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Europe's steel industry is vital to the EU's industrial strength and long-term competitiveness. It also supports a crucial packaging ecosystem that provides essential goods to consumers across Europe. We must protect both.

In today’s edition: European leaders feed their edits into a new US–Ukraine peace outline, pressure mounts to diversify the Commission’s staff mix amid sharp imbalances, and the EU limps out of Belém after a bruising climate summit

27 November 2024 marked a historic moment: for the first time ever, the European Union appointed a Commissioner for Animal Welfare. One year later, it is the right time to look back and ask: what has been achieved for animals, and for citizens?

The Commission's new measures likely won't be enough, diplomats warn

The Commission says its Digital Omnibus aims to codify recent rulings of the Court of Justice but privacy experts point to other interpretations of case law

The policy was of dubious effectiveness from the start. It's now anachronistic and undermines the European sanctions mission

"The patients at the highest risk are the hardest to reach", explains public health advocate Stefan Janssens

Bud Darr, head of the Cruise Line International Association, says upcoming EU proposals will be key to whether the sector can reach its sustainability goals

Recent EU and US surveys show audiences still prefer news produced and edited by people, they believe human-led reporting is more credible, transparent and responsible

Spain’s Iberia, Portugal’s TAP among carriers suspending Venezuela flights

The result means parliament cannot vote again on a bill that deals with the same issue over the next 12 months

Ukraine's delegation also met with high-level officials from Britain, France and Germany

"It makes more sense to work on the existing proposal and focus on the truly crucial issues", Italy's PM stressed

Trump said that Zelenskyy ‘expressed zero gratitude for our efforts’

The European Union abstained during the debates and votes due to internal disagreements among member states

Zelenskyy said Kyiv is also preparing a Coalition of the Willing discussion early next week

French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday said that "the G20 may be coming to the end of a cycle"

"A man kills a woman every 2.5 days in France," read one placard distributed by the feminist collective NousToutes

It is seen as a crucial test of support for Dodik's nationalist party, which has been in power for nearly two decades