EU environment ministers agreed on the bloc’s negotiating position ahead of the COP 29 United Nations climate summit in Azerbaijan next month, a council statement said.
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Italy is taking a first group of migrants to Albania aboard a navy ship, a source close to the matter told Reuters on Monday, activating a controversial plan to process thousands of asylum-seekers abroad.
Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis will participate in the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union in Luxembourg on Monday.
The European Commission highlighted in its annual report that the implementation of Greece’s Recovery and Resilience Plan is progressing smoothly, though “increased efforts” are needed for timely execution.
If the European Union is to survive it will have to concentrate all its energies to this end. This means that member-states will have to give up a larger part of their sovereignty to reinforce the whole.
Even if the European Central Bank reduces interest rates twice in 2024, they will still not drop below 3%, Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras told the Financial Times in an interview published on Wednesday.
The Letta and Draghi reports serve as a “wake-up call” for the EU, Greek Economy and Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis said in Luxembourg on Tuesday, where he took part in the Eurogroup and ECOFIN meetings.
Europe’s top human rights court has ruled that Cyprus violated the right of two Syrian nationals to seek asylum in the island nation after keeping them, and more than two dozen other people, aboard a boat at sea for two days before sending them back to Lebanon.
An independent body, supported by Meta Platforms’ Oversight Board Trust, has a certification from the media regulator in Ireland to resolve appeals against policy violation decisions of social media companies in the European Union.
The case of Lasithi on the island of Crete, where over 30 hectares of subsidized land can be leased for just €300 annually, is one example of the sort of suspicions raised regarding shady dealings when it comes to EU funding.
The European Commission obtained the necessary support in a vote to impose duties of up to 45% on imported electric vehicles made in China, as part of the EU’s highest-profile probe into alleged Chinese subsidies that has provoked threats of retaliation from Beijing.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) had ruled Friday that gender and nationality alone were sufficient for a country to grant asylum to women from Afghanistan, where the ruling Taliban have sharply curtailed women’s rights.
Greece has reportedly abstained from a vote in the European Union on Friday about blocking the European Commission’s plans to impose high tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.
New Democracy MEP Manolis Kefalogiannis was on Thursday elected chair of the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC).
The European Commission has urged Greece to properly transpose European Union regulations regarding the presumption of innocence and the right to be present at trial.
The European Commission sued Spain, Cyprus, Poland and Portugal for failing to implement rules aimed at ensuring a global minimum level of taxation for multinational companies, it said on Thursday.
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