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Data governance: Parliament approves new rules boosting intra-EU data sharing
On Wednesday, MEPs backed new legislation to increase the availability of data for start-ups and businesses to stimulate innovation.
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Data governance: Parliament approves new rules boosting intra-EU data sharing
Europe
Green Deal: Modernising EU industrial emissions rules
Today, the Commission is presenting proposals to update and modernise the Industrial Emissions Directive, key legislation to help prevent and control pollution.
Europe
Discriminating against a Scientologist in Germany is illegal, Federal Court said
Discriminating against a member of Scientology, Munich City, condemned by Germany's Federal Administrative Court
Europe
Question time with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
“Question time” is a question and answer session, where MEPs can ask the Commission about specific topical issues. During “question time” with Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday, MEPs took…
News
Pope: UN powerless in Ukraine war, where the logic of powerful prevails
By Vatican News staff reporter - logic of powerful - At the Wednesday General Audience, Pope Francis decried the war in Ukraine, and the powerlessness of the United Nations, noting…
Europe
What can the UN do? 5 of your questions answered
The current war in Ukraine, following the Russian invasion, has sparked all sorts of questions about the United Nations, particularly the role of the Security Council, the General Assembly and…
Europe
Ukraine’s President calls on Security Council to act for peace, or ‘dissolve’ itself
In an impassioned address to the Security Council that evoked the ashen destruction wrought during the Second World War, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday described in stark detail what he said…
ECHR
ECtHR: Belgium condemned for discriminating against Jehovah’s Witnesses
Belgium was condemned for discriminating against Jehovah's Witnesses. Failure to grant congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses exemption from property tax in the Brussels-Capital Region since 2018 was discriminatory ECHR 122 (2022)…
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Plant health summit aims to boost food security, safeguard human health
The world’s plant protection body met on Tuesday, aiming to set new plant health standards to both safeguard human wellbeing and preserve food security, according to the UN Food and…
Environment
UN climate report: It’s ‘now or never’ to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees
Reacting to the latest findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN Secretary-General insisted that unless governments everywhere reassess their energy policies, the world will be uninhabitable.