- Category: National Policy Reports
The European Union has set itself ambitious climate targets. Czechia plans to contribute to these goals with nuclear energy still on track. According to a recent study initiated by Czech MEPs, it is the only feasible way to do so. However, energy and environment analysts are not that keen on nuclear energy.
- Category: National Policy Reports
The Slovak government has yet to agree on where, how, and for how much it will roll-out the missing broadband networks, as the European Commission is talking about ultra-fast internet coverage in the whole of EU. But while the finance ministry suggests that the state will subsidize the tightening of optical cables at the level of municipalities, IT and telecom experts warn that the country has not invested a single euro to cover the full connectivity of households.
- Category: V4 Mirror
Just as the other EU countries, the Visegrad states are endangered by the amplification of manipulated information and the pandemic has only contributed to the problem. Combatting disinformation is a whole society effort that requires action through various channels, states Naďa Kovalčíková from German Marshall Fund Brussels office in an interview with EURACTIV.pl.
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Elif Gündüzyeli is a Senior Coal Policy Coordinator at the Climate Action Network.
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EU ministers set to approve controversial border control powers on asylum cases
EU ministers are set to introduce new rules allowing border control officials to prevent third-country nationals from crossing EU borders and applying for asylum in cases of so-called ‘instrumentalisation’, a diplomatic source told Euractiv.
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Medicine information leaflets: Paper, digital or both?
The European Commission's proposed pharmaceutical strategy leaves it to the countries to decide whether the medicine information leaflet is in paper format electronic, or both. However, moving exclusively towards the electronic version could risk leaving behind those lacking digital skills.
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Green MEP advocates for keeping paper medicine leaflets
The European Commission's proposed pharmaceutical strategy leaves it to the countries to decide whether drugs' package leaflet is in paper format electronic, or both. However, having only electronic leaflets might put patients' safety at risk, Luxembourgish MEP Tilly Metz has warned.