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Orban asks for EU funds to help Hungary amid refugee crisis

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has asked the European Commission to disburse all EU funds allocated to the country including a loan under the Recovery and Resilience Facility to help handle the Ukrainian refugee crisis, his press chief said.

Reuters

EU to set out job, school, housing plan for Ukraine refugees

The European Commission on Wednesday will set out plans to ensure people fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine have access to jobs, education and housing after an unprecedented flow of refugees into the European Union.

Reuters

Defending Europe: How cultural identity shapes support for Ukraine and armed resistance against Russia

Since the Russian invasion began on Feb. 24, 2022, the outpouring of solidarity and material support for Ukraine across Europe has been impressive – and highly unusual.

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EU backs Spain's shift on Western Saharan autonomy

The European Commission backed Spain's new position on the fate of Western Sahara as an autonomous region of Morocco, supporting a surprise change of tack by the government of Pedro Sanchez that has met with much domestic opposition.

Reuters

How Big Tech lost the antitrust battle with Europe

Brussels is set to finalise stringent new legislation targeting Silicon Valley giants, whose desperate lobbying has fallen on deaf ears

Financial Times

Microsoft Faces Anti-competition Complaint in Europe

Three companies have lodged a complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft, accusing the US technology giant of anti-competitive practices in its cloud services, sources told AFP Saturday, confirming media reports. Microsoft is "undermining fair competition and limiting the choice of consumers" in the computing cloud services market, said one…

Asharq Al-Awsat

'Democracy is standing up against autocracy' in Ukraine, EU's von der Leyen says

"It cannot be that an autocrat attacks a sovereign country which has the right to the integrity of its territory." That's the firm response directed at Russia from the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. Speaking exclusively to FRANCE 24 about the war in Ukraine, the EU…

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Ukraine president says he expects progress on EU membership bid within months

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he spoke with the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on Friday and Ukraine expects progress to be made on its application to join the European Union in the coming months.

Reuters

Ukraine war prompts EU to cut Poland some slack in rule of law dispute

Sources say European commission ready to release billions in locked recovery funds

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Germany Could Offer Intel €5B Subsidy For €17B Chip Plant: Bloomberg

Germany looks to offer Intel Corp (NASDAQ:INTC) with a grant of over €5 billion ($5.5 billion) in public funds to build a massive semiconductor plant, Bloomberg reports. The final subsidy is subject to the approval of the European Commission. Related Content: Global Efforts To Reduce Semiconductor Dependence Will Further Exacerbate Crisis: Bloomberg Intel looks…

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Intel to Announce Details of Europe Investment Plans on Tuesday

Intel plans to announce details on Tuesday of its investment plans for semiconductor research and manufacturing in Europe, hinting that it has finalized locations for new factories. The US chipmaker unveiled plans last September to invest as much as $95 billion in Europe over the next decade, and Chief Executive…

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War in Ukraine could cut global supply of essential elements for making green technology

The EU imports 40% of its natural gas from Russia, and nearly half of the five million barrels of crude oil Russia exports daily go to Europe. Fossil fuel revenue funds Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, and for this reason, the European Commission recently announced plans to eliminate Russian fuel imports…

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Could energy independence from Russia spur a shift to renewables?

European energy experts and the ECB say such a transition will involve higher energy costs and some hardship.

Al Jazeera

EU to keep talking with Bulgaria until enlargement spat solved, Borrell says

The European Commission will continue talking to Bulgaria to get its approval for accepting North Macedonia into the bloc, the EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday.

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EU Unveils Fourth Set of Sanctions against Russia

The European Union will suspend Moscow's privileged trade and economic treatment, crack down on its use of crypto-assets and ban exports to Russia of EU luxury goods and import of iron and steel goods, the head of the European Commission said on Friday. The new measures amount to a fourth…

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European Recommendation On Valneva's COVID-19 Shot Pushed Into April

Valneva SE (NASDAQ:VALN) now expects a positive recommendation from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for its VLA2001 COVID-19 candidate vaccine in April. Earlier, the Company expected the European recommendation by the end of March. As announced in February, Valneva received a list of questions as part of the CHMP's initial assessment, to which…

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EU, UK Launches Antitrust Investigations On Google, Meta

EU and U.K. antitrust regulators launched parallel investigations into Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) unit Google and Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) over a 2018 ad deal, CNBC reports. The European Commission and the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority investigated whether the pact between the two tech giants dubbed “Jedi Blue” squeezed competitors out of…

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Google, Meta Face EU Probe into Possible Competition Breach

The European Union threatened to crack down on an agreement between Google and Facebook parent Meta for online display advertising services, saying Friday that the deal may breach the bloc’s rules on fair competition. The EU’s competition watchdog opened a probe into a 2018 pact involving the participation of Meta’s…

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EU leaders to offer stronger bonds, deeper partnership to Ukraine -draft

European Union leaders will offer to strengthen the bloc's bonds with Ukraine and deepen its partnership as the European Commission assesses if Kyiv is ready to become a candidate for full EU membership, a draft EU declaration showed.

Al Jazeera

EU announces plan to slash Russian gas imports this year

The European Commission has announced a plan to reduce gas imports from Russia by two-thirds this year.

Reuters

EU Commission proposes EU-wide laws to combat violence against women

The European Commission proposed on Tuesday European Union-wide rules to fight violence against women, to protect and support victims and to prevent such violence in the first place.

Reuters

Exclusive-EU to sanction more Russian oligarchs, Belarus banks over Ukraine invasion -sources

The European Commission has prepared a new package of sanctions against Russia and Belarus over the invasion of Ukraine that will hit additional Russian oligarchs and politicians and three Belarusian banks, three sources told Reuters on Tuesday.

France 24

Ukrainians are 'dying for European values… we want them in': EU's Sefcovic

In an interview with FRANCE 24, European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic condemned Russia's attack on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as "absolutely irresponsible" and called the Russian invasion of Ukraine an "absolutely senseless war". Sefcovic also welcomed Ukraine's bid for EU membership, saying that Ukrainians are "dying for European values…

France 24

Russian gas supplies to Europe decline sharply

Shipments of Russian natural gas through the Yamal Pipeline have sharply declined, a week after Russian troops invaded Ukraine. Gazprom insists it's fulfilling all of its European contracts, but the data has underscored the EU's dependence on Russian energy imports. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says ending that…

France 24

Facing an existential threat, Ukraine seeks ‘immediate’ EU membership – but can the bloc deliver?

President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked that Ukraine be granted "immediate" EU membership “via a new special procedure" and signed an official application for candidacy. But despite the stated backing of several MEPs, heads of state and even European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, such support is largely symbolic; the…

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