The Ariane 6 launcher, show during tests in 2021, will be used to launch satellites for France’s “Céleste” and “Iris” surveillance programs.
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While many countries have tested anti-satellite missiles, France has committed itself not to do so. For what reasons, and with what consequences?
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Ukraine’s summit with EU will be all about avoiding mixed messages on both sides.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
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Insider politics: why Germany needed US tanks to be offered to Ukraine.
Nicola Sturgeon.
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The fallout over the Scottish government’s gender recognition legislation has not happened in isolation.
The U.S. and EU are headed in different directions with tariffs, including on steel.
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Both sides have reason to find common ground, says a group of energy and climate policy analysts.
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The UK needs an industrial strategy to counter the rise of EU battery manufacturing.
In 2009, 150 of the 180 residents of the care facility in Ellignies-Sainte-Anne were French. At the time, approximately 6,500 French citizens living with disabilities were in Belgian institutions due to the lack of appropriate structures in France. The figure has since grown to 8,500, a jump of more than 30%.
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It is estimated that more than 8,000 French citizens with disabilities currently live in Belgium. For many parents, placing their children in foreign institutions is not so much a choice as the only alternative they have.
Is the EU’s new legislation a coup de grâce or a promise of transition for sensitive sectors in fragile countries, such as the steel industry in Bosnia-Herzegovina?
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Already lacking the means to decarbonise their industry or turn to greener alternatives, poor countries could also be deprived of revenues from exports to Europe.
Many of the products we buy are linked to deforestation.
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The EU have introduced a new regulation on the import of products linked to deforestation – but will this reduce deforestation globally?
In July 2022, passers-by watch the progress of a fire near Gignac (Hérault).
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The forest fires that struck the Continent in the summer of 2022 were devastating, yet historical data shows that they were not ‘unprecedented’, contrary to media accounts.
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Brussels’ inability to tackle Hungary’s growing authoritarianism reveals a key weakness in the EU system.
The floating LNG storage and regasification unit “Independence”, used as an LNG import terminal in Lithuania, pictured in the port of Klaipeda on 23 August 2023.
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Long dependent on Russia for its energy, Lithuania has now entirely broken away from Moscow. To what extent can other EU countries learn from the small Baltic country?
The European Parliament is at the centre of a corruption case that has already resulted in the indictment of several people, including one of its vice-presidents.
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The ongoing corruption scandal in the EU Parliament casts a harsh light both on the practices of Qatar and on some of the flaws in the EU institutions.
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Switzerland’s arrangement with the EU involves legal compromises the UK isn’t willing to make.
The Port of Hamburg has become a contentious topic within the German government.
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Olaf Scholz is learning the difficulty of preaching the benefits of Chinese business to his government.
It’s about more than football.
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Orbán’s nationalist gesture at a recent football match raises important questions – and tensions.
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If passed in its current form, the European Union’s new directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence will be world-leading.
A railway station in Milan.
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Immigrants claiming benefits in their European host countries have lesser chances of securing residency permits and citizenship, research shows.
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Amid Russia’s war on Ukraine, spiralling inflation and energy shortages, tackling climate change has been central to the recovery plans of the world’s biggest economies.
Dan Stoenescu, head of the EU delegation for Syria, during a visit to the territories controlled by the Damascus regime on 8 August 2022.
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In the name of contributing to the reconstruction of Syria, is the EU rehabilitating Bashar Al-Assad?