Nutrition Italy to challenge Nutri-Score with constitution Giorgia Meloni’s party is proposing a tweak in the country's constitution that would complicate adoption of the colour-coded front-of-packet labelling in Italy - and Europe. 03/05/2024
Economy New EU fiscal rules in force, what are the next steps? After being suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic and a long political battle within the euro area, the revised economic governance framework aims to ensure a better balance between debt reduction and investments and reforms across the EU. 02/05/2024
Green News Green leader sees ‘huge danger’ to climate policy as elections loom A trio of leading Green MEPs have presented a proposal for a Green Industrial Deal supported by a trillion-euro EU fund and preferential interest rates from the European Central Bank, while warning a swing to the right in June could see five years of climate legislation begin to unravel. 02/05/2024
Europe News Scandal, bullying and iconoclasm: How MEPs lost their political way From romance to football, alleged corruption to insulting the boss: MEPs can lose their political moorings in a variety of ways. By the close of this European Parliament, 50 MEPs were without groups – how did they get there? 01/05/2024
Green News More than 70% of key resources imperilled by climate - report Global production of crucial raw materials may be at risk of disruption due to climate change and businesses need to find adaptation solutions in order to timely deliver clean technologies for the green transition. 30/04/2024
Green News How Europe’s energy crisis is feeding the election campaign The transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy was already a central pillar of the European Green Deal before a belligerent Moscow triggered an energy crisis; now the question of how best to ensure secure, affordable energy is dividing political camps as EU citizens head to the polls in June. 30/04/2024
Europe News Facebook and Instagram probed over disinformation handling The European Commission says the platforms’ tools to protect the EU elections are not sufficient. 30/04/2024
Europe News Group leaders dodge farming bullets at election debate Candidates were elusive on agriculture flash points and offered no food policy vision for the next five years. 30/04/2024
Green News Bulgaria and Poland to increase climate adaptation and just transition Bulgaria and Poland's energy and climate plans still need to fill some gaps. 29/04/2024
Business Over 90% of wealthiest bankers are men, EU figures show The number of banking millionaires is on the rise, according to the European Banking Authority – but women don’t seem to be benefiting. 29/04/2024
Europe News Brussels’ trillion-euro budget may need expanding, Commissioner says EU resources are under strain, given the need to invest in defence, climate change and a possible expansion to Ukraine. 29/04/2024
Tech News Austrian NGO files privacy complaint over ChatGPT OpenAI accused of being unable to correct to false information used by its popular chatbot. 29/04/2024
Europe News Green claims wrangling, Newsletter This week's key events presented by senior energy and environment reporter Robert Hodgson 29/04/2024
The Big Question Energy, regulation and openness: How to make the EU competitive again “None of those goals will be achievable if we don't get back into a growth mode in Europe,” says Business Europe President, Fredrik Persson 29/04/2024
Tech News Can social media swing the EU election? Compared to the 2019 election more EU platform rules are in place. 28/04/2024
Green News ROUNDUP: Key energy and environment votes in parliament MEPs waved through a raft of energy and environment files in Strasbourg this week during the last European Parliament plenary session before elections in June. 26/04/2024
Tech News Fashion website Shein now faces stricter rules under EU platform law The retailer has four months to comply with the tough requirements of the Digital Services Act, the European Commission said today. 26/04/2024
Europe Decoded Oligarch sanction setbacks are no big deal, Brussels says A string of EU court judgements overruling asset freezes on Russian businessmen doesn't upend the overall strategy. 26/04/2024
Green News MEPs agree to give European clean tech manufacturing a boost New rules are designed to bring ‘clean tech sovereignty’ to the bloc in face of competition from China and the US. 25/04/2024
Europe News Record approval of farming reform raises legal, climate concerns Faced with the roar of protesting farmers, the European Parliament has stripped down agricultural rules in record time – but some worry MEPs have been too hasty. 25/04/2024
Tech News Facebook not allowed to use public data for targeted ads; ECJ opinion EU data protection rules don't allow the company to use personal data for an unlimited period of time, the Advocate General said. 25/04/2024
Green News Rapid militarisation jeopardising climate, claim NGOs Impact of conflict-related carbon emissions should be accounted for and more data from military operations is needed, according to NGOs and lawmakers. 25/04/2024
Green News Parliament reinforces support for GMO deregulation Backers of a new generation of genetically modified crops have urged governments to support the new technology after the EUropean Parliament restated its support. 24/04/2024
Europe News Turkish kebabs turn to Europe for protected status Türkiye has filed an application to grant its best-known foodstuff the same EU protection as Neapolitan pizza and Spanish jamon serrano. 24/04/2024
Green News MEPs approve law to reduce growing stream of packaging waste The European Parliament has adopted new binding targets for reuse, collection and recycling of packaging, and outright bans on a range of disposable plastic wrappers, miniature bottles and bags deemed unnecessary, but NGOs have raised another 'greenwashing' alarm. 24/04/2024
Tech News TikTok suspends rewards in Lite app in the wake of EU probe The video-sharing platform is subject to two Commission investigations under the DSA. 24/04/2024