Romania’s lower house passes judicial overhaul bills
Romania’s lower house of parliament approved yesterday (13 December) legislation to overhaul its justice system, legislation that the European Commission, the US State Department and the country’s...
View ArticleAccess to clinical trials and innovative treatments at risk after Brexit
LONDON: Patients in Britain risk delays to access life-saving medicines if the UK deviates from EU regulatory standards post-Brexit, a leading medical representative has warned.
View ArticleBalkan coal power costing lives, urgent action is needed
More than 60,000 premature deaths in Europe could be prevented over the next decade if urgent action is taken on air pollution from Europe’s dirtiest coal-fired power plants, write Dragana Mileusnić...
View ArticleMongolia vows action to get off EU tax haven blacklist
Mongolia needs to take action at "all levels of government" to get itself removed from a European Union blacklist of tax havens, its foreign minister said, following talks with European counterparts.
View ArticleWith freedom of thought under fire, Poland drifts away from democracy
When I think about the past two years in Poland, the infamous poem by Władysław Broniewski - "Word about Stalin", written on the occasion of the Soviet dictator's 70th birthday - comes to my mind,...
View ArticleItaly condemned again for failing to recognise same-sex marriages
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) condemned Italy on Thursday (14 December) for failing to recognise same-sex marriages, a ruling that will result in a token financial compensation for the...
View ArticleFrance, Portugal and Spain to attend mini energy summit
Portugal will organise early next year a summit dedicated solely to energy interconnectors, as lawmakers work to end the Iberian peninsula’s energy market isolation.
View ArticleEU expected to mount pressure on Minsk over illicit ‘cheap whites’
The rising illicit tobacco trade and particularly of the so-called cheap whites from Belarus to the EU will be discussed at the next EU-Belarus meeting on 19 December, an EU official told EURACTIV.com.
View ArticleMember states give green light to Commission’s plan on endocrine disruptors
EU member states backed on Wednesday (13 December) the European Commission’s new plan to regulate endocrine disruptors, disappointing environmentalists.
View ArticleEU shouldn’t allow Greek violation of environmental legislation
It is no secret that the Public Power Corporation (PPC) heavily influences the Greek government, but the EU institutions should step in to prevent a violation of European environmental legislation,...
View ArticleEurope must look beyond the Circular Economy Package
The EU’s Circular Economy Package is delivering some important progress on supporting business resource efficiency. But the circular economy will need to remain top of the agenda for many years to come...
View Article‘Greenwashed oil’ set to win from renewable transport targets, biofuel...
Biofuel producers in the Visegrad countries plus Lithuania and Bulgaria have warned that a phase-out of biofuels will lead to a phase-in of ‘greenwashed’ fossil fuels under the Renewable Energy...
View ArticleA charter for the world’s metastatic breast cancer patients
The world’s leading metastatic breast cancer (MBC) experts and advocates came together in Lisbon in November to welcome the ABC Alliance Global Charter. Marc Beishon explains.
View ArticleNew Polish PM Morawiecki makes summit debut
Poland's newly appointed Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki will attend his first European summit in Brussels on Thursday (14 December), where leaders and policymakers hope he will be more cooperative...
View ArticleThe Brief: On three big issues, the EU stands united
It was a big surprise to see an institutional crisis unfold this week, with the harsh and undiplomatic reaction of Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos to a letter by Council President Donald...
View ArticleIn Focus: Sinclair Davidson on plain packaging
Professor Sinclair Davidson from RMIT University in Australia joins EURACTIV's Brian Maguire to talk about the plain packaging policy for tobacco products introduced in Australia five years ago.
View ArticleEU must not burn the world’s forests for ‘renewable’ energy
A flaw in Europe’s clean energy plan allows fuel from felled trees to qualify as renewable energy when in fact this would accelerate climate change and devastate forests, warn a group of scientists...
View ArticleZero emissions from forest sector by 2030 with new EU deal
The European Council reached a preliminary agreement with the European Parliament on the land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) regulation on Thursday (14 December), closing the trilogues...
View ArticleMay tells EU Brexit on track despite vote disappointment
British Prime Minister Theresa May sought to brush off a humiliating parliamentary defeat as she arrived at a Brussels summit on Thursday (14 December) insisting that Brexit was on track as EU leaders...
View ArticleMigration row mars EU summit, exposes divides
EU leaders ended the first day of the end-of-year European Council summit with no sign of tensions thawing amid recent disagreements on migration, which have once again exposed divides between eastern...
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