A press conference was held in the European Parliament on the introduction by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and members of his right-wing coalition of a bill promoting the death penalty against Palestinian prisoners convicted of terrorism. It is a bill that would formalize executions within a legal framework applicable only to Palestinians who kill Israelis, but which would ...
In the European Union there is no single definition of rape and sexual violence. Each member state has its own and punishes this crime differently. But the European Parliament is insistently asking the Commission to propose a regulation that introduces a common definition of rape based on the absence of “freely given, informed and revocable” consent, overcoming national rules still ...
For decades, European law has divided businesses into two large blocks: on the one hand, small and medium-sized enterprises, SMEs, and on the other, large companies. Legally the limit is set at 249 employees. Above that threshold, a company was automatically classified as a large enterprise and found itself exposed to a much more onerous set of regulatory obligations, regardless ...
As Brussels accelerates towards climate neutrality, the European Emission Trading System (known as ETS) is under attack from carbon-intensive industries and some European governments, such as Italy. Established in 2005 as a fundamental tool of the European climate strategy for reducing emissions, the ETS is facing one of the most critical moments since its birth. What is the ETS, the ...
In the ghettos of Foggia, among the orange plantations of the Gioia Tauro plain, in the countryside of Campania and Basilicata, every year thousands of foreign workers wake up before dawn. A corporal, a ramshackle van, a day in the fields for a handful of euros await them. Gangmastering, the system of illicit intermediation of agricultural work, is one of ...
On the one hand, the official declarations of governments celebrating the exceeding of spending targets and the simplification of procedures. On the other hand, the complaints of small local administrations and businesses denouncing the lack of staff and the unsustainability of the new procedural constraints. But in short, Are European cohesion funds really accessible to those who work in the ...
The European Union wants to fight cross-border unfair trading practices in the agricultural and food supply chain. These are increasingly widespread practices in a market that has increasingly integrated supply chains and in which approximately 20 percent of the agricultural and food products consumed in a member state come from another country in the Union. The green light The European ...
The European Union has updated its Climate Regulation by setting a new binding target of 90% reduction in net emissions by 2040, opening up to the limited use of international carbon credits from 2036, postponing the new emissions market for buildings and transport (ETS2) to 2028 and strengthening the mechanisms for periodic review of the targets. The changes, definitively approved ...
Strasbourg – With the European Parliament’s definitive approval of the new rules on countries of origin and safe third countries, the Union makes a turning point in the management of migration and effectively opens the way to the so-called “Albania model”. For the first time the European Union will have a common list of countries of origin considered safe. This ...
The European Parliament has approved some measures designed to protect the Union’s agriculture from possible negative effects due to the liberalization of trade with Mercosur. The new regulation creates a “bilateral safeguard clause”, a parachute that will allow the Union to temporarily suspend the tariff advantages granted to Mercosur countries on imports of certain agricultural products such as beef, pork ...