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New Critical Medicines Alliance starts work to address shortages

The European Commission and Belgian Presidency launched a Critical Medicines Alliance to identify weaknesses in supply of drugs in the EU, to better prevent and react to shortages.

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.

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Chinese Nuctech raided in foreign subsidies investigation

The EU Commission has used new powers to raid a Chinese surveillance company under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation – in a move that will further complicate ties with Beijing.

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EU launches probe into Chinese procurement of medical devices

The European Commission has launched a probe to examine how China favours its domestic companies in tenders for medical devices and weigh possible tit-for-tat measures.

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Commission carries out first raid under foreign subsidies regulation

The EU Executive has used new powers for the first time against an unnamed security equipment company.

Markets

Euroviews. Banking lobby's influence risks undermining digital euro's potential

Lawmakers as representatives of the people should resist the anticompetitive proposals of the banking sector and embrace a vision of the digital euro that serves the collective interests of Europeans, Dr Martijn van der Linden and Vicky Van Eyck write.

Health news

Commission approves superbug-busting antibiotic

The European Commission today (22 April) authorised a new antibiotic designed to counter anti-bacterial resistance, one of the biggest health threats the EU is currently facing.

Economy

Euroviews. Why EU trade policy and climate are running into the sand

As it finesses its strategy on trade, the EU needs to think how to moderate its sustainability agenda, which is proving too much for its trading partners to swallow, John Clarke writes.

Tech News

Chatbots providing 'unintentional' misinformation ahead of EU election

Google has introduced more restrictions after a new study showed Europe's most used AI chatbots were providing inaccurate election-related answers.

Italy

Italy's Mario Draghi calls for radical change in Europe

A petition calling for Italy's Prime Minister to take on the Commission's top job has garnered over 1,000 signatures.

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?

Europe News

Poland gets first payment of EU recovery funds: €6.3 billion

Poland has received €6.3 billion under the European Union's recovery fund, the first payment of its kind.

Europe Decoded

Von der Leyen: Too right for the left and too left for the right?

Ursula von der Leyen has presided over the most transformative years of the European Union in recent memory. But after weathering a string of extraordinary crises, her ideology might have gotten lost along the way.

My Europe Series

State of the Union: Decisions on climate, transparency and migration

In this edition of State of the Union, we focus on the climate ruling against Switzerland, fairness in the European election campaign and the new EU Migration and Asylum Pact

World

Ylva Johansson: Europe's new migration pact is 'a huge achievement'

Ylva Johansson, the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, discusses the EU's new polarising pact on migration and asylum in the Global Conversation.

Europe News

EU states must apply migration pact or face legal action: Commissioner

EU countries failing to implement the New Pact on Migration and Asylum, narrowly endorsed by the European Parliament on Wednesday, could face legal action, the bloc's home affairs chief has warned.

Spain

Spain to end golden visas for foreign real estate investors

Lawmakers hope closing the scheme will shut off an opening that critics say has allowed dirty money into the economy.

Europe News

Von der Leyen's pick for campaign manager raises eyebrows

Ursula von der Leyen has selected her current chief of staff to run her campaign ahead of the elections to the European Parliament.

Europe News

Exclusive: Von der Leyen cronyism row intensifies with NGO call

NGOs join lawmakers and senior commission officials in questioning the decision to hand a lucrative official role to a political ally.

Europe News

Von der Leyen's SME Envoy appointment disputed

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is embroiled in a row over favouritism, after appointing German MEP Markus Pieper as Envoy for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, a five-year post with a salary of nearly 17,000 euros a month.

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