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In recent years, and especially after the Covid-19 pandemic, digital payments and online shopping have increased in the euro area, while cash has fallen as a total share of payments from 72% to 59% between 2019 and 2022 and the number of banknotes in circulation fell for the first time last year. Following this trend, in October 2021 the ECB launched a study phase on the possibility of issuing its own central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital euro, to provide an additional form of public money in the euro area. In June 2023, the EU Commission proposed the legal framework that could pav...
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Battery manufacturers and electricity power companies penned a letter to EU lawmakers today (July 4) urging them not to withdraw the ban on combustion cars by 2035 and to instead direct efforts towards Europe’s e-mobility ecosystem and make EU industry competitive. The letter with nine signatories, including Eurelectric, Eurocities, the International Copper Association Europe, and Transport & Environment (T&E), came in response to a European People’s Party (EPP) draft document which pointed to weakening the bloc’s plan to phase-out internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. Led by Eurelectric,...
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Online platform Vinted will appeal the €2,3 m privacy fine it received from the Lithuanian data protection authority yesterday, a company spokesperson told Euronews today (4 July). The platform, on which users can sell second hand clothes, shoes and bags, was ordered to pay the penalty as the Lithuanian watchdog found that the company breached the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by failing to give users the right to erase their data. The investigation was forwarded to Vilnius after the French and the Polish privacy regulators received local complaints. Under the GDPR, the regula...
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The Hungarian government wants to use its EU Council presidency to push for the creation of an EU-wide plan on cardiovascular health, with a particular focus on prevention and tackling inequalities, according to a document seen by Euronews. The idea is to create an EU plan with common targets that, together with national plans, would improve the current worrying situation of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in the bloc. A quick internet search on heart attack prevention will often show pictures of a man with his hand over his chest, writhing in pain. While this may correspond to male experience ...
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The recently ended legislative mandate has underscored the importance of health in EU policymaking, even though national governments still retain primary competence over the sector. The EU's Beating Cancer Plan was a top priority for the EU executive before COVID-19 elevated health on the Commission’s agenda, resulting in the bloc’s first budget line dedicated to health. Sources in the largest Parliament’s group, the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), suggested that MEPs might look to establish a standalone health committee with legislative powers, which could further amplify the focu...
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The incoming Hungary EU Presidency will push for bloc-wide approval of an initiative for expansion of geothermal energy by the end of the year to boost certainty in the sector for potential investors, an Hungarian official said during an event in Brussels today (July 3). Addressing a conference organised by the European Geothermal Energy Council (EGEC), Viktor Horváth, deputy state secretary responsible for energy transition in Hungary, said this energy emanating from the Earth’s crust is locally available and will enhance energy security and stressed the importance of making available public ...
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While Ursula von der Leyen seeks support from MEPs in her bid for a second term as European Commission president, her European People’s Party does not plan to broaden a three-way centrist alliance with the Socialists & Democrats and liberal Renew group, but one way or another she might need the support of the Greens or the hard right. A senior source within the EPP told Euronews the Greens group would not be invited to join. “There won't be any formal inclusion of the Greens in the platform,” the source said, adding: “It will not happen.” This was reinforced by a spokesperson for the centre-ri...
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EUDA officially started working this week in Portugal following a 2022 Commission proposal to beef up the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). “This will allow you [the agency] to do an even better job than you do today warning Europe of the dangers of drugs,” said Ylva Johansson, European Commissioner for Home Affairs during the official launch of the agency in Lisbon. With worrying consumption statistics revealed in the European Drugs Report 2024, the EUDA will focus on strengthening drug preparedness in an increasingly intricate environment with “an increasingly...
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From reversing a ban on petrol and diesel cars to lifting protection for wolves, the EPP’s environment spokesperson Peter Liese has outlined what the centre-right party hopes to achieve in the next five years. The German Christian Democrat, a former medical doctor and an MEP since 1994, said he is confident of being re-appointed as the group’s environment spokesperson tomorrow (4 july), when the EPP plans to adopt its policy agenda for the coming parliament term. Leaks earlier this week suggest the group wants to pause or even reverse aspects of the EU Green Deal, the flagship policy agenda of...
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People in major European countries such as France, Italy, Spain and the UK don’t favour increased defence spending, a poll by the European Council on Foreign Relations has found. That may pose a challenge as the continent seeks to bolster its military in the face of the war in Ukraine, and faces up to the prospect of a US less committed to transatlantic security. The results, based on polls of 19,500 adults in 15 countries, also show many EU citizens sceptical about the bloc expanding to the east, just days after Brussels began the formal process of membership talks with both Ukraine and Moldo...
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