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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.
Earth 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.
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?
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Earth 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.
Earth 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.
