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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 8d

📢 We published the 21st issue of our newsletter "The Finder".
@pubaffairsbruxelles.eu's monthly newsletter to deep dive into topical EU and global issues.

✅ Read the 21st issue here: lnkd.in/e39bKqtv

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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 2h

📢 Do you wish to know more about how the #EU’s renewable fuel production can drive the de-fossilisation of #RoadTransport and strengthen food security?

☑️ Join @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu's in-person only event on Nov 19!

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#Ethanol

PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 7h

#EUPolitics: Ursula #VonderLeyen and the polarized #European Parliament, by Tessa Walther | Euractiv
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Ursula von der Leyen and the polarized European Parliament – DW – 10/08/2025

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is likely to survive Thursday's no-confidence vote — but both the EU's far left and far right have taken issue with how she is doing her job.

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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 7h

#EUPolitics: #France's woes not yet ringing alarm bells across #EU but worries keep rising, by Alice Tidey | Euronews
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

France's woes not yet ringing alarm bells across EU but worries rising

France is the EU's second-largest economy and concerns are growing that a prolonged deadlock could negatively impact the eurozone's economy. #EuropeNews

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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 7h

#EUPolitics: #France, in political crisis, risks having no budget, by Denis Cosnard | Euractiv
www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/...

France, in political crisis, risks having no budget

With no government and a hard deadline on October 13 for submitting the budget bill to Parliament, every passing day makes it more likely France will enter 2026 without a budget.

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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 7h

#EUPolitics: #European Parliament rejects #Hungary's request to lift MEP Magyar, #Salis and #Dobrev's immunities, by Sandor Zsir, and Vincenzo Genovese | Euronews
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

European Parliament rejects Hungary's request to lift MEP immunities

PM Viktor Orbán's main political challenger Péter Magyar and former activist Ilaria Salis will not face Hungarian prosecutors, as the European Parliament expressed concerns about the independence of H...

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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 7h

#EUPolitics: Once, twice, three times? #Metsola said to eye another term as EP president, by @eddywax.bsky.social, and Sarantis Michalopoulos | Euractiv
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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 7h

[Interview] #EUEconomy - ‘Take it off the table’: Union chief urges #Brussels to protect workers’ rights, by Jacob Wulff Wold, and Thomas Moller-Nielsen | Euractiv
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INTERVIEW: ‘Take it off the table’: Union chief urges Brussels to protect workers’ rights | Euractiv

The Commission's €2 trillion EU budget proposal is also "too small" and could spell "disaster" for European regions, said Esther Lynch, head of Europe's largest trade union organisation

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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 7h

#EUDefence: #EU needs broad response to hybrid warfare threats, #VonderLeyen says | Reuters
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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 7h

#EUAgriculture: #Parliament raises pressure on #Commission to come up with new #CAP proposal, by Alice Bergoend | Euractiv
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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 7h

#UkraineWar: Can #Europe save #Ukraine – and itself – from #Putin and #Trump?, by @cerianbond.bsky.social | @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social

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Can Europe save Ukraine – and itself – from Putin and Trump? - PubAffairs Bruxelles

The official accounts of the meeting between Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders on August 18th portrayed an attractive fantasy. The latest meeting of the ‘Coalition of the Willing’...

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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 1d

📢Do you wish to know more on whether the #EU institutions will adopt a pragmatic approach to #TransportPackaging?

☑️ Join PubAffairs - EU Debates, News & Opinions' hybrid event on the 15th of October!

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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 1d

The European Training Institute is pleased to remind you about the launch of its brand-new training, “EU Skills & Leadership Power”, taking place in Brussels on 4 & 5 Nov 2025

⌚️09h30 to 17h30 on both days

📍Pl. du Luxembourg 2

✅Info & Registration: tinyurl.com/bdzyebp4

PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 5d

[Featured] #Trade: #Trump's tariff war persists, destabilizing global trade, by Julien Bouissou | Le Monde
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Trump's tariff war persists, destabilizing global trade

NEWS ANALYSIS. Six months ago, on April 2, the president of the United States unveiled his 'reciprocal tariffs' on the rest of the world. Since then, Washington has wielded the threat of new taxes to ...

