Gulyás Slams EU for Linking Recovery Money to Child Protection Law
Gergely Gulyás said that the EU’s attempt to link the disbursement of recovery funds to the issue of Hungary’s child protection law was “an extremely negative development”.
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Bee health: new data hub goes live
The EU Bee Partnership (EUBP) has unveiled a new online data platform that will play a crucial role in efforts to protect bee and pollinator health. The prototype platform is a ground-breaking tool that will bring together and visualise harmonised data related to bees and other pollinators.
African swine fever: campaign extended to new countries
EFSA is stepping up its efforts to halt the spread of African swine fever in Europe by expanding its campaign to a further nine countries.
Lithuania to receive immediate operational support from EASO
The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) could deploy up to 50 personnel, both in-country and via remote working, in support of the Lithuanian asylum authorities by the end of the year.
Soltész Meets Orthodox Patriarch in Greece
Miklós Soltész, state secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office, had talks with Ieronymos II, head of the Orthodox Church of Greece, and Konstantinos Vlassis, deputy minister for diaspora Greeks, in Athens.
Németh: Croatia Key Player in Building Up Central Europe
Croatia is a key player when it comes to developing central Europe, Zsolt Németh, the head of parliament’s foreign affairs committee, said at an event marking the start of Hungary’s presidency of the Visegrad Group, at the Hungarian embassy in Zagreb.
The Estonian legislation imposing an absolute bar on a prison officer remaining in employment
The Estonian legislation imposing an absolute bar on a prison officer remaining in employment when his or her hearing acuity does not meet minimum standards of sound perception without allowing it to be ascertained whether that officer is capable of performing his or her duties is contrary to EU law.
Cartel on the sale prices of trucks: the Court of Justice clarifies the courts with jurisdiction over actions for damages
In the absence, at the national level, of a specialised court for that type of action, an undertaking which made its purchases in several places may bring an action before the court within whose jurisdiction its registered office is situated.
The legality of any act of the EU institutions falling within the European Union’s energy policy must be assessed in the light of the principle of energy solidarity
The Court of Justice dismisses the appeal brought by Germany against the judgment of the General Court, which, in application of that principle, had annulled a 2016 Commission decision by which the conditions for access to the OPAL gas pipeline had been amended.
The Court of Justice provides guidance on the instances in which the Directive concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time does not apply to activities carried out by military personnel
That directive does not preclude a stand-by period during which a member of military personnel is required to remain at the barracks to which he or she is posted, but does not perform actual work there, from being remunerated differently than a stand-by period during which he or she performs actual work.