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Die EU brauche "mehr und nicht weniger" Zucker aus Kyjiw, so zuckerverarbeitende Lebensmittelhersteller wie Coca-Cola, Barilla und Lactalis. Ihre Aussage steht damit im direkten Widerspruch zu den Forderungen der Zuckerrübenerzeuger in der EU.

This morning, EU lawmaker François-Xavier Bellamy was named as the lead candidate for the French conservative Les Républicains party - effectively kicking off France's EU election campaign. On the side of the far right, the battle lines are being drawn as pro- or anti-Emmanuel Macron, while the left is looking to snatch the president's pro-EU voters.

Two decades since the EU's “big bang” enlargement in 2004, the bloc's long-stalled ambition to accept new members has experienced a striking revival. Yet, beyond the moral and geopolitical arguments lurks a seldom asked question - is there an economic case for enlargement, and if so, for whom, write Mirek Dusek and Andrew Caruana Galizia.

Global certification body the ISCC has revised down the extremely high quantities of used cooking oil reportedly collected in Italy and Malta for biofuels production, saying that the original figures were the result of accounting errors in the submitted data.

EU member states gave initial backing on Tuesday (16 January)  for the creation of a naval mission to protect ships from attacks by Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in the Red Sea, according to several European diplomats.

Le PDG de Microsoft Satya Nadella a défendu le partenariat de son groupe avec OpenAI, l'entreprise d'intelligence artificielle à l'origine de ChatGPT, un investissement dans le viseur des gendarmes européens de la concurrence.

From 1 January, Poland started enforcing strict regulations on the sale of energy drinks with caffeine or taurine, requiring an ID for their purchase. However, it was not long before the first beverage manufacturers attempted to circumvent the ban.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the West on Tuesday (16 January) to show a united front against Russian President Vladimir Putin and to step up its support for Kyiv, especially air defence, to ensure that Moscow does not prevail in the war.

Prorussische Falschmeldungen in Bulgarien haben zu einer großen Spaltung der Gesellschaft geführt. Sie würden den Staat daran hindern, schnell strategische außenpolitische Entscheidungen zu treffen, erklärten die großen Faktencheck-Organisationen in Bulgarien gegenüber Euractiv.

Sweden's government is considering paying pharmaceutical companies to store antibiotics to ensure the availability of older antibiotics in the country.

Die Frist für die Umsetzung und Einhaltung des Big-Tech-Regelwerks der EU rückt immer näher. Angesichts dessen sind die Konkurrenten der benannten "Gatekeeper"-Unternehmen besorgt, dass sie bei weitem nicht alle Anforderungen in ausreichendem Maße erfüllen.

Greece was condemned by the European Court of Human Rights in a case involving the deadly 2014 shooting of a Syrian refugee by the Greek coast guard.

Les partis socialistes allemand et espagnol ont annoncé qu’ils soutenaient le commissaire européen Nicolas Schmit comme tête de liste du Parti socialiste européen pour les élections de juin, ce qui signifie qu’il pourrait affronter Ursula von der Leyen si elle devait briguer un second mandat à la tête de la Commission.

Most political groups in the European Parliament want a probe into the European Commission's decision to unfreeze EU funds for Hungary, followed by a lawsuit in the EU's top court and a possible motion of censure, while also urging the Council to strip Hungary's voting rights over its rule of law deficiencies.

The EU needs “more and not less” supply from Kyiv, according to sugar-using food producers - a statement contradicting the demands of sugar beet growers, while Romanian farmers are blocking the borders in protest at the growing Ukrainian agricultural imports.

Une nouvelle étude a montré que l'eau en bouteille contient des centaines de milliers de nanoplastiques. Avec ces minuscules fragments de plastique qui s'infiltrent en nous, parviendrons-nous un jour à les tenir à distance ?

My role as a Brussels-based EU watcher became a lightning rod for just about everyone I met: fellow travelers, diplomats and officials, business leaders, students as well family, friends and colleagues.

La Cour européenne des droits de l'homme (CEDH) a condamné mardi la Grèce à verser 80 000 euros aux proches d'un migrant syrien, décédé après avoir été blessé par balle par les garde-côtes grecs en 2014.

As hunger and food insecurity deepen, Africa is confronting an unprecedented food crisis. Estimates show that nearly 282 million people on the continent, or 20 percent of the population, are undernourished. Numerous challenges across the African continent threaten the race to achieve food security; research and innovative strategies are urgently needed to transform current systems […]

As the deadline to comply with the EU’s Big Tech rulebook is fast approaching, the competitors of the designated gatekeepers are worried they are nowhere near satisfactory compliance.