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EU Parliament will hear candidates for top privacy job on 16 January

The current European Data Protection Supervisor mandate ends next week.

29/11/2024

Health news

Why does the EU now have two health Commissioners?

How health topics will be divided between two Commissioner for the first time is a poser for the new executive.

29/11/2024

Health news

Smoking ban resolution strongly rejected by EU Parliament

A resolution on smoking bans, initially backed by a majority of MEPs, was widely rejected after attempts by right-wing groups to exclude novel tobacco products from the text.

28/11/2024

Tech News

EU aims to regulate environmental impact of AI through delegated act

The EU executive is looking at the energy used by large language models and standard bodies to calculate a benchmark.

28/11/2024

Europe News

Seven countries back call to delay tougher car emissions limits

Italy and Poland are among seven EU member states that have aligned with the car industry and its call for a delay to stricter CO2 emissions standards.

28/11/2024

Business

HSBC €31,7 million trader 'chat room' cartel fine upheld by EU court

The European judges dismissed HSBC’s procedural challenge against the cartel fine imposed by the European Commission in 2021.

27/11/2024

Tech News

Romanian authorities ask EU to investigate TikTok role in election

TikTok was widely used by the frontrunner in the Romanian presidential election last week.

27/11/2024

Tech News

‘Pressing need’ for influencers to learn to fact-check, UNESCO says

A new UNESCO survey found that 62 per cent of online influencers do not check the facts of content they share with audiences.

27/11/2024

Tech News

Meta offers EU Commission online teen protection proposal

The call comes as several of the incoming Commissioners have named child safety online a top priority.

26/11/2024

Europe News

Mercosur: France seeks to rally blocking minority against trade deal

While Germany and Spain strongly endorse the Mercosur deal, France is trying to rally a blocking minority to halt the agreement. It is hopeful that Italy, Austria, Poland and the Netherlands will join Paris.

26/11/2024

Nutrition

European consumers baffled by food labelling spaghetti

Lack of EU actions has led to an overwhelming array of labels and claims, leaving consumers struggling to make informed choices, according to EU auditors.

25/11/2024

Europe News

Violence against women as 'worrying' in the EU as a decade ago

One in three women in the European Union has experienced gender-based violence in their lifetime, a new joint survey reveals.

25/11/2024

Tech News

Consumer group report adds to fight against dynamic pricing

Euroconsumers, a consumer rights advocacy group, has raised concerns about the lack of transparency in the algorithms behind dynamic pricing. This issue could soon be addressed in the upcoming EU law on online consumer protection.

25/11/2024

Europe News

Trading blows, Newsletter

This week's key events presented by Euronews' EU senior competition and trade reporter Peggy Corlin.

25/11/2024

Green News

COP 29: Brazil warns no deal unless rich states up finance targets

Brazilian chief negotiator - representing next COP host country - told Euronews second Azeri finance bid came too late in summit, leaving doubt over whether deal can be clinched.

22/11/2024

Culture news

Rokia Traoré to be extradited to Belgium over child custody case

After their split in 2018, Malian Rokia Traoré has withheld her nine-year-old daughter from her Belgian partner.

22/11/2024

Tech News

Governments ask EU Commission to beef up cybersecurity agency Enisa

The extra financial and human resources would come as the Cybersecurity Act is up for a review.

22/11/2024

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Workers put up a 20-meter tall Christmas tree in Grand Place in Brussels

The Christmas tree was installed this morning and will remain in Grand Place until January 5. The 20-meter tall Nordmann tree was cut down in Rixensart on Wednesday morning. It was planted 32 years ago in front of a private home in Rixensart (Walloon Brabant).

21/11/2024

Europe News

French trade minister flags defensive trade tools for Trump presidency

As the 27 trade ministers gathered for the first time since Donald Trump's re-election, the use of defensive trade tools against the US could be an option in case of Trump's aggressive trade policy, according to French minister Sophie Primas.

21/11/2024

Europe News

How centrist party pact enables new ‘Venezuela majority’ 

Approval of Commissioners and recent votes in the European Parliament signal new power balance, as the centre-right European People's Party teams up with right wing forces, giving itself more choices for finding majorities.

21/11/2024

Tech News

Lawmakers seek Amazon visit, hearing before restoring lobby access

Amazon seeks to restore relations with the European Parliament after being denied access earlier in the year for failure to cooperate.

21/11/2024

Europe News

EU must keep 'urgency' of digital euro process, says ECB project lead

Evelien Witlox, project director for the digital euro at the European Central Bank, discusses how the proposal is progressing, how the currency would work in practice, and what the key concerns are at this stage.

21/11/2024

Tech News

Irish privacy watchdog awaiting clarity from EU on AI regulation

The incoming government will decide whether to make the Irish data protection authority also the national watchdog for the AI Act.

21/11/2024

Health news

MEPs strip Hungarian Commissioner of key health competencies

Commissioner-designate Olivér Várhelyi has been stripped of oversight over reproductive and sexual rights as well as health preparedness following an evaluation by EU lawmakers.

20/11/2024

Europe News

EU countries oppose MEPs’ attempts to re-open deforestation law

Member states close the door to further tweaks to the new deforestation rules pushed by unusual right-wing majority in the European Parliament.

20/11/2024

Tech News

Dutch ministry to check best practices for online content moderation

The investigation comes after video sharing application TikTok said it will close its Amsterdam office.

20/11/2024