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Border controls will be reinstated as of 21 October for an initial period of 10 days, which the government may decide to extend.

Italy reinstates border controls with Slovenia, cites attack risk

By: EBR | Friday, October 20, 2023

Italy reinstated border controls with Slovenia as part of its strategy to improve home security against threats of terrorist attacks in Europe

The dispute centred on French support to extend the lifetime of its existing nuclear power fleet, with Germany warning this risked distorting the EU market.

Deal on EU electricity market reform: What did Paris and Berlin obtain?

By: EBR | Thursday, October 19, 2023

Both Germany and France claimed victory after an agreement was reached among EU countries to reform the EU’s electricity market

The results of Poland’s election shows that nationalist, Eurosceptic governments such as those of Hungary and Slovakia need not be a permanent and divisive feature of European politics.

A New Start for Poland

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 17, 2023

After eight years in power, Poland’s conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party has been defeated by the centrist Civic Coalition (KO) at last Sunday’s parliamentary election

Most foreign media described the possible ousting of the conservative ruling Law and Justice (PiS) government as the wind of democratic change in Polish politics, hoping that Donald Tusk’s Civic Platform (PO), if it returned to power, would put an end to the country’s conflict with the EU and return it to the EU’s mainstream on most matters.

Tusk-ruled Poland not the pro-EU paradise Brussels is hoping for

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Poland’s exit poll results may have been well received in several European capitals, with many hailing it as a possible end to the tug-of-war with Brussels should the current opposition form a government

At the core of the proposal are Minimum energy performance standards (MEPS), which set an obligation to renovate the 15% worst-performing buildings in each EU country, a move meant to target the poorest households, which cannot afford to renovate and are the most exposed to energy poverty.

Legislators water down EU buildings directive after marathon talks

By: EBR | Monday, October 16, 2023

Lawmakers made headway during a marathon negotiating session to overhaul the EU’s buildings directive

The Commission decided to restrict or ban Chinese telecom infrastructure, particularly from Huawei and ZTE, in June, urging member states to do the same.

Breton’s view of EU geopolitics in the telecom sector vis-a-vis China, US

By: EBR | Thursday, October 12, 2023

Commissioner Thierry Breton supported the need to find a financing model for investment in the EU telecom sector and advocated for more control and security

EU Neighbourhood Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi said that Tunisia was free to “wire back” €60 million in EU funds that were transferred to Tunis this week as part of the pact after President Kais Saied dismissed the sum as “derisory” and “charity”.

EU-Tunisia deal under threat amid frustration with President Saied

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 11, 2023

The EU’s controversial ‘cash for migrant control’ deal with Tunisia is looking increasingly fragile amid growing frustration in Brussels with President Kais Saied’s erratic behaviour

Scholz’s SPD received the worst results in post-war history, reaching 15% (-5) in Hesse and 8% (-2) in Bavaria, according to ARD preliminary results.

Scholz’s coalition suffers defeat in mid-term state elections

By: EBR | Monday, October 9, 2023

The German three-party government coalition has suffered major losses in two state elections in Bavaria and Hesse

Today, we have two Western countries at the forefront of European hypocrisy and blunt power politics. These countries are Austria and the Netherlands and the case at point is Romania’s and Bulgaria’s entry into the Schengen area.

Western Europe should be mindful of 2024 Eastern changes

By: EBR | Thursday, October 5, 2023

In December 2022, at a time when the European Union was recovering from the COVID-19 crisis, there was hope that the divisions between Eastern and Western Europe would fade

The rejection of the two Commission nominees is the latest twist in a saga that has seen growing political acrimony around the European Green Deal in recent months.

EU nominees fall victim to mounting Green Deal acrimony

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Political tensions surrounding the Green Deal reached boiling point in Brussels as the European Parliament rejected the two candidates nominated to share the Green Deal and climate portfolios left vacant

If the EU doesn’t seize the opportunity with an unprecedentedly ambitious global strategy, history will not be kind and the consequences of its failure will be felt far beyond Europe.

Global Europe 1: The EU’s path to super-power status

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 4, 2023

With the world in flux and geopolitics pulled in unpredictable directions, now is the time for the EU to develop a global strategy that’s distinct from its European one

One of the main concerns is the discrimination AI can generate. AI can be biased if the training data used to develop AI algorithms contains imbalances, reflects healthcare disparities, or mirrors existing biases in diagnoses and treatment decisions.

Ethics in AI needs to be advanced to better protect patients’ health

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds the potential to transform healthcare by enhancing various aspects of patient care, diagnostics, and administrative tasks

“Cloud credits” are the practice whereby a cloud provider offers its services to its new customers at a preferential rate for a set period.

France set to regulate cloud market more than EU

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 3, 2023

A comprehensive bill aiming to secure and regulate the internet in France aims to strictly respect the new digital European regulations and, when it comes to cloud regulation, will go even further

Smer’s decisive victory gave Fico a path to government with Hlas led by former prime minister Peter Pellegrini, who could also be persuaded to seek a pro-Western coalition with runner-up progressives as it may include an offer of the prime minister’s seat.

Slovak elections: Hungary celebrates, EU switches to alert mode

By: EBR | Monday, October 2, 2023

The victory of pro-Putin Robert Fico in Slovakia’s elections pleased Budapest, which saw an ally coming to power but caused concern among pro-EU forces

Owing to the freedom-oriented aspirations of former Warsaw Pact countries, there was also the expansion of membership of the European Union and NATO. It led to an unprecedented enlargement of the “geopolitical West.”

Why Europe Is Yesterday’s Hero

By: EBR | Friday, September 29, 2023

The three decades preceding 2008 saw an extraordinary upward curve in the enlargement of freedom in Europe, starting with democratization in Greece

The OSCE is the “only organisation that has an open dialogue with Russia”, said Slovenian Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon, while her Czech counterpart Jan Lipavsky added that it is “one of the pillars of the European security architecture”.

Keep channels open with Russia, say five EU states

By: EBR | Thursday, September 28, 2023

Foreign ministers of five central European states met in Vienna and urged that lines of communication with Russia be kept open through the OSCE to facilitate a path to peace in Ukraine

The EIB chief underlined the necessity of ambitious climate action as a driving force for development in the coming years, and the role of renewables towards energy independence.

EU bank chief warns against ‘Colonialism 2.0’ as green transition progresses

By: EBR | Monday, September 25, 2023

European Investment Bank (EIB) president Werner Hoyer highlighted the importance of climate action but warned of the risks of exploitation of the Global South during his speech

The aim is to amend and “expand” the 2016 agreement “with Greece’s initiative, because we have the more immediate interest” as a frontline migration state, the minister said.

Greece seeks EU-Turkey migration deal expansion

By: EBR | Monday, September 25, 2023

Greece in December will seek the renewal of a 2016 migration deal between the EU and Turkey, the Greek migration minister said

Firstly, Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen raised the topic in her State of the Union speech on 13 September. To reform the EU and make it better, she said, that means going through a European Convention and treaty change if and where it is needed.

Lets talk about… treaty change

By: EBR | Friday, September 22, 2023

For a long time, there had been no mention of EU treaty change. And then, all of a sudden

Zelenskyy discussed Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary’s refusal to drop the grain import ban despite the European Commission not prolonging it. The countries argue that they defend their own grain growers against falling demand and prices that harmed the domestic markets over the last year.

Poland-Ukraine ‘grain war’ escalates dangerously

By: EBR | Thursday, September 21, 2023

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has decided to stop supplying Ukraine with weapons in its war against Russia in reaction to escalating tensions between the two countries over grain imports

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