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[l] at 11/22/24 10:24am
Experts noted that the threat of so-called “secondary sanctions” would increase the pressure on Western companies to cut any remaining financial ties with the EU’s eastern neighbour.

[Category: Donald Trump, EU-Russia, European gas supply, Joe Biden, Sanctions, US elections, Vladimir Putin, war in Ukraine]

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[l] at 11/22/24 10:18am
Reynders welcomes the progress made towards the restoring of the rule of law in Poland.
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[l] at 11/22/24 9:20am
The regional conflict in Ukraine has acquired elements of a global character, says Putin.

[Category: The Brief]

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[l] at 11/22/24 8:00am
James Burt, Chair of the Value Added Medicines Sector Group at Medicines for Europe shares his vision how off-patent innovation can help sustainably address today's major public health needs such as antimicrobial resistance, cardiovascular disease or the burden on health systems.
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[l] at 11/22/24 7:24am
Europe’s farmers are facing a chronic 62% financing gap. Many young farmers cannot get business bank loans. If farming goes broke, the EU’s food security evaporates.

[Category: 2030 climate and energy targets, access to finance, agriculture, Common Agicultural Policy]

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[l] at 11/22/24 7:13am
“Benchmarking with the US helps us to understand why EU companies want to go to the US—and how they can stay in Europe.”

[Category: deregulation, energy prices, EU Industry, France, Michel Barnier, red tape]

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[l] at 11/22/24 6:59am
But it would continue to monitor business practices in the European tech sector.

[Category: Antitrust, Apple, competition]

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[l] at 11/22/24 6:21am
On 22 November in Budapest, the interior ministers of Bulgaria, Romania and Austria signed a declaration on the full accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the Schengen area.

[Category: Austria, Bulgaria, Hungarian presidency, Romania, Romanian elections, Schengen]

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[l] at 11/22/24 5:54am
Hungary performed 409 organ transplants last year. Experts think this number can increase with the help of the healthcare ecosystem, and tax incentives.

[Category: healthcare, Hungary, Organ Transplant]

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[l] at 11/22/24 4:51am
Orban called the ICC warrant "wrong" and assured Netanyahu could negotiate in Hungary "in adequate safety."

[Category: arrest warrant, Benjamin Netanyahu, Gaza, genocide, ICC, Israel, Israel and Palestine, Khan, Victor Orban]

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[l] at 11/22/24 4:00am
At €200bn, EU budget 2025 is 6% bigger than this year’s, meaning a €10bn increase. It responds to the needs of Europeans while being able to pay back for the post-pandemic economic recovery of the Union without cutting the key programmes.

[Category: EU budget 2025, EURI, European Commission, promoted, S&D]

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[l] at 11/22/24 3:56am
When it comes to the Franco-German relationship, Michel Barnier is ready to provide some couple therapy advice: stop being exclusive and start opening up to new partners.

[Category: Emmanuel Macron, Franco-German tandem, Ménage à trois, Michel Barnier, Olaf Scholz]

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[l] at 11/22/24 3:29am
This procedure is “distinct from the one that gave rise to a search in France at the end of June”.

[Category: corruption, defence, France, Thalès, United Kingdom]

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[l] at 11/22/24 1:16am
Once in office, Donald Trump would have the power to remove the sanctions, which were imposed under an executive order by Joe Biden.

[Category: Banks, Donald Trump, gazprom, Janet Yellen, Joe Biden, Russian gas, Russian invasion, United States, US sanctions]

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[l] at 11/22/24 12:59am
If Donald Trump follows through on a promise to lower the US corporate tax rate from 21% to Ireland's rate of 15%, fears are growing that the tech firms will pack up and head home.

[Category: Apple, corporate tax, Donald Trump, Google, Ireland, Irish elections, Meta, United States]

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[l] at 11/22/24 12:01am
The move leaves the ruling SPD with Germany's most unpopular chancellor as their candidate at a time when the party is already trailing in third place behind the opposition conservatives and the far-right.

[Category: AfD, Boris Pistorius, CDU, Friedrich Merz, German elections 2025, Olaf Scholz]

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[l] at 11/21/24 11:46pm
George Simion dreams of restoring Romania's pre-World War Two borders, which include areas now in Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine and has been declared persona non grata in the latter two.

[Category: Bulgaria, far right, George Simion, Hungary, Marcel Ciolacu, Moldova, Romania elections, territorial claims, Viktor Orbán]

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[l] at 11/21/24 11:39pm
Draft rules proposed by the European Commission propose postponing until 1 July 2028 a decision on whether nuclear energy-derived hydrogen can be eligible for the 'low-carbon' label.

[Category: Delegated act low carbon hydrogen, H2, hydrogen, low carbon hydrogen]

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[l] at 11/21/24 11:29pm
Overcoming Hungary's veto is not the only issue on the agenda.

[Category: Ammunition, defence, Russia, Ukraine]

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[l] at 11/21/24 11:15pm
Northvolt transformed in a matter of months from Europe's best shot at a homegrown electric-vehicle battery champion to a company struggling to stay afloat.

[Category: China, electric batteries, electric vehicles, Scania, Sweden, Volkswagen]

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[l] at 11/21/24 11:12pm
In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Slovakia's Robert Fico backing Serbia over Kosovo, a Polish MEP urging Trump to back Poland's World War II reparations demands from Germany, and so much more. 

[Category: The Capitals]

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