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Romanian minister’s National Recovery Plan transfer proposal risks Cohesion Policy

Euractiv.com - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 07:33
The European Funds Minister Adrian Câciu announced on Wednesday that representatives of the EU Commission have understood the need to transfer delayed investments, but it could carry a risk of non-implementation within the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNNR) to...
Categories: European Union

New construction law will harmonise Serbia’s legislation with EU, says minister

Euractiv.com - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 07:33
The Law on Planning and Construction is in line with the principles of the EU and is beneficial for Serbia to harmonise its legislation with the EU, said Construction, Transport, and Infrastructure Minister Goran Vesić. As he stated in an...
Categories: European Union

Rama: Greek interference in Albanian justice has no place in democracy, sovereignty

Euractiv.com - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 07:32
Greece’s threats to block Albania’s EU accession path over the arrest of Albanian ethnic Greek Mayor of Himare Fredi Beleri on suspicion of vote buying are a complete contradiction of the country’s sovereign right to exercise and implement its own...
Categories: European Union

Giorgia Meloni renouvellera-t-elle l’initiative des Nouvelles route de la soie ?

Euractiv.fr - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 07:31
L’Italie devra décider si elle renouvelle ou non l’initiative des Nouvelles routes de la soie (Belt and Road Initiative, BRI) d’ici la fin de l’année, mais la Première ministre italienne, Giorgia Meloni, s’est bien gardée de donner une idée définitive sur la question.
Categories: Union européenne

China slowdown ‘mostly positive’ for EU economy, says Bruegel economist

Euractiv.com - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 07:30
China's economic slowdown could help reduce inflation in Europe, while economic loss felt by EU companies due to reduced exports would likely be felt anyway as China pivots towards more self-reliance, economist Alicia García-Herrero told EURACTIV in an interview.
Categories: European Union

ECB-Panetta: Capital Markets Union might require EU fiscal capacity

Euractiv.com - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 07:28
The outgoing member of the executive board of the European Central Bank (ECB) Fabio Panetta argued that a genuine Capital Markets Union (CMU) might require the EU to have a standing fiscal capacity with a borrowing function.
Categories: European Union

Athens fumes after NATO praises Turkey over 1922 war victory against Greece

Euractiv.com - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 07:25
Greece filed a complaint to NATO’s chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday after the Ankara-based Allied Land Command (LANDCOM) praised on social media Turkey over its victory against Greece in a war in 1922.
Categories: European Union

Poland OK’s new legislation for constructing renewable energy sources

Euractiv.com - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 07:23
A bill aimed at increasing the share of renewable energy sources in Poland’s energy mix will enter into force soon after being signed off by President Andrzej Duda.
Categories: European Union

Portuguese government made no effort with sanctions on Russia, says think tank

Euractiv.com - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 07:21
The government has made ‘no effort’ since the start of the war in Ukraine to apply the sanctions defined by the EU, particularly with regard to the assets of Russian oligarchs, said Portugal’s Frente Cívica (Civic Front) association on Wednesday....
Categories: European Union

Spanish foreign ministry complains to UK over Gibraltar waters incident

Euractiv.com - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 07:20
The Spanish Foreign Ministry has lodged a formal complaint with the UK’s embassy in Madrid over what Madrid deems to be three ‘serious incidents’ in waters near the Rock of Gibraltar in August. According to a ministry source in touch...
Categories: European Union

Sánchez rejects Feijóo’s ‘offer’ of two-year government, to ‘save own skin’

Euractiv.com - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 07:18
Partido Popular leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo only wants to ‘save his own skin’ with the offer he made to acting Prime Minister and socialist leader Pedro Sánchez to put in place a two-year conservative government, the spokesperson of the progressive...
Categories: European Union

Norwegian foreign minister engulfed in arms scandal

Euractiv.com - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 07:17
Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt’s husband bought shares in arms manufacturer Kongsberg Gruppen in recent years while she was in office, although she was unaware at the time, the minister told a press conference on Wednesday. “Based on an assessment by...
Categories: European Union

Belgian PM rejects undocumented migrant regulation to address unemployment

Euractiv.com - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 07:12
Prime Minister Alexander De Croo (Open VLD, Renew) positioned himself against a proposal aiming to regulate undocumented migrants – which was issued to address the unemployment crisis in Wallonia – on Wednesday. This proposal was made earlier this summer in...
Categories: European Union

Politicians question France’s doctrine in Africa amid Gabon coup

Euractiv.com - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 07:11
While radical left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon accused French President Emmanuel Macron of having supported incumbent president Ali Bongo until the end, Marine Le Pen pointed to the- in her words- pitiful results of the government’s African policy. In Gabon, Ali...
Categories: European Union

Bulgarian oligarch tries to get off Magnitsky list

Euractiv.com - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 07:08
Bulgarian oligarch Vasil Bozhkov, who returned home from Dubai on Friday after three years in hiding from multiple criminal charges, is trying to get off the US sanctions list under the Global Magnitsky Act, where he ended up in the...
Categories: European Union

L’Espagne dénonce les activités maritimes du Royaume-Uni au large de Gibraltar

Euractiv.fr - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 07:06
Le ministère espagnol des Affaires étrangères a déposé une plainte officielle auprès de l’ambassade du Royaume-Uni à Madrid concernant ce que Madrid considère comme trois « incidents sérieux » survenus dans les eaux proches du rocher de Gibraltar au mois d’août.
Categories: Union européenne

Meeting European Targets: The Journey to 100% Recyclable Packaging

Euractiv.com - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 07:00
The European Commission wants ALL packaging recyclable by 2030. A reduction in waste is also targeted, along with increased reuse and refill. But is the food and beverage industry on course to do its part to meet those European targets?...
Categories: European Union

Le Premier ministre belge rejette la réglementation sur les sans-papiers pour lutter contre le chômage

Euractiv.fr - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 06:59
Le Premier ministre belge Alexander De Croo (Open VLD, Renew) s’est prononcé mercredi (30 août) contre une proposition visant à réglementer les migrants sans-papiers — qui a été présentée pour faire face à la crise du chômage en Wallonie.
Categories: Union européenne

Czech ANO party presents evidence of liberalism to remain in EU’s ALDE party

Euractiv.com - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 06:58
The Czech ANO party of former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has given ALDE – a pan-European liberal political party, which is represented in the European Parliament as Renew Europe – materials in which it defends its liberalism in a bid...
Categories: European Union

Swedish Liberals and far-right clash over school’s duty to report illegal children

Euractiv.com - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 06:57
An argument broke out between the ruling Liberals and their ally far-right party, Sweden Democrats, over the obligation for schools to report children from undocumented families on Wednesday. On Wednesday, the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD) reportedly demanded that the Liberal...
Categories: European Union

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