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The Netherlands' Farmer-Citizen Movement – BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB) – was born after the 2019 farmers’ protest against radically curb agriculture emissions.

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The future is geothermal: Hungarian city leads the way with renewable energy

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Discover Lisbon's historic Técnico Innovation Centre

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European Union leaders debated how to boost investment in several sectors, including defense

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REDACt: The European project coordinating rapid earthquake response in the Black Sea

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Boat with aid to Gaza departed from Cyprus

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State of the Union: Defence of democracy and aid for Gaza

ReproUnion: The European reproduction project tasked with tackling infertility

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Ursula von der Leyen will run for re-election as president of the European Commission

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Balancing Heritage and Innovation: Discover Slovenia's oldest town

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El capitán piloto Pete Gamble, izquierda, y el primer oficial John Konstanzer realizan una verificación previa al vuelo antes de despegar del aeropuerto de Dallas Fort Worth.

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Europe's largest underwater telescope reveals what is really going on in the sea...and the universe

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Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, right, talks to Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico at an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024.

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State of the Union: Orbán backs down as farmers carry on

Farmers block the highway Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024 near Strasbourg; eastern France.

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State of the Union: Farmers' protests and the defence of democracy

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen speaks with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Davos

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Charles Michel's career plans have surprised official Brussels - to put it mildly

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Ylva Johansson, the European Commissioner for home affairs, said that under the New Pact no member state would be "left alone" to deal with irregular migration.

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Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk, left, waves as he arrives for a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels, Friday, Dec. 15, 2023.

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Ecovillage Boekel: Discover the Netherlands' award-winning, sustainable housing community

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Preventing the next pandemic: The EU project funding research into infectious diseases

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Ethnic Armenian children from Nagorno-Karabakh look from a truck after arriving in Armenia's Goris in Syunik region, Armenia, on Sept. 28, 2023.

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Police behind a barrier look at a pile of potatoes dumped by protestors during a demonstration of farmers near the European Council

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Is this new EU-funded skin cancer screening device a game changer?

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Women cross back into Ukraine from Poland.

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This photo taken on October 13, 2023 shows a construction site for a family house in Soest, western Germany

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Why is Germany’s housebuilding industry collapsing?

Germany’s housebuilding industry is buckling under pressure from lagging and cancelled new orders and higher construction costs.

15/11/2023

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister for European & Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanishyna participates in a discussion at the Warsaw Security Forum, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022.

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State of the Union: Brussels says Ukraine's EU talks should start

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European filmmakers go green behind the scenes

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In this episode of Smart Regions, we follow a film crew in Slovakia as they endeavour to reduce their carbon footprint on set.

06/11/2023

Tackling social isolation: Northern Europe steps up to the challenge

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A vast European project is underway in seven countries across the North of Europe, to combat isolation by promoting inclusion. We take a look at the results in Norway.

23/10/2023

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PICSA: the European project for sustainable construction and transport in Andalucía

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Andalusia: sustainable construction and transport thanks to the PICSA

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The Spanish region of Andalucía is on a mission to insulate thousands of buildings to prevent heat loss and regulate temperatures indoors and it's all thanks to a European initiative.

09/10/2023

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks...during a visit at the construction site of the Baumettes 3 prison building in Marseille, France, Monday, June 26, 2023.

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France has a growing gang problem. It's so far failed to tackle it

Macron vows the state will be back in the quartiers nord of Marseille. What this statement actually implies is that it isn’t there now. One class-action lawsuit is working on bringing this to court.

04/10/2023

A woman carries her pet in a bag as she votes at a polling station in Madrid, Spain, July 23, 2023.

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Spain rolled out a new animal welfare law. It has many contradictions

Police in Spain now have powers to arrest people for leaving their pets alone following the adoption of a new animal welfare law that came into force last week.

03/10/2023

Tents are set up in close confines at a makeshift camp for homeless families, near the Porte de La Villette in Paris, Monday, Aug. 26, 2019.

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Migrants in France can be moved out of Paris. Here's what happens next

In May, the French government introduced a new plan to move migrants out of Paris. The idea has garnered both praise and criticism. The question is what's happening in practice.

29/09/2023

A literary gathering for children organised by Biblioteca Fantasia.

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How this school in a disadvantaged part of Spain is boosting literacy

A neighbourhood in Spain where the average salary is a fraction of the national one, unemployment is double the country's rate and school absenteeism runs rampant is showing the way on how to boost literacy among children.

27/09/2023

ECOMARE: Protecting marine biodiversity and providing care to injured animals

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There are two ECOMARE centres -The CPRAM hospital is open 24 hours a day, all year round and there is the CEPAM research centre, promoted by the University of Aveiro, which is open to the public on the third Wednesday of each month.

25/09/2023

Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers the keynote speech at the opening session of Hungary's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest.

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Hungary is funding European publications. But have they had an impact?

Viktor Orbán’s government is linked to funding for several right-wing publications in English. But have they had any impact?

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‘Where words end, the yoik begins’: The Sámi people’s struggles to preserve their tradition

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Europe's only indigenous people are demanding their rights in Brussels, which are threatened by the ecological transition and the lack of EU policies.

11/09/2023

A light installation is projected onto the building of the European Central Bank during a rehearsal in Frankfurt, Germany, Dec. 30, 2021.

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Eurozone GDP grows by 0.3% in second quarter of the year

The 20 countries that use the euro currency and their 346 million people saw modest economic growth of 0.3% growth in the second quarter of the year but the outlook remains relatively weak.

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In this July 24, 2017 photo, archived versions of two Russian anti-terrorism websites on a computer screen are photographed, in Paris.

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State of the Union: Europe takes a summer break

The continent is mostly on vacation, even if the war in Ukraine rages on.

04/08/2023

The mills and fountains on the island of Porto Santo brought back to life for visitors to enjoy

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In this episode of Smart Regions, discover the European project to restore the island of Porto Santo, which is reviving its cultural heritage by rehabilitating its windmills and public fountains. A reconnection with the past for a unique tourist experience.

31/07/2023

A worker cleans the street after celebrations at the conservative Popular Party headquarters in Madrid, Spain, Monday, July 24, 2023.

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State of the Union: Spanish stalemate, Frontex scrutiny & heatwaves

With summer well under way around Europe, the sun has started to set on the political season at large. Yet, we still have Spain, after the country’s politics was paralysed following the results of snap parliamentary elections last weekend.

28/07/2023

Leaders from the EU, Latin America and the Caribbean gathered in Brussels this week for their first meeting in eight years.

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State of the Union: Grain deal ends as Latin America comes to Brussels

The long-term viability of the agreement between Kyiv and Moscow had been up in the air for some time now.

21/07/2023

Two small Sicilian islands test decentralised green energy

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In this latest episode of Smart Regions, we find out how the islands of Favignana and Lampedusa are exploring the BloRin model of producing, sharing, and selling solar energy.

17/07/2023

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan waits for the start of a round table meeting of the North Atlantic Council during a NATO summit in Vilnius, Tuesday, July 11, 2023.

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State of the Union: Turkey drops Sweden NATO veto

Ankara had refused to endorse Stockholm as a candidate for the Western military alliance since last year.

14/07/2023

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Madrid on July 3, 2023.

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State of the Union: Madrid begins EU presidency & NATO summit nears

The annual meeting of allied leaders will take place in Vilnius next week.

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