Former members of the European Parliament might be banned from lobbying in Brussels and Strasbourg for six months after leaving workplace, beneath plans endorsed by political leaders at a closed-door assembly Wednesday evening. Roberta Metsola, the center-right Maltese Parliament chief, floated an preliminary 14-point record of reforms to beef up …
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Press play to take heed to this text Voiced by synthetic intelligence. Going through re-election in Could or June, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is keenly conscious that his political fortunes depend upon a fast and decisive response to Monday’s earthquake and its aftershocks that devastated cities in southern Turkey and killed hundreds. …
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by Thalif Deen (united nations) Tuesday, February 07, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Feb 07 (IPS) – Hinting at “Western hypocrisy”, a senior UN official as soon as instructed a gaggle of reporters, maybe half-jokingly: “When you go on one of those sight-seeing tours in Europe, they will show you …
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With a reliance on the U.S. for as much as 40 p.c of our human blood plasma wants, Europe faces a serious problem: we merely don’t acquire sufficient plasma. Some 300,000 uncommon illness sufferers rely upon plasma-derived medicinal merchandise (PDMPs) to deal with a variety of great and life-threating circumstances, …
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Paul Taylor is a contributing editor at POLITICO. PARIS — Migration is again on the European Union agenda, however depressingly little has modified for the reason that final time member international locations locked horns on the problem that has defied any and all effort to form a typical coverage. EU …
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Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. “A vulgar low Irishman, [who] sings a good song, drinks anyone’s brandy and water, and smokes as many cigars as a Jolly Good Fellow. He is just the sort of chap to get information, particularly out of youngsters.” These had been the …
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The Memorandum of Understanding on Migration has been renewed regardless of mounting proof of crimes towards humanity. A controversial migration settlement between Italy and Libya has been mechanically renewed for 3 years amid warnings by humanitarian organisations that this would possibly make Rome and the European Union complicit in crimes …
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Press play to take heed to this text Voiced by synthetic intelligence. Once you’re feeling beneath the climate, the very last thing you need to do is trek from pharmacy to pharmacy trying to find primary medicines like cough syrup and antibiotics. But many individuals throughout Europe — confronted with …
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Docs and pharmacists have referred to as on the European Fee to ship stronger laws to stop future drug shortages after the European Medicines Company (EMA) declined to declare the present extreme restrictions on antibiotics a “major event.” Sufferers all through Europe have been struggling to source frequent antibiotics, particularly …
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Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. The U.N. is querying the presidency of this year’s COP28 climate talks over its ties to state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), a person with knowledge of the matter told POLITICO. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) recently appointed ADNOC’s …
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The lawyers of Eva Kaili on Thursday denounced inhumane detention conditions they likened to “torture.” The former European Parliament vice president has been in jail for more than a month after being arrested and charged in a sprawling probe into whether foreign countries, including Qatar and Morocco, illegally influenced the Parliament’s work. …
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This article is part of POLITICO’s Global Policy Lab: Living Cities, a collaborative journalism project exploring the future of cities. Chapter 3 of the project is presented by Holcim. OLBIA, Italy — After a deadly flood tore through the city of Olbia, displacing thousands and killing nine, local politicians vowed such a …
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