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MEPs on the European Parliament's environment committee voted today (19 June) to ban air conditioners containing fluorinated gases by 2020, going further than the phase-down proposal put forward by the European Commission last year.
The gases – used in fridges, air conditioning systems and foams – have a potent global warming [...] Read more
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Itchy feet in the private offices of the European commissioners are getting itchier.
Perhaps it is just as well that the European Council introduced a permanent full-time president (current holder: Herman Van Rompuy), given what has been happening to the bunch of temps who used to preside over the EU's affairs.
The strike called by EU staff unions last Wednesday was not exactly a howling success.
Maybe the party really is over for the European Union.
NEWSDanish company is fined €93.8 million for breach of European Union anti-trust rules.
NEWSDecision would effectively remove Azerbaijan from the Eastern Partnership programme.
COMMENTA round-up of the international press on Wednesday, 19 June.
COMMENTWhile EU-Azeri co-operation on energy has flourished, Azerbaijan's human-rights record has deteriorated.
NEWSEconomic committee backs European Commission position.
NEWSEnvironmental campaigners say the CAP reform will not deliver what was promised.
COMMENTThat really is the question that the EU and G8 face, Oxfam and ActionAid argue.
COMMENTA round-up of the international press on Tuesday, 18 June.
NEWSMember states reach common approach on overhaul of securities-trading rules.
NEWSTalks on transatlantic free-trade agreement to start in July.
NEWSNational employment services to work together.
NEWSCoalition partners have criticised prime minister's decision to close ERT.
NEWSPrime Minister Petr Necas resigns after arrests of his aides in a wide-reaching police investigation.
COMMENTA round-up of the international press on Monday, 17 June.
COMMENTEurope's half-solution on Hizbullah is no solution at all.
NEWSEU agrees on mandate for US trade talks after day-long battle over cultural safeguards.
NEWSMore details to be given on the results generated, information used and the safeguards in place
NEWSParliament's environment committee to vote on 'backloading' proposal.
Parliament in brief
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The American and European business communities explain why they believe a transatlantic trade deal is necessary and feasible.
The Turkish prime minister's shallow interpretation of democracy is the root of his current problems.
The UK and the European Parliament have suggested ideas that are unlikely to fill the EU's democratic gap, and might widen it.
Jutta Urpilainen, as seen by Marco Villard.
Has Jutta Urpilainen, Finland's finance minister, given in to Euroscepticism?
Andrea Enria - chairman of the European Banking Authority
Jerzy Plewa – the European Commission's director-general for agriculture
Jaroslav Neverovic, Lithuania's energy minister
Deputy secretary-general at the Elysée, Emmanuel Macron
Alan Shatter, Ireland's minister for justice and equality, and for defence
Finland's minister for international development, Heidi Hautala.
Joseph Muscat - Malta's youngest prime minister
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