TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — European leaders and Tunisia’s president announced progress on Sunday in the building of hoped-for closer economic and trade relations and on measures to combat the often lethal smuggling of migrants across the Mediterranean Sea. The leaders of Italy, the Netherlands and the European Commission made their […]
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European Union fines biotech giant Illumina $475 million for taking over cancer-screening company Grail without approval BRUSSELS — European Union fines biotech giant Illumina $475 million for taking over cancer-screening company Grail without approval. source: abcnews.go.com
Meta has apparently skipped launching its highly anticipated Twitter-like app “Threads” in European Union countries as Mark Zuckerberg’s social media behemoth faces mounting regulatory pressure in the region, according to a report. The “Threads” app did not appear in searches of app stores in Germany, Spain, Italy, and France as […]
An oil palm plantation on deforested land in South-East Asia richcarey/iStockphoto/Getty Images The European Union is aiming to stop vast swathes of tropical forest from being destroyed or degraded with a new law that came into effect last week. But sustainability researchers have told New Scientist the law doesn’t address […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Friday renewing the European Union’s permission to inspect vessels off Libya’s coast suspected of violating the an arms embargo on the troubled North African nation. The vote on the resolution sponsored by France and Malta was 14-0, with Russia […]
London CNN — Questions swirl about the strength of China’s recovery from Covid lockdowns, and there’s talk of recession in the United States. Yet Europe’s economic prospects have brightened in recent months, according to the European Commission. The EU’s executive arm on Monday upgraded its growth outlook for 2023 and […]
European Union countries are buying almost a fifth more fish from Russia than they did before Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, according to trade figures. Deliveries of fish from Russia to the EU last year increased by 18.7 percent to 198,800 metric tons, the Russian Fishery Industry Association says. […]
The law includes limits on carbon emissions for new cars beginning in 2030, seeking cuts based on 2021 levels, and includes exceptions for companies that produce fewer than 1,000 vehicles. Lawmakers stressed that the law applied only to newly produced vehicles, not to fossil-fuel-burning cars and vans that are already […]