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Commission likely to push for recycled PET in food packaging despite concerns
The European Commission will soon decide whether to allow the use of recycled plastics in food packaging despite some suggesting this could endanger consumer health.
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EU ministers reach broad consensus on batteries regulation
EU environment ministers adopted on Thursday (17 March) a general approach for the EU batteries regulation, centred on France's compromise proposal, which had drawn all-around praise for being "balanced" and "ambitious". The Council and the Parliament will now negotiate to agree on the final draft.
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Disinterest from politicians clouds EUs deliberative democracy experiment
While the debate was more focussed and better organised than before, participants said disinterest from politicians clouded the latest panel of the conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) event in Strasbourg at the weekend. CoFoE is the first EU deliberative …
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CoFoE: Participants ask for increased EU intervention in Ukrainian war
Participants from the Conference on the Future of Europe met in Strasbourg to speak in front of the conference's plenary, where Ukrainian activists and MPs urged for more drastic EU intervention in Ukraine, including the implementation of a no-fly zone.
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Let’s place citizens at the centre of Europe
The Conference on the Future of Europe placed citizens at the centre of reform in the European Union. This should be a concrete and tangible outcome of the Conference. Let us democratise our Union by putting citizens’ participation at the core of European decision making, writes a group of ten MEPs.
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MEPs support making full use of cohesion policy to abolish health inequalities
The European Parliament has approved an own-initiative report suggesting that cohesion policy funds could be one of the ways to reduce health inequalities, which remain huge across the EU.
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Biggest EU parties strike compromise to create pan-European MPs
The biggest EU party families have agreed on a compromise to push for a change of EU electoral law to allow for so-called pan-European members of the European Parliament, which could further European integration if successful.
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EP’s Metsola convenes emergency state parliament session
Amid the ongoing war in Ukraine, the European Parliament President Roberta Metsola (EPP) convened a meeting of national parliament speakers to coordinate the European response, telling them that “Kyiv is under siege and so is democracy”.
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European Parliament VP Šimečka: Doors for Ukraine’s EU accession must remain open
As Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to destroy the current security order in Europe, solidarity and unity remain our most potent weapons, but we cannot leave Ukraine to Russia and shut the doors for its EU accession, said Vice-President of European Parliament, Michal Šimečka
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MEPs call for ‘outdated’ EU toy safety directive to be updated
EU lawmakers have approved, by a large majority, a report to update the EU's Toy Safety Directive, which they say no longer meets the necessary standards. EURACTIV France reports.
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MEPs divided over alcohol consumption in fight against cancer
An EU report on beating cancer was adopted by a large majority of MEPs on Wednesday (16 February), after conservatives' amendments loosened up zero-alcohol recommendations. EURACTIV France reports.
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Bulgarian MEP gives Nazi salute in European Parliament
A Bulgarian nationalist MEP gave a Nazi salute in the plenary chamber of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday (16 February), sparking outrage after he spoke during a debate on the rule of law in Poland and Hungary.
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European Parliament resolution following Kazakhstan’s ‘tragic January’ is disappointing
It was deeply disappointing that the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the tragic events in Kazakhstan in the first days of January, which did not reflect the real situation on the ground, writes Erzhan Kazykhan.
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Raising interest rates won’t change energy prices, says ECB chief
Talking to EU lawmakers on Monday (8 February), European Central Bank (ECB) president Christine Lagarde reacted to criticism from conservative politicians who blamed ECB policy for the inflation currently biting into Europeans' purchasing power.
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France’s Green MEPs pledge to change Parliament’s position on EU taxonomy
The Greens in the European Parliament are trying to mobilise other parliamentarians to reject the Commission's delegated act on the green taxonomy that gives nuclear and gas a "green" label. EURACTIV France reports.
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Sustainability-linked bonuses may soon be a thing in EU companies
The European Commission could adopt a text within the next two weeks to link environmental and human impacts to companies' distribution of bonuses. EURACTIV France reports.
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Twenty people dominate corruption in Bulgaria, PM tells MEPs
At a closed session of the European Parliament in Brussels on Thursday, new Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said twenty people led a deeply entrenched system of graft in the country. But he named only one of them.
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Lawmaker proposes raising EU green jet fuel target to 100% by 2050
A draft European Parliament report calls for greater ambition in the EU’s proposed green jet fuel law, including a higher percentage of mandatory sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for planes refuelling in the bloc.
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Macron’s French EU presidency presentation turns into a settling of scores
President Emmanuel Macron presented the programme of France's six-month EU Council presidency before very agitated MEPs in Strasbourg on Wednesday (19 January), but it quickly turned into a sparring match with the French opposition.
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Macron urges ‘frank’ EU dialogue with Russia, political solution for Ukraine
The European Union must hold a "frank dialogue" with Russia and seek a political solution to the tensions over Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron told the European Parliament on Wednesday (19 January).
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Health Brief: The House of (health) democracy
While MEPs are busy in Strasbourg with the mid-term renewal of high-level roles in the European Parliament, parties are asking themselves how to give health more room in parliamentary business.
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European Parliament elects first woman President in twenty years
Maltese MEP Roberta Metsola was elected on Tuesday (18 January) to lead the EU institution for the second half of its five year mandate after securing an overwhelming majority in the first ballot.
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Italy pays respect to EU parliament chief Sassoli ahead of state funeral
Italian politicians joined ordinary citizens on Thursday (13 January) to pay their respects to European Parliament President David Sassoli, who died this week and whose coffin was placed in Rome's town hall ahead of a state funeral.
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EU flags at half-mast after death of parliament speaker Sassoli
EU flags flew at half-mast for European Parliament speaker David Sassoli, who died Tuesday (11 January) aged 65, as tributes flowed in from leaders and officials from around the 27-nation bloc and beyond.