How do you protect crops from diseases, insects and other pests when pesticides have a serious sulphur smell? Scientific research proposes to modify plants using genetic editing resources. Biotechnology advocates swear that these modified plants are not GMOs and
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The health crisis is reopening the debate about a living wage or an unconditional allowance. The ministers of the Portuguese, Spanish and Italian governments are calling for the creation of a European minimum income system and for solidarity to minimise the consequences of the health crisis. According to the three countries, the EU needs
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By dint of repeating that coal is a disastrous fossil fuel for the planet, world leaders seem to have finally understood. Coal has recorded a drop of 3 % in world electricity production. This figure is an average, with ups and downs according to the
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The Société d'encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale and Synopia are organising a round table on Thursday 17 October 2019, from 7 pm to 9 pm, on the theme "Lobbying: a good or an evil for Europe, its democracy and its economy? The decisions taken in Brussels are sometimes perceived as the "best or worst" for Europe.
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The right to oblivion and neighbouring rights, two cases of very different natures have brought Google, the giant of search engines, into conflict with European justice. In both cases, one in which it is condemned and the other not, Google is trying to play the game as finely as possible. It does so by
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The European States' subsidies to oil companies have gone up this year: EUR 50 billion. Oil companies' investments in drilling and shale gas extraction continue despite the limits set by the Paris Agreement. The cars sold worldwide in 2018 will give off more fuel during
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Despite the environmental and health risks and the overpowering power given to the lobbies, Macron wants to speed up the ratification of the AACC. Indeed, the President of the Republic has called for the fastest possible ratification of this trade treaty between Canada and the European Union. After two years of
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Polls and voting estimates had hardly seen it coming: environmentalists have made their mark in the European elections. They are increasing the number of their members in the future European Parliament by 50 %. A strong dynamic, driven by a young vote, which imposes the urgency of the need for a new European Parliament.
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It is not only in France that the campaign for the European elections is struggling. The situation is the same in the 28 member states of the European Union. In the United Kingdom, the pro-Brexit section of the electorate finds it difficult to accept the fact that they have to go to the polls,
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To wage the climate war, you need money, and a lot of money. Where do you get it? In the pockets of populations, citizens already in great economic distress, or peoples threatened with the end of their world? To try to win the climate battle, we need 1,000 billion
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In 2018, the European Commission has adopted a pragmatic approach to address the shortcomings of the technology giants. 2019 is likely to be the dawn of a " éthique technologique " where consumers expect their rights to be respected in the digital realm as they are in their daily lives. The
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Une grande consultation franco-allemande est organisée par l’Institut G9+avec Roland Berger, Croissance+, Bpifrance et Make.org. sur le thème « Comment faire émerger les champions européens du numérique ? » Les élections européennes qui auront lieu en Mai 2019 offrent une formidable opportunité pour un grand réveil numérique européen. Grâce à une
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The document was for internal use, but the Euractiv site has just published its contents. It is a confidential note from BusinessEurope, the organisation headed by Pierre Gattaz, which federates the major European employers' associations. The note of this European Medef unveils its strategy in the negotiations with the European Union on
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The scientific-economic-judicial battle has been raging for ten years. Are organisms (plants or animal species) modified by genetic engineering tools such as CRISPR GMOs or not? The Court of Justice of the European Union has just handed down its verdict, which will henceforth set a precedent: organisms modified by
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Vendredi 1er juin, Phil Hogan, le commissaire européen à l’Agriculture, a présenté les grandes lignes de la réforme de la politique agricole commune (PAC). Un projet qui aura réussi à faire l’unanimité contre lui, si l’on en croit les réactions des principaux acteurs français et notamment du ministre Stéphane Travert. Le
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Europe is at a crossroads. It has long been the bearer of an original model of capitalism, based on strong ambitions from a social (redistribution and welfare state, provision of public services, etc.) and environmental point of view, but which now seems to be eroding. Can Europe reinvigorate its model and the
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Every day, we learn more about the mass of personal information collected, without our knowledge, by Facebook in particular and the giants of the web in general. Mark Zuckerberg's excuses are no longer enough to calm the storm that has risen against Facebook, which is not only unable to protect our data,
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Europe's digital market has changed significantly over the last five years: this is reflected in the new roaming regulation of 15 June 2017, which allows European citizens to pay for mobile internet at their national rate regardless of where they are in the European Union (EU). Its unification will continue
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Our societies, while deploring the crisis of representative democracy, still find it difficult to conceive of real processes of citizen debate and even more difficult to admit that the renewal of democracy implies new methods, which take time and have a cost. How
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Europe is no longer a dream come true. The total indifference with which the ceremonies commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, signed in 1957, ended confirms that the great dream of the founding fathers is behind us. The former President of the European Commission's Goldman Sachs pantouflage,
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