘lost influence’, warns UK MP

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 24, 2023

MPs have warned that cuts to the United Kingdom’s diplomatic mission in Brussels risk undermining what remains of British influence in the European Union

In the letter, seen by Euractiv on Sunday (22 October) the countries—Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands and Portugal – highlight the benefit of renewables but argue they need more support.

Pro-renewables EU countries call for more support for green energy

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Eleven EU member states have called on the European Commission to help boost renewables, cut red tape, and facilitate the necessary legislation to get projects off the ground in a joint communication sent last week

The report from the IEA, which advises industrialised countries, contrasts with the view of oil producer group the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, which sees oil demand rising long after 2030 and calls for trillions in new oil sector investment.

World oil, gas, coal demand to peak by 2030, IEA says

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 24, 2023

World fossil fuel demand is set to peak by 2030 as more electric cars hit the road and China’s economy grows more slowly and shifts towards cleaner energy, the International Energy Agency said

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