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Today, the Commission presents a Green Deal Industrial Plan to enhance the competitiveness of Europe's net-zero industry and support the fast transition to climate neutrality. The Plan aims to provide a more supportive environment for the scaling up of the EU's manufacturing capacity for the net-zero technologies and products required to meet Europe's ambitious climate targets. The Plan b...
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Today, the European Commission presented its Communication entitled “Green Deal Industrial Plan for a Net-Zero Age”, which falls short of what is needed. The leader of the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, Iratxe García, said: “The only clear goal of the European Commission’s paper presented today is to move towards an ecological net-zero industrial policy. Of course, this...
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Madam President, dear Roberta, Madam Minister, Honourable Members, Last year, Frontex reported 330,000 irregular border crossings. This is a 64% increase compared to the year before and the highest figure since 2016. In parallel, there were 924,000 asylum applications   across the European Union. There are without any doubt increasing pressures at our external borders. It is our dut...
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Today, the Commission has published the 2023 Annual Single Market Report and the 2022 Single Market Scoreboard, as part of activities to mark the 30th anniversary of the Single Market. The reports confirm that the Single Market remains a key tool to address Europe's current challenges and highlight the importance of continuously improving its functioning, as well as highlighting the Single M...
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Following a provisional agreement between the Council and the European Parliament last week, the committee on justice and home affairs has signed off on new EU rules on cross-border access to electronic evidence. The agreement improves cross-border access to so-called “e-evidence” in criminal proceedings and makes it possible for investigating authorities to address judicial orders for e-eviden...
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High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell has concluded his visit to Southern Africa. In South Africa, HR/VP Borrell co-chaired, together with the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa, Dr Naledi Pandor, the 15th session of the Ministerial Political Dialogue. The meeting was also attended by Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, Com...
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The press briefing ahead of the EU-Ukraine summit of 3 February 2023 will take place on Wednesday 1 February 2023 at 14.00. This briefing will be "off the record". The press briefing will take place in a hybrid format: EU accredited journalists will be able to participate and ask questions either in person at the Justus Lipsius press room or remotely. To attend the events remotely, please us...
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The call for entries for the visit.brussels Awards 2023 has been launched. This is an opportunity to reward the creative initiatives in Brussels that have allowed the city and its inhabitants to shine in Belgium and beyond in 2022. Read the press release 
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On Thursday in Jenin, at least nine Palestinians were killed and more than 20 were injured during an operation by the Israeli Defence Forces. This brings the number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank to 30 since the start of this year. Last year, more than 150 people were killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank, including 30 children, the highest number since the end of the second intif...
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The European Union is horrified by yesterday’s appalling terror attack in a Jerusalem synagogue, that killed at least seven people and left many injured, as they attended Shabbat service, and by this morning’s attack in East Jerusalem, which left two victims injured, one seriously. The EU strongly condemns these acts of insane violence and hate. These terrible events demonstrate once again ...
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