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May 27, 2024 8:58 PM

EU clears law to increase domestic green tech production

European Union governments formally cleared on Monday a new law designed to ensure the bloc produces 40% of its solar panels, wind turbines, heat pumps and other clean tech equipment and to help European industry compete with U.S. and Chinese rivals....

May 15, 2024 3:27 PM

EU urges Georgia to withdraw ‘foreign agent’ bill

The European Union urged Georgia on Wednesday to withdraw its controversial "foreign agents" law and warned that the measure would set back the country's ambitions to join the bloc. "The adoption of this law negatively impacts Georgia's progress on ...

May 8, 2024 4:31 PM

Whooping cough epidemic sweeps Europe, health agency says

European countries have reported a surge in whooping cough cases in 2023 and the first quarter of 2024, with 10 times as many identified as in each of the previous two years. In total, nearly 60,000 cases were reported by European Union and European...

April 15, 2024 4:59 PM

Europe joins US in urging restraint by Israel after Iranian attack

Israel's European allies urged it on Monday to show restraint over Iran's weekend missile and drone attack, calling on Israeli leaders to step away from "the edge of the cliff" of escalation in the Middle East. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netany...

March 5, 2024 3:07 PM

EU provisionally agrees on law to cut packaging waste

The European Union has reached a provisional deal on a new law to cut packaging waste and ban single-use plastics, such as supermarket bags for fruit and mini hotel shampoo bottles in hotels, albeit with exemptions for certain sectors. The European ...

December 20, 2023 5:15 PM

EU agrees new rules on hosting migrants, seeks to cut numbers

The European Union reached agreement early on Wednesday on new rules designed to share out the cost and work of hosting migrants more evenly and to limit the numbers of people coming in. Representatives of the European Parliament and of EU governmen...

December 13, 2023 10:10 AM

Poland’s Donald Tusk wins confidence vote, sets pro-EU path

Polish prime minister Donald Tusk's government won a vote of confidence in parliament on Tuesday, as he set out a pro-European Union vision for Poland that marks radical change after eight years of nationalist rule and disputes with Brussels. Presen...

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