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Poland halts asylum claims at Belarus border, urges Europe to follow

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In March 2025, Poland stopped registering asylum applications from...

Europe takes action: Subsidies, taxes, and policy pauses mitigate high fuel prices

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Conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine are prompting...

Meloni’s government imposes restrictions on non-Italian speakers and veils in schools

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On Thursday, the Italian government promulgated a decree capping...

“We must restore trust in democratic institutions,” says President of the French Economic, Social and Environmental Council

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During the September plenary session, the European Economic and...

France’s high court rules in favour of ending tax benefits for palm oil diesel

ASIA Theodoros Benakis - October 11, 2019

France’s Constitutional Council, the highest constitutional authority in the country, today ruled in favour of excluding palm oil from the list of biofuels that...

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

ASIA Theodoros Benakis - June 27, 2019

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

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

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis - June 21, 2019

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...

Governments meeting to tax aviation must act on climate crisis say NGOs

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis - June 20, 2019

Today’s conference of EU finance ministers and officials in the Hague to discuss ways to tax aviation and address its climate impact is a long overdue...