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Ombudsman announces Award for Good Administration 2019 winners

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis -
The European Commission’s initiative in plastics pollution reduction and awareness raising is the overall winner in the European Ombudsman’s 2019 Award for Good Administration,...

Marija Pejčinović Burić elected Secretary General of the Council of Europe

CROATIA Theodoros Benakis -
On June 26 the Assembly elected Marija Pejčinović Burić Secretary General of the Council of Europe for a five-year term beginning on 18 September 2019. In the first...

Almost two-thirds of palm oil consumed in the EU is burned as energy – new data

ASIA Theodoros Benakis -
Europeans are increasingly eating less and less palm oil and instead are inadvertently burning more and more in cars and trucks. Last year 65%...

GRECO report warns: public perceptions of low levels of corruption may be misleading

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis -
On June 25, the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption body (GRECO) warned that public perceptions of low levels of corruption in certain countries may lead...

EU countries should agree bilaterally to tax aviation fuel, ministers tell

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis -
The Netherlands and Sweden’s calls for bilateral or multilateral agreements between EU countries to be a way forward to tax aviation fuel have been...
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