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“I know that it is not at all popular. I think that a European Federation or a United States of Europe would only put Europe in a position where we would be a truly equal partner in the game between China, America, or Russia and India,” he added.

Czech EU minister: making Europe a Federation will make it an equal global player

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Europe will become an equal player in the global format only when it becomes a federation, Czech Minister for European Affairs Martin Dvorak

With an approach defined as “prudent and realistic”, EU ambassadors agreed on a common position on the European Commission’s proposal for the 2024 EU budget reducing budget lines in most headings, except for humanitarian aid and public administration expenditure.

EU Council reviews proposed 2024 budget downwards

By: EBR | Monday, July 17, 2023

Ambassadors of EU member states reached a common position on the proposed EU budget for 2024, suggesting downward adjustments in several areas while increasing spending for humanitarian aid

“It’s time to end the ‘take, make, dispose’ model which is so harmful to our planet, our health and our economy,” said Alessandra Moretti, Italian centre-left MEP who is the Parliament’s speaker on the proposal.

Parliament vote boosts EU green product rules, leaves out online sales

By: EBR | Friday, July 14, 2023

The European Parliament voted to strengthen the EU’s draft Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), but left out online sales from the scope of the regulation

The strategy lists telecommunication infrastructures as critical infrastructure for national security and states that “public 5G mobile telephone networks” have already been protected by specific laws.

Technological independence key focus in Germany’s China strategy

By: EBR | Friday, July 14, 2023

Germany’s first-ever China strategy puts technology at the heart of its efforts to lessen dependence on Beijing in areas from raw materials supplies, critical infrastructure protection, and cybersecurity, to counter-espionage and fighting disinformation

HERA Invest, a flagship initiative of the European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA), will provide an additional €100 million to the InvestEU programme to support research and development (R&D) related to the top priority health threats, financed through the EU4Health programme.

Commission announces additional funding to boost preparedness for health threats

By: EBR | Thursday, July 13, 2023

The European Commission and the European Investment Bank announced the creation of the HERA Invest initiative, offering €100 million for innovative solutions to future health threats

Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra, who said he was also stepping down as head of the CDA, one of the parties in the fallen coalition, said he had an “incredible amount of respect” for Rutte.

Rutte to quit politics after record 13-year term as Dutch PM

By: EBR | Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said he was leaving politics after nearly 13 years in charge, in a shock end to his time as the longest-serving leader in the history of the Netherlands

‘Nuclear alliance’ to meet again at France’s initiative

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 11, 2023

The group of ‘nuclear alliance’ states will meet with the European Commission on the fringes of the informal EU energy ministers’ meeting to seek guarantees on the inclusion of nuclear power in the EU’s energy transition

EU investment into New Zealand has a potential to grow by up to 80%. This landmark agreement also includes unprecedented sustainability commitments, including respect of the Paris Climate Agreement and core labour rights.

EU and New Zealand sign ambitious free trade agreement

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 11, 2023

The EU and New Zealand have today signed their free trade agreement (FTA), which will deliver significant gains for the EU

Transfer of personal data from the EU to the US was deemed illegal by the Court of Justice of the European Union in two landmark cases. In the last verdict, Schrems II, the EU judges pointed to disproportionate access and inadequate protection of European bulk data held by US security services, as first revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013.

EU Commission adopts new EU-US data transfer framework

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 11, 2023

The European Commission formalised its new adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework providing a new legal framework for transatlantic data flows

The stimulus of backing Ukraine against Russia’s invasion has seen an unprecedented new commitment to defence spending. It won’t, however, be nearly enough if European armaments makers continue to trail behind in AI.

Without an AI boost, Europe’s defence face obsolescence

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 11, 2023

European defence autonomy may still be a long way off, but at least it’s coming into sight

“Every time, there is a very high level of violence” in France, European Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders said reacting to the behaviour of the French police in the context of their response to the riots.

