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The plan to produce antibiotics and vaccines in Europe, reducing dependence on China

The plan to produce antibiotics and vaccines in Europe, reducing dependence on China

The EU Parliament and Council have reached an agreement on the Critical Medicines Act (Cma), the regulation on critical medicines, which redefines the rules on how the EU produces, purchases and guarantees supplies of essential medicines. Among antibiotics, insulin, painkillers, vaccines and therapies for rare diseases, there are over 270 medicines considered strategic for European public health which will be ...

Energy, MEPs in favor of the tax on extra profits: "But we need EU autonomy"

Energy, MEPs in favor of the tax on extra profits: "But we need EU autonomy"

Between requests for greater energy autonomy, support for families and businesses and clashes over extra profits, the high price of energy thus returns to the center of European political debate, while tensions in the Middle East and fears linked to the consequences of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz continue to weigh on European energy markets. The European Commission ...

From Tuscany to Extremadura: how the provinces can save rural Europe

From Tuscany to Extremadura: how the provinces can save rural Europe

How to guarantee a future for European rural areas in a context marked by crises, economic transformations and demographic changes? This is one of the most urgent questions currently being discussed in Brussels and in the Union territories when it comes to local development. Despite the significant progress made in recent decades, rural depopulation remains a structural challenge for many ...

Between Iran and Syria, Europe still has to deal with the Middle East

Between Iran and Syria, Europe still has to deal with the Middle East

Next, the newsletter of Europa Today which every Monday morning tells you what will happen in the European week Top of the agenda Fragile balances – Despite the prospect of a possible end to hostilities between the United States and Iran – as faint as it is unstable – the 27 EU governments do not trust a rapid exit from ...

Peter Magyar swears in and takes Orban's place. The first words of the new Hungarian prime minister: "I will not reign but I will serve the country"

Peter Magyar swears in and takes Orban’s place. The first words of the new Hungarian prime minister: "I will not reign but I will serve the country"

Peter Magyar, leader of the pro-European centre-right Tisza party, has been sworn in as prime minister of Hungary, marking the official end of Viktor Orban’s 16 years in power. The investiture of Parliament The Budapest Parliament elected him during the inaugural session of the new legislature, born from the April elections won by a wide margin by his Tisza party. ...

Bocelli sings for Europe at the Campidoglio: follow the live broadcast

Bocelli sings for Europe at the Campidoglio: follow the live broadcast

Europe Day – “Lights of Europe” in Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome, on 8 May from 6.30 pm, thousands of young people are expected for a special evening in the presence of the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola. Institutional interventions are foreseen:Raffaele Fitto – EC Executive Vice PresidentAntonio Tajani – Vice President of the CouncilPina Picierno – Vice President ...

All AI programs that generate erotic deepfakes are banned

All AI programs that generate erotic deepfakes are banned

In Italy, the debate on the dangers of deepfakes has reignited after the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, reported that false photos were circulating online in which her face ended up on the body of a woman in underwear. Programs that generate photos like these will soon be banned across the EU. The EU Council and the European Parliament have reached ...

The pro-European government has fallen in Romania

The pro-European government has fallen in Romania

An unusual alliance puts an end to a pro-European political experiment. The Romanian parliament has cast a vote of no confidence in the government led by Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan, approving a motion of censure presented by the Social Democrats and the far-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (Aur) party, both in opposition. Now scenarios of political and geopolitical ...

Meloni lashes Europe: "Know how to anticipate crises, not just react"

Meloni lashes Europe: "Know how to anticipate crises, not just react"

Giorgia Meloni lashes Europe. Attending the European Political Community summit in Yerevan, Armenia, he called on the Union for greater cooperation and responsiveness. “My idea – he said – is that the European Union has demonstrated its ability to respond to emergencies, such as the pandemic and the crisis in Ukraine, now we must take a step further, move from ...

Stop combustion engines from 2035, can the ban be revoked? What's happening in the EU

Will citizens also have to pay ETS fees for polluting buildings and cars?

From 2028, a new carbon quota market will come into force in the European Union which will directly concern buildings and road transport: it is called Ets2 (Emissions Trading System 2). The new system, which runs alongside that of corporate emissions quotas, has raised fears of direct consequences for Europeans, some of whom fear that citizens will also have to ...