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The EU Budget’s CORE Is Rotten
Tax Foundation
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July 18, 2025
This week, the European Commission proposed new budget options for its next multiannual financial framework (MFF), which will run from 2028 to 2034. While it covers all aspects of the EU budget, it is worth zooming in on one new proposal for...
How the EU is preparing to reach a tariff deal in Trump's game of chicken
CNBC
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July 18, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he departs the White House on July 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images The U.S. has doubled down on its plan to impose 30% tariffs on the European Union next month, seeking...
Scale Green Energy Secures €8M to Deploy Six Hydrogen Refueling Stations Across Spain
Hydrogen Fuel News
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July 18, 2025
Scale Green Energy, the renewable energy arm of Enagás, just locked in more than €8 million in funding from the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA). What’s the plan? To roll out six hydrogen refueling stations...
Leader of gang that instigated Spain’s race riots is jailed – but who are ‘Deport Them Now’?
Olive Press
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July 18, 2025
THE alleged leader of the far-right ‘Deport Them Now’ group has been denied bail by a Catalunya court. He’s been charged with hate crimes, illegal possession of weapons, and belonging to an illegal group with the intent of committing...
Climate change sees Energy industry workers among those most at risk
Electrical Engineering
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July 17, 2025
A global safety charity is calling for more research into the most effective ways to protect workers in the energy industry from safety risks posed by climate change. According to a report from Lloyd’s Register Foundation’s new Global Safety...
EU warns Cyprus over atmospheric pollutants law
Cyprus Mail
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July 18, 2025
The European Commission on Thursday sent Cyprus a “reasoned opinion” over the country’s failure to transpose into its legal system a directive regarding the reporting of projected emissions of some atmospheric pollutants. A reasoned opinion is the...
France Submits Bill To Test Bitcoin Mining With Excess Power
Bitcoin Magazine - Tennessee
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July 17, 2025
French lawmakers have submitted a new proposal to transform surplus electricity into economic value through Bitcoin mining. The bill, introduced on July 11, outlines a five-year experimental program that would allow energy producers to use excess...
The 5 European countries under heatwave alert as 41C heat bomb furnaces Spain - full list
Daily Express
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July 18, 2025
Europe is bracing for more blistering heat over the weekend, with yellow and red weather alerts issued in five European countries. The mercury is set to soar to a whopping 41C in Spain's Vega del Segura, to hit 40C in the Interior Norte de...
Employment in Britain’s green economy up one-third since 2015
Edie
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July 18, 2025
Pictured: A heat pump installer. Image: Baxi The Office for National Statistics (ONS) this week revealed that the UK’s green economy employed 690,900 full-time equivalent staff in 2023, up from 513,300 in 2015 – a 34.6% increase. For context,...
France Withdraws from Senegal, Ending 65 Years of Military Presence Amid Regional Realignm
teleSUR
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July 17, 2025 Hour: 7:52 pm In a pivotal moment for West African geopolitics, France officially concluded its military presence in Senegal with a ceremonial handover at Camp Geille, Dakar. The event marked the final phase of a withdrawal that...
Latvia Contributes To EU Innovation Agenda At Denmark Meeting
MENAFN
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July 18, 2025
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 18. Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Economics of Latvia, Jurģis Miezainis, and Deputy State Secretary Edijs Šaicāns participated in the Informal Meeting of the European Union...
Germany, UK sign post-Brexit friendship pact
Daily Finland
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Five years after Brexit, Germany and the United Kingdom have formally placed their relationship on a new footing with a wide-ranging friendship treaty, reported dpa. Chancellor Friedrich Merz and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed the...
New cheapest electric car in Britain! The bargain Chinese EV that's had its price cut to £14,500
This Is Money
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July 18, 2025
The £14,995 Dacia Spring is no longer Britain's cheapest electric car... for the time being, anyway. It has lost its crown to a Chinese newcomer, which today announced it is slashing its model prices in response to the Government's new Electric...
Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights: Towards a Principled Approach
Reason Magazine
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July 18, 2025
This book demonstrates that, with few exceptions, the ECtHR's general approach to hate speech has been overly expansive, often undervaluing both the significance of free speech and the harms resulting from the suppression of relatively...
Germany’s Finance Minister Rules Out Joint EU Debt Amid Rising Transatlantic Trade Tensions
EUToday
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July 17, 2025
10Joint debt should not be the solution to the EU’s financial challenges, Germany’s Federal Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil has said, reiterating Berlin’s firm opposition to any new common borrowing and calling instead for alternative approaches...
Britain, Germany sign defense, migration deal
Xinhua News Agency
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) shakes hands with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, on July 17, 2025. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday signed a...
Direct UK-Germany trains could begin under new treaty
Azzet
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July 17, 2025
Direct trains between London and Berlin could be built under a new bilateral treaty between the United Kingdom and Germany. The two countries are forming a joint task force to plan a direct rail link, which the U.K.’s government said would boost...
Wildfires in Europe burn area the size of Luxembourg as 2025 shapes up to be an 'extreme' year
Euronews
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July 18, 2025
An area almost the size of Luxembourg has been burnt by wildfires in Europe so far this year, according to the EU's European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS). As of 15 July, the cumulative total of scorched land stands at 231,539 hectares -...
EU Commission targets Cyprus and others countries in broad legal crackdown
Knews Kathimerini
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The European Commission has initiated legal proceedings against several EU member states, including Cyprus, for failing to comply with a range of obligations under European Union law, spanning environmental regulations, critical infrastructure...
Gardening in southern Spain: Penstemon barbatus
SUR in English
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July 18, 2025
Friday, 18 July 2025, 12:01 Compartir Native to the south western US, Penstemon barbatus is a clump forming perennial with erect spikes of brilliant scarlet tubular flowers and dark-green lanceolate leaves. Commonly called beardlip penstemon or...