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US warns of Russian effort to tilt 2024 elections in Europe against Ukraine

Euractiv.com - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 08:16
The United States believes Russia will conduct "information operations" aimed at turning opinion in Europe against Ukraine as countries across the continent go to the polls this year, the head of the State Department's office for disinformation said on Thursday (18 January).
Categories: European Union

Trotz Einigung: Rumänische Bauern blockieren weiter Grenze zur Ukraine

Euractiv.de - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 08:15
Die rumänische Regierung begann am Donnerstag (18. Januar) mit der Umsetzung der Einigung, die mit protestierenden Lkw-Fahrern und Landwirten erzielten worden ist. Die Proteste gehen jedoch weiter und blockieren nun einen zweiten Grenzübergang zur Ukraine.
Categories: Europäische Union

What to make of Europe’s upcoming carbon management strategy

Euractiv.com - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 08:11
The EU’s upcoming CO2 management strategy will propose sequestration of up to 650 million tonnes per annum by 2050 and kick off a controversial debate about the future of the bloc’s emissions trading scheme.
Categories: European Union

Antum Naqvi: Cricket-playing pilot flying high for Zimbabwe

BBC Africa - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 08:03
Antum Naqvi, a qualified airline pilot, sets his sights on the playing cricket for Zimbabwe after breaking domestic records.
Categories: Africa

EU’s health workforce ‘without a doubt’ worse off than before COVID-19

Euractiv.com - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 08:00
Health workers across the EU are burning out and leaving their professions following years of inaction to handle the dire situation. Following the Belgian presidency’s announcement of a potential EU health workforce strategy, two stakeholders and an analyst pinpoint what is most urgent at EU level.
Categories: European Union

African scrambles to comply with new EU due diligence rules

Euobserver.com - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 08:00
The EU's new due diligence laws, designed to address deforestation and human rights abuses in supply chains, risk having an uneven effect on African economies and farming, as governments and industry scramble to prepare compliance regimes.
Categories: European Union

Polnisches Verfassungsgericht erklärt Tusks Reform der Staatsmedien für rechtswidrig

Euractiv.de - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 07:58
Der umstrittene polnische Verfassungsgerichtshof entschied am Donnerstag (18. Januar), dass die Medienreformen der neuen Regierung von Donald Tusk rechtswidrig sind. Nun bahnt sich ein Kräftemessen an, da der Kulturminister die Entscheidung als "rechtlich unbedeutend" bezeichnete. 
Categories: Europäische Union

Le gouvernement fait volte-face sur les objectifs renouvelables et nucléaires dans la loi

Euractiv.fr - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 07:56
Les services du ministre de l'Économie, Bruno Le Maire, ont confirmé mercredi (17 janvier) que le projet de loi programmatique énergie-climat, critiqué pour son manque d'objectifs renouvelables, ne contiendra pas d'objectifs énergétiques du tout, du moins pour le moment.
Categories: Union européenne

Le Parlement européen demande une réforme de la Politique commune de la pêche

Euractiv.fr - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 07:52
Deux rapports d’initiative votés au Parlement européen jeudi (18 janvier) en plénière donnent le cap de l’évolution de la politique européenne des pêches, avec un accent mis sur la compétitivité de la flotte et l’abandon de certaines interdictions environnementales. Les écologistes accusent la droite et ses alliés d'être des « fossoyeurs de l'océan ».
Categories: Union européenne

Einigung: EU setzt auf emissionsfreie Lkw und Busse

Euractiv.de - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 07:43
Das EU-Parlament und die Mitgliedstaaten haben sich am Donnerstag (18. Januar) auf eine Verschärfung der CO₂-Flottengrenzwerte für schwere Nutzfahrzeuge geeinigt. Damit könnte es zu einem deutlichen Anstieg der Zahl sauberer Lkws und Busse in der EU kommen.
Categories: Europäische Union

L’Expresso : le Tribunal constitutionnel polonais déclare « illégaux » les changements apportés par le nouveau gouvernement aux médias publics

Euractiv.fr - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 07:40
Aujourd’hui dans L’Expresso : l'agenda anti-bureaucratie des libéraux allemands, élections présidentielles slovaques, les Balkans ont besoin d'une Allemagne forte, la loi influenceur française, réforme de la politique de pêche commune et rapport parlementaire cyberdéfense.
Categories: Union européenne

Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal: Tusk’s changes to public media ‘illegal’

Euractiv.com - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 07:39
In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about a new wave of farmers' protests looming in Germany, Czechia not being prepared to start ensuring compliance with the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA), and so much more.
Categories: European Union

First all-European commercial astronaut mission launched on flight to space station

Euractiv.com - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 07:38
Turkey's first astronaut and three other crew members representing Europe were launched from Florida on Thursday (18 January) on a voyage to the International Space Station in the latest commercially arranged mission from Texas startup Axiom Space.
Categories: European Union

L’ex-membre du Smer Peter Pellegrini va annoncer sa candidature à la présidence slovaque, ce qui pourrait renforcer Robert Fico

Euractiv.fr - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 07:35
Le président du Parlement slovaque et ancien Premier ministre, Peter Pellegrini, annoncera vendredi sa candidature à la présidence, ce qui, en cas de victoire, renforcerait l’emprise du gouvernement du Premier ministre Robert Fico, avec lequel il est politiquement lié depuis près de 20 ans.
Categories: Union européenne

Subventionskürzungen bleiben: Ampel-Parteien droht neue Welle von Bauernprotesten

Euractiv.de - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 07:32
Die Ampel-Parteien lenken im politischen Kräftemessen mit Landwirten nicht ein. Nachdem SPD, FDP und Grüne am Donnerstagsabend (18. Januar) beschlossen, an der Kürzung von Agrarsubventionen festzuhalten, drohen die Bauernproteste nun in eine zweite Woche zu gehen.
Categories: Europäische Union

Vučić in Davos: Western Balkans need a stronger Germany

Euractiv.com - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 07:26
Serbia and other Western Balkan countries need a stronger Germany, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said at a World Economic Forum debate in Davos, where he said Serbia had doubled its GDP in the past 10 years.
Categories: European Union

US’ Blinken wants Bosnia to end dependence on Russian gas

Euractiv.com - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 07:25
In a letter sent to the heads of diplomacy of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Gordan Grlić Radman and Elmedin Konaković, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called on them to influence the head of HDZ BiH, Dragan Čović, to urgently adopt the Law on the Southern Gas Interconnection, which would connect Bosnia and Croatia and reduce Bosnia’s dependence on Russian gas.
Categories: European Union

Protests in Romania rage on despite the government adopting brokered measures

Euractiv.com - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 07:23
The Romanian government adopted measures on Thursday, transposing into law the solutions reached in negotiations with protesting transporters and farmers during the week, although protesters remain on the streets and have extended their blockade to a second border crossing with Ukraine.
Categories: European Union

Greek PM says EU will work with ‘whoever’ US President people choose

Euractiv.com - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 07:21
Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday that Europe will have to work with whoever president US voters choose in the upcoming elections, warning simultaneously against telling people what they should do. Read more.
Categories: European Union

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