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Les parlementaires ont mis à jour les réglementations liées à la pêche de thonidés afin d'harmoniser les règles au sein de la flotte de l’UE et des pays tiers. Si la plupart ces mesures ont fait l’unanimité au Parlement, les écologistes déplorent la mauvaise répartition des quotas pour la pêche artisanale.

US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday (6 February) that the bipartisan immigration bill, which also includes aid for Israel and Ukraine as it fights a Russian invasion, is falling apart under political pressure from Republican rival Donald Trump.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Czech conservatives pushing back against the idea of Orban joining the ECR, the Swedish Nord Stream investigation coming to an end soon, and so much more.

Die tschechischen Konservativen lehnen einen kolportierten Beitritt der Fidesz-Partei des ungarischen Ministerpräsidenten Viktor Orbán zur Fraktion der Europäischen Konservativen und Reformer (EKR) ab. Das Problem sei seine Haltung zur Ukraine. 

L’enquête criminelle menée par la Suède au sujet du sabotage des gazoducs Nord Stream 1 et 2 survenu en automne 2022 devrait s’achever prochainement, selon certains médias allemands.

Serbia got its new parliament on Tuesday after the mandates of all 250 MPs were approved at a constitutive session in which opposition members walked out in front of the podium with banners and whistles in protest before leaving the parliamentary chamber.

Croatian farmers – getting increasingly frustrated with the ‘demands’ of the Green Deal and trade liberalisation negotiations with Mercosur – could soon join their colleagues across the EU who have been protesting for weeks.

Moldova has found itself at the forefront of a hybrid war orchestrated by the Kremlin, Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister Luminița Odobescu said on Tuesday following a meeting with the new Moldovan Foreign Affairs Minister Mihai Popșoi, who was in Bucharest for his inaugural foreign visit.

The high-ranking police officer arrested by Bulgarian special services on Monday on suspicion of Russian espionage was exporting sensitive information from EU agencies and other European countries to the Kremlin, the Bulgarian prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday.

La Serbie s’est dotée mardi (6 février) d’un nouveau parlement après que les mandats de la totalité des 250 députés ont été approuvés lors d’une session constitutive au cours de laquelle les membres de l’opposition sont sortis en signe de protestation.

More and more lawmakers from previously conservative parties are changing their views on liberalising LGBTQ rights, although Poland is still far from introducing same-sex marriages, ruling Civic Platform (PO, EPP) MP Agnieszka Pomaska said during a BBC debate in Warsaw.

Despite the potential for nature restoration to bring benefits for multiple sectors across Europe, the funding gap remains immense and urgent. With 19 international organisations, we’re proposing a new funding model: “Landscape Finance”, a financing approach that supports holistic, community-driven landscape restoration.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government began structural and personnel changes in the partially state-owned petrol giant, Orlen, which has been controlled by the former conservative PiS (ECR) cabinet until now.

Czech conservatives reject the idea of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party joining the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group, Czech MEP Veronika Vrecionová wrote on social media, adding that they do not need someone who has blackmailed the rest of the EU over Ukraine.

Portuguese Foreign Affairs Minister João Gomes Cravinho reiterated his country's willingness to provide training in using F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine's air force, expressing the hope that these aircraft will be available at their maximum potential throughout 2024 while in Kyiv on Tuesday.

Just as the European People's Party (EPP) has been pitching itself as the ‘farmer's party’, the Partido Popular (PP) has stepped up its public presence to assert that they, unlike the far-right Vox party, are best placed to defend farmers against the “bureaucratic behemoth” in Brussels.

The tighter the bond between Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the more Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini distances himself from the 'Ursula majority', using the farmers' protests across Europe as an opportunity to renew opposition to "crazy" European policies.

A dozen locally-elected representatives on the "Notre Europe" list for the European elections called in an opinion piece for a strong but decentralised Europe that is closer to the day-to-day concerns of local players.

The European Parliament and Council have agreed a provisional deal on "historic" legislation aimed at ensuring greater transparency and public oversight of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) rating agencies.

The Swedish criminal investigation into the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipeline sabotage in the autumn of 2022 will likely conclude shortly after the prosecutor in charge, Mats Ljungqvist, announced that a decision would be made on Wednesday.