Riots: Paris slams EU commissioner’s criticism of policing

By: EBR | Monday, July 10, 2023

The French government said that EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders had no competence to comment on policing in France in the wake of recent riots

To prevent manufacturers from leaving the country, German Economy Minister Robert Habeck has proposed to subsidise energy consumption for key indutrial sectors that are heavy consumers of electricity. In return, companies would be obliged to keep production at home and invest in the green transition.

Berlin annoyed by EU’s reluctance on industrial power tariff

By: EBR | Friday, July 7, 2023

Germany’s economy minister has defended plans to subsidise electricity consumption for energy-intensive industries, despite warnings from Brussels and smaller EU member states that it would distort competition on the EU single market

The text adopted by Parliament proposes the creation of transnational lists which would elect 27 MEPs from across the bloc, as well as giving the possibility for EU citizens to indicate their preferred candidate for the presidency of the European Commission.

Most member states hesitant about EU electoral law reform

By: EBR | Friday, July 7, 2023

Most EU countries are hesitant or actively against some of the key proposals of the bloc’s proposed reform of its electoral law, according to the results of a survey conducted by the Swedish presidency

In 2022, China supplied 27 tonnes of gallium to Germany, accounting for 55% of total imports. Regarding germanium, China supplied 3 tonnes, or 75%, according to data supplied by the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR).

Germany says preparing for possible China mineral export controls

By: EBR | Thursday, July 6, 2023

A German official said the country has been working to secure long-term supplies of critical and strategic raw materials as it assesses the possible effects of Chinese export controls on some metals used in semiconductors

Of those banks, 17 had explicitly excluded nuclear energy from their green financing frameworks, while 12 had frameworks that were silent on nuclear, and one had no such framework, the researchers said.

Major banks yet to match EU with nuclear green label, study finds

By: EBR | Thursday, July 6, 2023

None of the world’s 30 major banks have explicitly included nuclear energy in their criteria for issuing green or sustainability-linked bonds, despite an EU decision last year to label it as sustainable

Now it appears that such a regional policy to cushion climate action is needed elsewhere, too: To defuse social dynamite in rural areas, Europe must prepare its cow phase-out.

Prepare for the cow phase-out

By: EBR | Wednesday, July 5, 2023

As EU countries phase out coal, they support their affected regions in transitioning economically

We know why the idea of European strategic autonomy struck a nerve among many EU actors then. In line with a fragmentation of global and regional orders, the EU faced manifold internal and external challenges, lending urgency to rethinking European security.

European Strategic Autonomy 2.0: What Europe Needs to Get Right

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 4, 2023

The EU’s strategic autonomy ambitions have not materialized

While the government has been struggling to agree on the upcoming federal budget since the start of the year, Lindner introduced strict austerity targets for the individual ministries to close the existing financial gap of €20 billion. With the new budget, this target is about to be met.

Finance minister puts Germany back on austerity course

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 4, 2023

German Finance Minister Christian Lindner will stay true to his goal of reimposing Germany’s debt brake for the first time since 2019 in the budget that is to be approved by the Federal Cabinet

The European Commission has suspended its efforts to get member states and parliament to ratify an investment agreement reached with China at the end of 2020, after seven years of talks, following differences over human rights in the Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang.

EU ambassador regrets lack of progress with China on trade

By: EBR | Monday, July 3, 2023

The European Union’s ambassador to China expressed regret over the lack of “substantial progress” with Beijing on trade talks, as EU countries seek to reduce their economic dependence on the Asian giant

Over a year has passed since the Commission proposed European health data space (EHDS), a new legislative proposal with ambitions to make a true revolution in health data and unleash its full potential for all stakeholders – from patients and healthcare professionals to policymakers and researchers.

EU Parliament solving riddle of secondary use of data in health data space

By: EBR | Monday, July 3, 2023

As the European Parliament debates how European health data space should be shaped, the co-rapporteur of the file has warned that the agreements regarding the secondary use of data were the hardest to reach

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