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EU schools' teachers demand EU employment rights in Brussels protest

Hundreds of teachers at EU schools whose ex-pupils include British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen marched on Wednesday to demand better job security and contracts protected under EU employment laws.

Reuters

EU wants to force fashion firms to make clothes more durable and recyclable

New design rules would also force firms to reveal how much unsold product they send to landfill

The Guardian - UK

EU proposes new rules to discourage disposable fast fashion

The European Union plans to counter the polluting use of trendy fast fashion and is warning consumers to stop using their clothes like disposable facial tissues

The Independent UK

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'Stand Up for Ukraine' plan gets political, celebrity help

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s call for humanitarian help has been answered by the European Commission, the government of Canada and dozens of celebrities assembled by advocacy nonprofit Global Citizen, including Oscar winners Billie Eilish and Finneas, actor Hugh Jackman, as well as Madonna and top Grammy nominee Jon Batiste

The Independent UK

Russia sanctions: Heineken and Carlsberg join firms severing ties over Ukraine invasion – see full list

Banks, businesses, oligarchs and Cabinet ministers all targeted with harsh economic penalties by Western democracies as punishment for Vladimir Putin’s actions

The Independent UK

EU wants to end golden passport schemes, targets Russians

The European Commission has recommended that the bloc's 27 nations end golden passport schemes that allow wealthy people — among them Russian oligarchs — to buy their way to EU citizenship

The Independent UK

EU seeks end to golden passport schemes, halt to sales of visas to Russians

The European Commission called on EU governments on Monday to end national programmes to sell citizenship to investors, also known as golden passports schemes, and urged them to suspend the sale of visas to Russians and Belarusians.

Reuters

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Ireland still biggest producer of plastic packaging per head of population in EU

The 2019 European Commission statistics also show we’re fifth worst at recycling the plastics we produce

Irish Mirror

Russia-Ukraine latest updates: Biden defends Putin remarks

Ukraine news from March 28: Joe Biden refuses to backtrack after saying Vladimir Putin ‘cannot remain in power’.

Al Jazeera

EU unveils plan to control soaring gas prices

Countries will purchase gas collectively in bid to exert market power

The Independent UK

EU leaders reach compromise on energy after long debate

EU leaders struggled for hours Friday to find a compromise on a deal aimed at curbing energy prices that have gone through the roof and hurt households and businesses across the 27-nation bloc

The Independent UK

US, European Union Forge Fresh Data Sharing Pact

The E.U. and U.S. broke the deadlock on cross-border data-transfer pact to relieve tech giants like Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB), Bloomberg reports. The U.S. also agreed to provide energy to Europe as the Russian invasion of Ukraine threatened to disrupt the continent’s energy supplies, CNBC reports. This new pact will “enable predictable and trustworthy…

Benzinga

US, EU reach gas supply deal to reduce dependence on Russia

BRUSSELS — The U.S. and the European Union will push to boost supplies of liquefied natural gas to European countries by the end of 2022 in a bid to begin to displace some Russian gas, a political framework that now leaves companies to sort out the details.

Tribune News Service

US, EU sign data transfer deal to ease privacy concerns

The European Union and United States made a breakthrough in their yearslong battle over the privacy of data that flows across the Atlantic with a preliminary agreement that paves the way for Europeans’ personal information to be stored in the U.S. President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von…

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ClientEarth launches legal action against EU over unsustainable fishing quotas

Exclusive: Over-exploitation of fish stocks was supposed to end in 2020 under common fisheries policy

Reuters

U.S., EU strike LNG deal as Europe seeks to cut Russian gas

The United States will work to supply 15 billion cubic metres of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the European Union this year to help it wean off Russian energy supplies, the transatlantic partners said on Friday.

Benzinga

US, EU Ink Deal As Europe Explores Options To Cut Russian Gas: Reuters

U.S. President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the formation of a task force to reduce Europe's reliance on Russian oil.

Asharq Al-Awsat

US, EU Strike LNG Deal Deal as Europe Seeks to Cut Russian Gas

The United States will work to supply 15 billion cubic meters (bcm) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to European Union markets this year, as Europe seeks to wean itself off Russian gas supplies, the transatlantic partners said on Friday. US President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der…

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Al Jazeera

US, EU announce plan to reduce European reliance on Russian gas

New joint task force to work on slashing the bloc’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels.

Reuters

EU leaders present united front after row over fix for energy crunch

EU leaders bickered on Friday over steps to ease the energy market crunch exacerbated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but managed to present a united front amid mounting concern over the impact on hard-hit consumers of soaring gas and oil prices.

The Guardian - UK

Inflation pressures hit consumer confidence; Moscow stock market falls back – as it happened

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

Axios

Europe agrees on big new package of tech rules

The new laws aim to restore competition to the digital marketplace. They could reshape the business of Big Tech.

Al Jazeera

Latest Ukraine updates: Russia says first phase of war near end

Ukraine war news from March 25: Russian general says Moscow will push to fully capture eastern region of Donbas.

The Guardian - UK

EU leaders wrangle with issue of oil and gas imports from Russia at summit

Poland and Baltic states seek embargo, while other countries including Germany and Belgium want gradual measures

The Conversation

Biodiversity: why new rules to ensure nature benefits from building projects could fail

The UK government is making serious investments in new infrastructure as part of its post-pandemic recovery strategy, with £27 billion committed to road expansion, and a target of building an additional 300,000 homes per year. But it also has ambitious targets to halt and reverse wildlife declines by the end…

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