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Health news

Nestlé shareholders push for more healthy offerings fails

Shareholders called to increase the number of healthy foods in a resolution voted today (18 April) in the company's Annual General Meeting amid a scandal on high sugar baby foods.

18/04/2024

Healthcare

Letta report highlights need for stronger healthcare sector

Strengthening health resilience is one of the pillars of Enrico Letta’s report on the Single Market to be presented to EU leaders during the special European Council in Brussels today (18 April).

18/04/2024

Europe Decoded

If not Ursula, then who? Seven in the wings for Commission top job

The Commission chief post will be put up for grabs after the EU elections. Who might be the other options to Ursula von der Leyen?

18/04/2024

Europe News

How will the next European Parliament work differently?

New ‘super’ committees, more inquiry powers over Commissioners, and attempts to avoid apparently deserted meetings are novel features planned for the next Parliament.

18/04/2024

Europe News

EU leaders under pressure to bolster Ukraine’s struggling air defences

The EU’s 27 leaders face mounting pressure to step up efforts to protect Ukraine’s skies from Russian airstrikes, after President Zelenskyy took a jab at Western allies’ "flagging political will" over the weekend.

17/04/2024

Tech News

Paid ad-free platforms should not be default option, watchdogs say

Opinion comes after Meta introduced its consent or pay model last October.

17/04/2024

Green News

Use of harmful chemicals growing, agencies find

New joint-assessment puts the spotlight on chemical pollution while NGOs urge EU officials to tackle the issue in the upcoming mandate.

17/04/2024

Belgium

Call for release of Swedish prisoner on anniversary of Iran detention

Johan Floderus was arrested at Tehran airport in 2022, and has had limited family contact and consular access since being imprisoned.

17/04/2024

Green News

Critical raw materials: how the EU hopes to secure supplies

If Russia's war on Ukraine shocked Europe into realising the folly of its dependence on Moscow for gas suppplies, growing geopolitical uncertainty has forced the EU to consider where it sources the raw materials, from copper to rare earth metals, needed for the energy transition.

17/04/2024

Tech News

TikTok questioned over its Lite app launched in France and Spain

The European Commission opened a formal probe into the video sharing app under the DSA last February.

17/04/2024

Tech News

EU migrant pact ushering in 'deadly new era of digital surveillance'

The warning from a coalition of European digital rights groups comes after years-long deadlock was broken with the polarising new legislation.

17/04/2024

Belgium

Court allows nationalist gathering to proceed, organisers say

The first day of the NatCon meeting of hard-right European nationalists was disrupted when police moved in to try and shut it down.

17/04/2024

Culture news

And the LUX Audience Award goes to... 'The Teachers' Lounge'

German director Ilker Çatak was awarded the 2024 LUX European Audience Film during a ceremony at the EU Parliament.

16/04/2024

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WATCH: Brussels police move to shut down hard-right meeting

The National Conservatism Conference (NatCon) was set to welcome Brexit champion Nigel Farage and Hungary's Viktor Orban - authorities in Belgium had other ideas.

16/04/2024

Tech News

Swede Ellsberger elected new head of standards body ETSI

Former Ericsson, Huawei manager takes up his role this summer.

16/04/2024

Europe News

MEPs query fast-tracking farmer-friendly CAP reform

Some political groups appear unwilling to cede Parliament’s lawmaking prerogatives to fast-track eleventh-hour approval of major deregulation of the EU’s agricultural subsidies and soothe protesting farmers.

16/04/2024

Green News

Brussels picks fight over UK ban on sand eel fishing

The European Commission is demanding an explanation from the UK government over a biodiversity protection measure that bans the industrial fishing of sand eels in much of its territorial waters, a move which has upset Denmark, which holds the lion's share of the UK/EU post-Brexit quota.

16/04/2024

Green News

23 member states sign Solar Charter, vow to tackle unfair competition

Leaders pledge extended support with new European Solar Charter to back European EU photovoltaic manufacturing.

16/04/2024

Europe Decoded

Von der Leyen staffing turbulence plays into EU elections

A human resource crisis at the Commission comes ahead of a sensitive changing of the guard in Brussels.

16/04/2024

Europe News

Pieper quits, casting shade on von der Leyen appointment process

Markus Pieper won’t be starting work at the European Commission, after his recruitment drew censure from MEPs.

16/04/2024

Tech News

Online platforms' ad databases lack clarity as EU vote nears; study

Most companies do not provide enough details for researchers to understand paid influence.

16/04/2024

Europe News

Survey rates parties on Green Deal - from 'pro' to 'prehistoric'

As European elections loom, a survey has revealed the extent to which the flagship Green Deal agenda of the von der Leyen Commission has divided even the centre ground in EU politics.

15/04/2024

Economy

Leaders urged to impose progressive taxes for green transition

Mammoth sums needed to deliver EU’s green transition put prosperity at risk, claim NGOs and academics.

15/04/2024

Space

ESA prepares two satellites to create a man-made solar eclipse

ESA says the "Proba-3" mission will be the first to create an artificial eclipse in a bid to better understand solar weather.

15/04/2024

Europe News

Exclusive: Letta to call for European industrial strategy

The former Italian PM’s report, part of which has been seen by Euronews, calls for stronger rules to unify telecoms, energy and financial markets and a new European business code.

15/04/2024

Brussels, My Love?

Brussels, my love? Why legislating on asylum and migration is so hard

In this edition, we break down the nail-biting vote on the EU migration pact, hear how press freedom in Slovakia is under threat and ask how Ursula von der Leyen is handling the so-called Piepergate scandal.

13/04/2024