Agrifood 28-03-2024
Politics 28-03-2024
Economy 28-03-2024
Editorialists can sometimes feel bad if they read columns they wrote a couple of years ago or even a couple of months ago. I start today's Brief with this disclaimer.
Belarus faced the first EU sanctions almost 30 years ago, however, it seems this was not enough for all the involved parties to build an effective information policy regarding the sanctions
Frustration with mainstream politics is fuelling the rise of Europe’s joke parties, which are likely to gain a few seats in the European Parliament in June.
A tight race for the EU Parliament’s third place continues, as the liberal Renew Europe group has now recovered the lead over far-right ID and nationalist-conservative ECR group, both lurking right behind, according to Europe Elect’s latest projection for Euractiv.
France should continue refusing to include renewable targets in its energy-climate plan, which is due to be submitted to the European Commission in June, the country's former Energy Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher said on Tuesday (26 March).
Despite deteriorating political relations between Armenia and Russia, bilateral trade has flourished, leaving Western partners wondering over Yerevan's approach to sanctions.
President Emmanuel Macron and counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday (27 March) celebrated the launch of Brazil's third French-designed submarine, which will help secure the country's immense coastline, dubbed the "Blue Amazon."
More than 4,600 asylum seekers have arrived in Britain on small boats so far in 2024, a record total for the first three months of the year and giving Prime Minister Rishi Sunak a fresh political headache.
Ireland said on Wednesday (27 March) it would intervene in South Africa's genocide case against Israel, in the strongest signal to date of Dublin's concern about Israeli operations in Gaza since 7 October.
Russia has no designs on any NATO country and will not attack Poland, the Baltic states or the Czech Republic but if the West supplies F-16 fighters to Ukraine then they will be shot down by Russian forces, President Vladimir Putin said late on Wednesday (27 March).
French multi-energy company TotalEnergies is withdrawing from oil and gas exploration in the potential Khan Asparuh field in northern Bulgarian waters of the Black Sea, an annual report by the project's other partner, Romania's OMV Petrom, quoted by Bulgarian Capital Weekly, reads.
Former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (Italia Viva) and the leader of +Europa party, Emma Bonino plan to run at the European election with a joint “United States of Europe” list.
Lawmakers in the French National Assembly on Wednesday backed a bill proposed by President Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance party to combat foreign interference by a large majority of 171 votes to 25.
The Czech government on Wednesday (27 March) sanctioned two people including pro-Russian Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk and the news website voiceofeurope.com for leading a pro-Russian influence operation in Europe, the Czech Foreign Ministry said.
Bavaria’s Minister-President Markus Söder broke with his centre-right party line and spoke out against EU tariffs on Chinese goods during a visit to China on Wednesday, where he also criticised the French.
Poland’s public debt is set to rise to almost 80% of the country’s GDP by 2034, according to the European Commission’s latest report – an assessment economist Jakub Sawulki finds pessimistic, although he warns that current trends do point to skyrocketing public debt.
The corporate exodus from Russia since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine has cost foreign companies more than $107 billion in writedowns and lost revenue, a Reuters analysis of company filings and statements showed.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday (27 March) that it was "extremely hard to believe" that Islamic State would have had the capacity to launch an attack on a Moscow concert hall last Friday that killed at least 143 people.
Europe has ample new technologies to improve energy efficiency and save CO2, but getting those technologies connected and used efficiently is problematic, said Milenko Tošić, director of innovation at VizLore Labs Foundation.
As uncertainty mounts on the adoption of the Nature Restoration Law (NRL), biodiversity experts sound the alarm against further resistance to reversing decades of ecosystem degradation.
A Human-Animal Bond Report was launched at the EU Companion Animals Stakeholder Summit on 20 March in Brussels, advocating advancements in companion animal policy to improve human and animal health and wellbeing.
MEP Marina Kaljurand (S&D) has questioned whether the European Commission should include a commissioner dedicated to animals, despite the proven benefits of pet ownership.
Our democracies need a sustainable media sector, Věra Jourová, European Commission Vice-President for Values and Transparency, told participants of the recent Stars4Media conference in Brussels.
The European Central Bank’s hesitation to cut rates before further signs of slowing wage growth reflects a “hawkish bias” that could lead to weak growth becoming entrenched across the eurozone economy, the head of Bruegel think tank warned on Wednesday (27 March).