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Draft lowers planned excise rates on vapes and heated tobacco

Rapporteur Andrey Novakov (EPP, BG) and shadow rapporteurs will brief journalists on the update of EU air passengers rights rules, shortly after the vote in plenary on Wednesday.
Committee on Transport and Tourism

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Rapporteur Andrey Novakov (EPP, BG) and shadow rapporteurs will brief journalists on the update of EU air passengers rights rules, shortly after the vote in plenary on Wednesday.
Committee on Transport and Tourism

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It would be Slovakia's first US-designed reactor, as all previous ones were of Russian design

The country has seen seven snap elections in the wake of massive anti-graft protests in 2020

Filing the case, the Russian central bank said Euroclear had acted illegally in freezing the assets

Written by Branislav Stanicek.

In the context of the wars in Ukraine and other parts of the world, the increasingly global effects – material and political – of war make it more important than ever to measure the level of threats to peace, security and democracy around the world. The Normandy Index has presented an annual measurement of these threats since the 2019 Normandy Peace Forum. The results of the 2025 exercise suggest the level of threats to peace is at its highest since the index began, confirming declining trends in global security resulting from conflict, geopolitical rivalry, growing militarisation and hybrid threats. The findings of the 2025 exercise draw on data compiled in 2024 and 2025 to compare peace – defined on the basis of a given country’s performance against a range of predetermined threats – across countries and regions. Derived from the Index, 63 individual country case studies provide a picture of the state of peace in the world today.

Read the complete study on ‘Mapping threats to peace and democracy worldwide: Normandy Index 2025‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.

The EU's cybersecurity agency ENISA will also see a broader mandate and gain additional resources, according to a draft version of the plan obtained by Euractiv

Civic groups say the popularity of the ‘Bulgarian Christmas’ campaign reflects not generosity alone, but a healthcare system failing its youngest patients.

Plenary session, Strasbourg

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After an unsuccessful meeting on the Greenland issue on Wednesday, several European Nato states will send military delegations to the Arctic island. There is now also disagreement about the objective of a working group set up at the Washington meeting: according to US President Donald Trump, it will merely clarify technical details for the US takeover of Greenland. This has been vehemently contradicted in Copenhagen and Nuuk.

The situation in Iran remains tense. After the security forces violently suppressed the protests, which had been ongoing since December, people are no longer taking to the streets for now. Information is scarce due to the internet blackout. Human rights organisations have reported thousands of deaths and more than 10,000 arrests. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has called on Iranians to continue protesting and promised assistance.