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Slovak Environment Minister rejects EU directive on household fossil fuel charges
Slovakia has failed to include charges for emissions from heating and road transport in its latest amendment to its Emissions Trading Act, despite an EU directive requiring member states to do so by 25 September, with Environment Minister Tomáš Taraba (SNS) urging Brussels to revise the directive instead.
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Unidentified object from Belarus lands in Poland
An unidentified object with Cyrillic writing initially thought to be a balloon, fell a few metres from the Belarusian border in another incident of this kind in recent months.
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Portfolio of Czech commissioner-designate tipped to focus on trade
Czech commissioner-designate Jozef Síkela will be proposed to take up an economic portfolio with a focus on trade, Czech European Affairs Minister Martin Dvořák (STAN, EPP) said in the Czech Television debate on Sunday.
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How the Draghi report could affect future EU-US relations
The Italian technocrat’s policy proposals, set to be released on Monday (9 September), are likely to profoundly shape EU-US relations over the coming years.
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Greek leftist opposition leader ousted as Syriza enters uncharted waters
A censure motion pushed forward by several members of leftist main opposition Syriza party in Greece was approved on Sunday and overthrew the 36-year-old Stefanos Kasselakis from the leadership of the party.
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The EUDR needs corrective action to work [Promoted content] [Advocacy Lab Content]
The EU Deforestation Regulation in its current form will result in perverse outcomes that harm the world’s poorest farmers – but they can be avoided, writes Eddy Martono.
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Zelenskyy in Italy: Peace plan will be ‘ready in November’
Ukraine will have its peace plan ready in November, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said as he met with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni over the weekend.
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Le Pen’s far-right party to judge Barnier on performance
French far-right party Rassemblement National (RN) has vowed not to oppose President Emmanuel Macron's pick for prime minister, said party figurehead Marine Le Pen and party leader Jordan Bardella over the weekend, adding that Michel Barnier would instead be judged on his performance.
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Far-right AfD cheers Scholz’s call for peace summit with Russia
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for a peace conference with Russia on Sunday, a move the far-right AfD saw as a sign the government was bowing to its pressure.
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Pro-nuclear lobby, EPP pressuring von der Leyen to drop Ribera – media reports
The pro-nuclear lobby in Brussels and the EPP are reportedly pressuring European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen not to appoint Spanish Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera as her new climate commissioner, with speculations in Madrid now suggesting Ribera will instead be presented with the powerful competition portfolio.
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Greece to tax cruise ship arrivals to protect popular islands from overtourism
Greece plans to impose a 20-euro levy on cruise ship visitors to the islands of Santorini and Mykonos during the peak summer season, in a bid to avert overtourism, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday (8 September).
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Spanish PM Sánchez in China to meet Xi, boost trade
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is in China's capital Monday (9 September) for talks with top officials including President Xi Jinping, keen to boost economic ties despite a trade standoff between Beijing and the EU.
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The trials of the next Enlargement Commissioner
Welcome to Euractiv’s Global Europe Brief, your weekly update on the EU from a global perspective. You can subscribe to receive our newsletter here. Dear readers, In today’s edition: a closer look at what lies ahead for the European Commission’s next...
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By pressing onward with elections in battlefield Kursk region, Kremlin seeks to show everything is ‘business as usual’
The Kremlin refuses to cancel next month’s elections in the Kursk border region despite Ukraine’s ongoing offensive there, deeming it “only a local crisis” from a military perspective, said three Russian officials familiar with the election preparations.
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Venezuela opposition candidate González leaves for Spain as diplomatic tensions rise
Venezuela's former presidential opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia has left for Spain in the wake of the South American country's contested election, Venezuelan and Spanish officials said on Saturday night (7 September).
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Meloni pledges support for Ukraine after meeting with Zelenskyy
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni pledged unwavering support for Ukraine after a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday (7 September), in which they discussed Kyiv's plans to end the war with Russia and reconstruction efforts.
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Ireland and UK to ‘reset’ relations as Starmer visits Dublin
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Saturday (7 September) made the first visit by a British leader to Ireland in five years, vowing to "reset" damaged post-Brexit relations between the neighbouring nations.
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Over 100,000 protest in France against new prime minister
More than 100,000 left-wing demonstrators rallied across France on Saturday (7 September) to protest against the nomination of the centre-right Michel Barnier as prime minister and denounce President Emmanuel Macron's "power grab".
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Ukrainians assail Russian-Canadian war film at Venice fest
Ukrainian politicians and cultural figures on Friday (6 September) slammed a screening of a Russian-Canadian filmmaker's war documentary as propaganda, a claim the director denied.
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Italian minister quits over ex-lover’s consultancy controversy
Italian Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano quit on Friday (6 September) after controversy over a consultancy role for his former mistress that had become an embarrassment for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government.
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