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The EU against abuses in the agricultural supply chain: stop delays in payments and canceled orders

The EU against abuses in the agricultural supply chain: stop delays in payments and canceled orders

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 ...

We will have to reduce our emissions by 90% in 14 years: the new EU climate rules

We will have to reduce our emissions by 90% in 14 years: the new EU climate rules

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 ...

New rules on asylum and safe countries approved: "Breakthrough in migration management"

New rules on asylum and safe countries approved: "Breakthrough in migration management"

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 ...

Thus European farmers will be protected from unfair competition from Mercosur

Thus European farmers will be protected from unfair competition from Mercosur

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 ...

Why it will be easier to expel migrants in Europe: the 'Albania model' passes

Why it will be easier to expel migrants in Europe: the ‘Albania model’ passes

The European Parliament has approved new rules on the right to asylum which will allow member states to expel migrants more easily, also sending them to third countries, even if they do not have a direct link with those nations. This will pave the way for EU governments to establish so-called repatriation centres, following the model put in place by ...

European leaders taught competitiveness lessons by Draghi and Letta

European leaders taught competitiveness lessons by Draghi and Letta

Next, the newsletter of Europa Today which every Monday morning tells you what will happen in the European week Top of the agenda Retreat to the castle – Convened by the President of the European Council António Costa, the informal retreat of the heads of state and government of the 27 EU member countries will be held on Thursday 12 ...

European leaders taught competitiveness lessons by Draghi and Letta

European leaders taught competitiveness lessons by Draghi and Letta

Next, the newsletter of Europa Today which every Monday morning tells you what will happen in the European week Top of the agenda Retreat to the castle – Convened by the President of the European Council António Costa, the informal retreat of the heads of state and government of the 27 EU member countries will be held on Thursday 12 ...

From the loan to Ukraine to the US aims for Greenland: what will be discussed in Strasbourg

From the new rules on asylum to cutting emissions: what will be discussed in Strasbourg

Ahead of the next plenary session of the European Parliament, which will be held from 9 to 12 February in Strasbourg, MEPs from the different political groups present their priorities. They will be there – Flavio TosiForza Italia (EPP) – Paolo BorchiaLeague (Patriots for Europe) – Ruggero Razza FdI (Ecr) – Ignazio MarinoVerdi/Avs (Greens) – Pasquale TridicoM5S (The Left) Follow ...

Satellites, espionage and communications: hybrid warfare (also) comes from space

Satellites, espionage and communications: hybrid warfare (also) comes from space

It was July 2024 when some parcels sent by air via DHL courier caught fire in logistics centers in England and Germany. A few months earlier, two submarine telecommunications cables crossing the Baltic Sea had been cut by vessels. In the last few hours, hacker attacks have hit hotels in Cortina d’Ampezzo and Italian consulates abroad, on the eve of ...

Spain will also ban social media for children under 16

Spain will also ban social media for children under 16

The progressive Spanish government follows the position of some countries around the world and decides to ban the use of social media by children under 16. This is what was announced today by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai, anticipating five measures with which Madrid aims to deal with the abuse of large digital ...