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The whole world will be watching to see how the EU delivers on its global commitments, Greenpeace says. The UN biodiversity conference is beginning next week, two years after the last summit secured a global agreement to protect 30 per cent of nature by 2030, known as 30×30.COP16 – the 16th conference of the parties to the convention on biological diversity (CBD) signed in 1992 – is taking place in Cali, Colombia, from 21 October to 1 November. After the historic ‘30×30’ goals agreed at COP15, the major focus will be on how countries can actually fulfil this pledge in the…

This week’s episode of EU Confidential is a show about nothing. As in: Brussels’ endless lame-duck inertia. Sure, there’s still lots of yadda yadda yadda, but no real action coming out of the EU institutions despite multiple global crises (leaders at this week’s EU summit discussed migration, sure, but left Brussels having taken no concrete decisions on how to tackle it). Host Sarah Wheaton dissects the reasons for the hold-up — and why it matters — with POLITICO’s Barbara Moens and Nick Vinocur, as well as with Aaron McLoughlin, a seasoned Brussels lobbyist with deep experience working in the Parliament…

Keir Starmer’s official spokesperson told journalists Thursday: “We will continue to challenge China on issues that are in the U.K.’s national interest … whilst also seeking to build a pragmatic and strategic approach with China, looking for areas of cooperation where they exist.” However, Reynolds’ comments on the sidelines of Monday’s international investment summit will add to the impression that Labour is prepared to get closer to China than may have been anticipated before the election, as the new government pushes desperately for growth to get it through a tricky set of economic circumstances.  Some industry figures view the U.K.’s…

At a hearing last week, the Bank of Italy, while broadly favorable, suggested the government’s plan was too vague and optimistic. The question remains whether Italy can keep it up: Seven years is a long time, and future governments may think differently.  “Certainly I remain concerned about the underlying growth story,” said Balboni, noting among other problems Italy’s well-documented demographic decline. “But that’s a long term challenge.” France, meanwhile, has benefited less from the NGEU funds. Around 60 percent of its €100 billion post-pandemic recovery plan came from national funds, not from the EU.  Slowly but surely, that borrowing has…

European leaders grimly welcomed the news that the Israel Defense Forces had killed Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader and architect of the Oct. 7 attacks, and expressed hope it could lead to a cease-fire in Gaza. “His death is certainly significantly weakening Hamas,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday at a press conference after the European Council, a regular gathering of the leaders of the EU’s 27 member countries. The news of Sinwar’s death in an IDF strike broke during the summit. European Council President Charles Michel said Sinwar was “responsible for the suffering of people…

Supporters of the bill contend that public arguments against having children are part of purported Western efforts to weaken Russia by encouraging population decline. Russia’s lower house of parliament has approved a bill outlawing ‘propaganda’ that discourages people from having children, the latest in a slew of restrictive laws as the Kremlin tightens control over society.The new legislation, which requires two more readings in the State Duma and the upper house’s vetting before being sent to President Vladimir Putin for final approval, criminalises spreading information that advocates voluntary childlessness and makes it punishable by fines of up to five million…

Reflecting a harsher tone on migration from EU leaders after a surge in support for right-wing parties, the final statement also called for “determined action at all levels to facilitate, increase and speed up returns from the European Union, using all relevant EU policies, instruments and tools, including diplomacy, development, trade and visas.” The first diplomat and one other EU diplomat said they now expected the European Commission to work on legislation that would facilitate deportations from the bloc, create a legal framework to set up processing centers outside its borders and explicitly allow countries to invoke security to shut…

But Thursday evening in Brussels, Macron tried to douse the controversy by tackling his government and the media during a press conference at the end of an EU leaders’ summit. Ministers “must respect the rules and be ethical, and not share comments that are either truncated, false or taken out of context,” Macron told reporters. The French president said he was “stupefied” to read stories about what he allegedly said. “I speak enough about the situation in the Middle East and I don’t need ventriloquists,” he said. The French government is headed by the conservative Prime Minister Michel Barnier and…

Diplomatic sources tell Euronews that the latest escalation in Lebanon has changed the mood music among leaders. A summit of EU leaders in Brussels on Thursday – the first since Israel expanded its offensive into southern Lebanon – ended with repeated calls for de-escalation in the Middle East, the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza, and condemnation of Israel’s recent attacks against UN peacekeepers.But according to diplomatic sources, leaders’ stances on Israel’s operations – once deeply divided – have started to converge since Israeli forces expanded their offensive into southern Lebanon, targeting the UN peacekeeping troops of UNIFIL, which…