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Stop the "vegetarian meat" and to the feints "short supply chains": in the EU, steaks and chops only come from animals

Stop the "vegetarian meat" and to the feints "short supply chains": in the EU, steaks and chops only come from animals

Strengthen farmers’ negotiating power, stabilize their incomes and make relationships along the food supply chain more transparent. This is the aim of the revision of the regulatory framework known by the acronym CMO (common market organisation), under discussion in Brussels. The European Parliament and the EU Council have reached an agreement on new provisions that introduce mandatory written contracts between ...

Europe's tools to stop rising energy prices (spoiler: failures)

Europe’s tools to stop rising energy prices (spoiler: failures)

From 100 to 2 boats per day. In the Strait of Hormuz, that sea corridor where Oman and Iran are only 3.7 kilometers apart at their minimum point, the traffic of ships on which approximately 20% of the hydrocarbons consumed on the planet travels has almost disappeared. It is the effect of the new war in the Middle East, in ...

"More resources and more rights for a Europe close to the people"

"More resources and more rights for a Europe close to the people"

Sixteen round tables, over 200 participants and more than 160 Italian stakeholders including businesses, unions and associations: this is the summary of the evening “A Whole Other Europe”, organized in Brussels by the delegation of the Democratic Party to the European Parliament as a moment of discussion between the Italian system and those who represent the country in the EU ...

How technological neutrality can save the Italian (and European) car

How technological neutrality can save the Italian (and European) car

Last December, the European Commission presented a broad package of measures to accompany the automotive sector in the transition towards clean mobility, the Automotive Package. In the provision he accepted the requests of the industry and some countries, including Italy, to lower ambitions and grant greater flexibility to help the sector prepare for the transition to electric in 2025. From ...

The EU Parliament against the death penalty in Israel for Palestinians accused of terrorism

The EU Parliament against the death penalty in Israel for Palestinians accused of terrorism

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 ...

Will sex without consent be considered rape across Europe?

Will sex without consent be considered rape across Europe?

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 ...

SMEs on the rise: a new category arrives to avoid the regulatory 'leap into the void'

SMEs on the rise: a new category arrives to avoid the regulatory ‘leap into the void’

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 ...

The changes to the EU climate law and the new enlargement package

What is the ETS (which the Meloni government doesn’t like) and what does our bills have to do with it?

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 ...

When the State descends into the fields to free laborers from exploitation

When the State descends into the fields to free laborers from exploitation

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 ...

Bureaucratic constraints and staff shortages: all the limits that slow down the spending of EU funds

Bureaucratic constraints and staff shortages: all the limits that slow down the spending of EU funds

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 ...