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In a late success for the French presidency of the EU Council, negotiators from the European Parliament and the EU Council agreed to extend the rules on information accompanying the transfers of funds to crypto assets.

Welcoming Ukrainian refugees into schools and universities across Europe is a tremendous opportunity to prepare the country's youth on their European path, write Commissioners Mariya Gabriel and Margaritis Schinas, who detail the EU's support for member states and teachers.

The International Trade Committee gave its green light on Thursday to double the amount of Moldovan agricultural products exported to the EU tariff-free.
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Rewatch this EURACTIV Hybrid Conference where stakeholders discussed the policy tools that can strengthen EU security of supply. Addressed questions included: - How can gas supplies be secured in the most efficient and sustainable way, while at the same time ensuring the protection of EU citizens and industries? Is a holistic approach achievable? - What is the role of gas infrastructure? Can gas infrastructure operators connect Europe to the global market? - What solutions exist to transport and store renewables and low-carbon molecules over long distances with the existing and future LNG, underground storage and transmission facilities?

The European Commission aims to scale up renewables in heating and cooling as a way to phase out Russian gas, although industry sources say there is still much to do to ensure a level playing field with dominant fossil-fuel heating technologies.

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Transfers of crypto-assets will be traced and identified to prevent money laundering, terrorist financing, and other crimes, says the new legislation agreed on Wednesday.
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Ten consumer groups coordinated by the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) have accused Google of unfairly steering consumers to sign up for a Google account, allowing the company to harvest large amounts of personal data.

Hoping to achieve its 2024 target of producing 500,000 heat pumps a year, the German government is pushing the industry to make necessary investments amid fears it will end up like the solar panel industry.

The Czech Republic will take over the rotating six-month presidency of the European Union on Friday with all eyes on Ukraine, which has been battling Russian forces since February.

Green ammonia plays a prominent role in the 20 million tonne renewable hydrogen target of the European Commission’s REPowerEU plan. Now it’s time for the EU to put its money where its mouth is, writes Joel Moser.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo offered on Wednesday (29 June) to deliver a message from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Russian leader Vladimir Putin to try to boost peace hopes.

Ukrainian activists and politicians leaders have urged the European Parliament to reject plans to label nuclear and gas as ‘green’ investments, saying this would be a “gift to Putin”.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about EU lawmakers calling on Germany to ramp up arms shipments to help Ukraine win the war, three major Finnish companies announcing their exit from the Russian market, and so much more.

Trade unions reached an agreement with business associations on a work programme for the social dialogue 2022-2024 that should include legally binding measures to regulate telework and institute a right to disconnect on a European level.

EU environment ministers on Tuesday (28 June) agreed a "general approach" to new rules addressing global deforestation, with some admitting however that the scope of the regulation was too narrow. Campaigners, for their part, denounced a proposal with "more holes than a Swiss cheese".

North Korean hackers are most likely behind an attack last week that stole as much as $100 million in cryptocurrency from a US company, three digital investigative firms have concluded.

The Russian foreign ministry has told Norway it will take "retaliatory measures" unless it allows EU-sanctioned goods to resume flowing through Norwegian checkpoints to Russian settlements in the Svalbard archipelago in the high north, Reuters reports. Norwegian police said Wednesday a "criminal pro-Russian group" was guilty of hacking several public and private institutions, while reassuring people that no sensitive data had been stolen.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has said Moscow will reply in kind if Nato installs new military infrastructure in Finland or Sweden. "With Sweden and Finland, we don't have the problems that we have with Ukraine. They want to join Nato, go ahead," he said on state TV Wednesday. "If military contingents and infrastructure are deployed there, we will have to respond in kind and create the same threat," he added.

Increasingly, analysts — both inside and outside of Russia — are considering the possibility of the Russian Federation's collapse into a series of independent states. Who are the most likely candidates for secession in Russia's south, east, and centre?