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European airlines warn EU Digital COVID Certificate will cause chaos

The airline industry has warned of long queues at airports if EU countries don't have a coordinated approach.

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The EU is planning new safety rules for the workplace - wherever it is

Nearly 40 per cent of employees worked at home during the pandemic. The EU is now looking to protect worker health and safety - wherever the office is.

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Belarus cuts cooperation on migration with EU over sanctions

The EU on Thursday slapped new bruising economic sanctions on Belarus over last month's diversion of a passenger jet to arrest a dissident journalist.

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Europe's week: Hungary's LGBT law dominates agenda

Last week, the Hungarian parliament passed a new law that bans the portrayal of homosexuality and sex reassignment in school education material and TV programmes addressed to people under 18 years of age.

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MEPs give final approval to EU's 2050 climate neutrality target

The new EU Climate Law increases the EU’s 2030 emissions reductions target from 40% to at least 55%.

Green News

Does the EU need a green prosecutor to solve environmental crime?

This MEP is calling for a dedicated EU body tasked with identifying, investigating, and prosecuting environmental crime across Europe.

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17 EU leaders defend LGBT rights amid row over new Hungarian law

"We must continue fighting against discrimination towards the LGBT community, reaffirming our defence of their fundamental rights," the leaders say.

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Fishing flotilla sails to Irish parliament in protest of quotas

A flotilla of around 70 fishing boats moor on Dublin’s river Liffey, outside the city’s convention centre where parliament is currently sitting.

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Brexit 5 years on: UK exit 'shifted EU power balance to big nations'

Brexit forced the EU to reconsider how it is made up and the balance of power. Five years on, Brussels watchers spoke to Euronews about their views on the UK's exit.

World

Five years on, how has Brexit changed Europe?

"There was worry that this was the beginning of the end, or that the UK departure would sow division in Europe. In fact, the EU has been very united, very consistent in how it's handled Brexit," says Brigid Laffan, Director of the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute.

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Europe should 'get its act together' on Russia: Russian ambassador

Vladimir Chizhov, Russia's Ambassador to the EU, thinks the bloc should not be guided "by certain slogans or terms carved in stone" because relations with Russia are evolving.

United Kingdom

Post-Brexit rights: EU citizens given 28 days to apply to stay in UK

EU nationals who have not applied for settled status in the UK by the June 30 deadline will be given a formal 28-day warning to do so or risk losing their right to live, work and access free healthcare in the country.

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Brexit 5 years on: Europe 'is punishing the UK' for leaving EU: Poll

Europeans think that their leaders and Brussels are making Britain's divorce from the EU more difficult than it needs to be.

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Brexit 5 years on: 'We would have you back,' says Europe, in new poll

Most respondents in France, Germany, Italy and Spain have a message for the UK: We want EU back, we want EU back for good.

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COVID-19 gave terrorists new opportunities, Europol says

Jihadist terrorism remains the biggest threat to the EU, Europol found, also flagging that right-wing extremists are increasingly younger.

Europe News

Brussels greenlights Italy's €191.5 billion COVID-19 recovery plan

Italy will receive the largest share of the EU's €750 billion coronavirus recovery package.

United Kingdom

Next DUP chief Jeffrey Donaldson demands action on N Ireland protocol

The Westminster MP is the only leadership candidate in the latest twist in the Northern Ireland unionist party's internal power struggle.

World News

Founding father of EU Schuman moves ahead on sainthood path

Robert Schuman, an architect of European integration, has moved ahead on the Catholic church's path toward possible sainthood, the Vatican said.

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Is big tech out of control? Cédric O says more regulation is needed

France's digital economy minister Cédric O said big tech companies were forming an "oligopoly" that was bad for democracy.

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Pardons are 'only a first step' to a deal with Spain: Catalan leader

Pere Aragonès, the recently-elected president of Catalonia, tells Euronews that his government is ready to open a new chapter with Madrid and Brussels.

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