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“Our schools are continually put under test, and over the past months, breaches to laicite have increased considerably, in particular with (pupils) wearing religious attire like abayas and kameez,” Education Minister Gabriel Attal told a news conference to explain Sunday’s ban.

French ban of abaya robes in schools draws applause, criticism

By: EBR | Wednesday, August 30, 2023

French conservatives applauded the government’s decision to ban children from wearing the abaya

The president has promised to take “a major political initiative” for the end of the summer to “make a nation” and launch “a cycle of discussions” with the opposition, as he said in Le Figaro Magazine at the beginning of August.

Macron gathers parties to build political agenda, opposition cynical

By: EBR | Wednesday, August 30, 2023

The leaders of the political parties represented in the French parliament will gather on Wednesday around President Emmanuel Macron, who wants to identify points of political convergence

As the EU’s institutions get back to work after the summer break, its leaders and European governments cannot afford to accept the war in Ukraine as the new normal.

The war in Ukraine is about Europe’s future

By: EBR | Wednesday, August 30, 2023

The Europeans cannot afford to let the war in Ukraine drag on

Despite deadly deportations to the desert by the Tunisian regime, the agreement leads to a 40 percent increase on boat migrants. In addition, the number of drowning deaths is rising again.

EU-Tunisia deal leads to more migration and more deaths

By: N. Peter Kramer | Tuesday, August 29, 2023

The EU migration deal with Tunisia turns out to be a macabre flop

For the first time, the EU executive’s enlargement package will also include reports on Ukraine, Moldova, who applied for EU candidate status last year, and Georgia, who received a ‘European perspective’.

EU’s enlargement buffet

By: EBR | Monday, August 28, 2023

As the EU continues its soul-searching exercise to structure its approach to future enlargement, hopefuls outside the bloc now float ‘progressive’ integration as the short-term answer

The European Parliament is currently tabling amendments to the regulation and considering extending the rules to transportation, storage, packaging and distribution services which might use forced labour.

EU’s hopes to make trade more sustainable, diversified before 2024

By: EBR | Tuesday, August 8, 2023

With the 2024 European elections and the reorganisation of European Commission jobs looming, Brussels must hurry to conclude crucial negotiations on sustainable and diversified EU trade by the end of 2023

The result would be an electricity grid that could stretch to the sun – a distance of some 152 million kilometres – to meet the demands of a net-zero world.

Getting our grids fighting fit for an electrified future

By: EBR | Friday, August 4, 2023

With European summers in full swing, our reliance on gas wanes as the warmer weather heats our homes and our businesses

While campaigning for the 2024 EU elections is yet to get in full swing, and it remains unclear who will lead the fight for Macron’s Renew, the president is seeking to boost his pro-Europe credentials among the French political contenders.

EU elections: Macron slams French opposition parties as ‘ambiguous’ on Europe

By: EBR | Friday, August 4, 2023

Both left- and ring-wing political forces have been “ambiguous” on their stances towards the EU, making them unfit to sit in the European Parliament after the 2024 EU elections, France’s Emmanuel Macron said

The magnitude of a transition in a post-quantum world will likely affect every internet user. The risks of breaking common encryption span from endangering financial transactions, to the disclosure of medical records, via revealing national security secrets.

Is Europe being sidelined in the quantum computing race?

By: EBR | Monday, July 31, 2023

As quantum-powered cyber-attack threats become more real by the day, liberal democracies and autocratic regimes are racing to develop quantum-safe encryption

According to the respected political pollster YouGov, a majority of Britons (55%) say that if the EU referendum were taking place now, they would vote to Remain.

Regretting Brexit: Has the UK Seen the Error of Its Ways?

By: EBR | Monday, July 31, 2023

For the first time, Britain is saying it would vote to rejoin the EU if a new referendum to reverse the decision of the one in 2016 were to be held

Fighting off a historic surge in prices, the ECB has lifted borrowing costs by 4 percentage points since last July and essentially promised another quarter-point increase this month, making Thursday’s decision the easiest all year.

ECB to hike rates again, keep options open for September

By: EBR | Thursday, July 27, 2023

The European Central Bank will raise interest rates for the ninth time in a row and keep the door open to further moves

According to the draft report, on average, one in four children and young people, especially 16–24-year-olds, spend over seven hours a day on the internet. More than two to three hours in front of a screen already counts as excessive screen time.

EU lawmaker points to mental health risks for online services’ addictive design

By: EBR | Thursday, July 27, 2023

A European Parliament draft report about online services’ addictive design paints a damning picture of the mental health consequences of excessive screen time and calls for new EU rules to address the problem

While wildfires are common in the Mediterranean, but the climate crisis is increasing their intensity and frequency, meaning larger, hotter fires more often.

Sleepwalking into climate catastrophe

By: EBR | Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Europe is on fire again, and pictures from this year’s wildfires in Greece, Spain, and Italy look more like scenes from a dystopian film than real life, but this is likely just the start

At a meeting of EU agriculture ministers on Tuesday (25 July), Romania submitted an ‘any other business’ point requesting that the Commission consider allowing the derogations in 2024, echoing calls from seven other member states that had pushed for further flexibility on environmental measures in June.

Commission clueless on impact of environmental farming exemptions amid further requests

By: EBR | Wednesday, July 26, 2023

The European Commission is in the process of considering whether to grant further farming exemptions from environmental measures following requests from member states

The latest Fostering Effective Energy Transition Report says that the actions we take in the next few years are critical to the success of our long-term energy goals.

Is Europe’s gas market ready for winter?

By: EBR | Wednesday, July 26, 2023

The invasion of Ukraine created ripples through the global energy market, particularly in the European Union (EU), which had to pivot quickly to secure enough gas for winter 2022/23

Participants from more than 20 countries agreed to make funding available to support development projects in what Meloni said would be a “Rome Process” that would last for several years.

Meloni builds alliance to tackle illegal migration

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Nations from the Mediterranean, Middle East and Africa agreed steps to try to slow unauthorised migration and to tackle some of the pressures driving people to leave their homes and attempt to reach Europe

“Constructive steps by Ankara on the Cyprus problem will allow us to consider several openings towards Turkey in response, in the form of a gradual and mutually beneficial package, in parallel with the resumption and progress in the UN-led negotiations, creating thus a win–win situation,” the Cypriot official said.

Cyprus ready to trade Turkey’s EU accession process in favour of settlement talks

By: EBR | Thursday, July 20, 2023

Nicosia is lobbying to appoint a special envoy for Cyprus in the hope of restarting talks with Turkey and moving toward a settlement on the divided island, using the EU accession process as an incentive

“This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship”: the words Orban himself posted on his Facebook page, along with a picture with Ciolacu.

Romania’s Ciolacu and Hungary’s Orban: the start of a beautiful friendship

By: EBR | Thursday, July 20, 2023

Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met in Romania on Wednesday, although it was not on the Romanian PM’s agenda, and there was no official announcement

“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

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