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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 5d

#EUEconomy: #Italy’s deficit will fall to 3% this year, predicts government, by @amykazmin.bsky.social | Financial Times
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Italy’s deficit will fall to 3% this year, predicts government

Giorgia Meloni’s administration would hit EU target a year earlier than anticipated due to bumper tax revenues

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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 5d

#GlobalEurope - Carbon copy: How #Europe can narrow the economic intelligence gap with #China, by Dr Janka Oertel | @ecfr.eu
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Carbon copy: How Europe can narrow the economic intelligence gap with China - PubAffairs Bruxelles

China is scooping up supply chain information as part of its trade restrictions. Europe lags behind in economic intelligence, but there is a way to start closing this gap with a low-cost, low-bureaucr...

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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 5d

[Opinion] #GlobalEurope: Dare we touch #Russia's golden goose?, by Orlando Whitehead | Euractiv
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The Brief – Dare we touch Russia's golden goose? | Euractiv

Bart De Wever has a knack for painting problems in visual terms, and likened the Russian assets held in Belgium to a goose laying "golden eggs". But the entertaining imagery demands a direct answer

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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 5d

#EUPolitics: Anti-#EU online disinformation floods #Czechia before elections, by @anupriyadatta.bsky.social | Euractiv
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Anti-EU online disinformation floods Czechia before elections | Euractiv

Czech parliament failed to designate a digital watchdog for the bloc's Digital Services Act (DSA), which populist parties in the country have branded a censorship tool

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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 5d

#EUPolitics: Where does #Germany stand 35 years after reunification?, by Marcel Fürstenau | Deutsche Welle
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Where does Germany stand 35 years after reunification? – DW – 10/03/2025

There is still a wide gap between the former East and West Germany, even amongst young people who have only ever lived in a unified country. The new commissioner for eastern Germany attempts to explai...

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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 5d

#Mobility: When it comes to electric vehicles, the #EU is still trying to find the right recipe, by @christiandietze.bsky.social | @ceps.eu
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When it comes to electric vehicles, the EU is still trying to find the right recipe - PubAffairs Bruxelles

The EU’s efforts to become climate neutral by 2050 can feel abstract, measured in intangible emissions and wrapped up in technical jargon. Yet on Europe’s streets, the transition is already visible in...

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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 5d

#EUDefence: #Europe needs a 'sense of urgency' on defence, #Finland's defence minister says, by @shonamurray.bsky.social | Euronews
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Europe needs more urgency on defence, Finland's defence minister says

Antti Häkkänen is urging European and NATO allies to speed up purchasing of weapons defence systems amid increasing incursions into NATO airspace. #EuropeNews

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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 5d

#UkraineWar: #Belgian PM #DeWever leaves door open for #Ukraine reparation loan, by @magnuslundnielsen.bsky.social | Euractiv
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Belgian PM De Wever leaves door open for Ukraine reparation loan | Euractiv

"Ceci n'est pas une confiscation," Wever said, referencing Belgian artist René Magritte

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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 6d

[Opinion] #EUEconomy & #Eurozone: Europe needs the economic equivalent of a drone wall to preserve its security and sovereignty. But that would require member states to hand new powers and funding to Brussels, by Simon Nixon | Euractiv
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Where is Europe's economic drone wall? | Euractiv

Europe needs the economic equivalent of a drone wall to preserve its security and sovereignty. But that would require member states to hand new powers and funding to Brussels

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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 6d

[Featured] #EUPolitics: #EU simplification drive gets tangled in its own red tape, by Alice Hancock, @andybounds.bsky.social | Financial Times
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EU simplification drive gets tangled in its own red tape

European parliament objects to ‘omnibus’ bills bypassing its procedures

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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 6d

#EUIndustry: #Macron urges #Brussels to protect #EU industry from #US, #China with ‘sector by sector’ tariffs, by Thomas Moller-Nielsen | Euractiv
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Macron urges Brussels to protect EU industry from US, China with ‘sector by sector’ tariffs | Euractiv

Europe is the only “place where we don’t protect our domestic players,” the French president said

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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 6d

#EUDefence: #EU elevates defence ministers amid drone threat, by @magnuslundnielsen.bsky.social | Euractiv
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EU elevates defence ministers amid drone threat | Euractiv

Drone incursions have pushed European leaders to confront the vulnerability of the bloc's eastern flank