According to the USDA’s Economic Research Service, the EU’s so-called Green Deal and Farm to Fork initiative could cause food prices to rise upwards of 17 percent.

Source: https://1010wcsi.com/hoosier-ag-today/commentary-by-kip-tom-food-security-supports-our-national-security/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=commentary-by-kip-tom-food-security-supports-our-national-security

As part of its plan to become climate neutral by 2050, the European Union has adopted a wide range of measures, from reducing energy consumption to sharply cutting transportation emissions and reforming the EU’s trading system for greenhouse gases.

Source: https://www.columbian.com/news/2023/jun/15/eu-nature-restoration-law-narrowly-survives-attack-by-conservative-lawmakers/

As the EU’s High Representative Josep Borell made clear, the difference between the supportive message of “Slava Ukraini!” and a Leopard tank is that the former is free, while the latter costs €10 million.

Source: https://www.euronews.com/2023/04/08/opre-roma-tired-of-being-let-down-roma-are-now-standing-up-for-themselves

Australian exporters are blocked from using the term in Europe but the EU’s trade representatives also pushed for the ban to extend into Australia’s domestic market.

Source: https://www.perthnow.com.au/business/wine-producers-see-eu-trade-deal-collapse-c-12439290

Being in office allows a member nation to help set the EU’s tone and the bloc’s agenda.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/2023/05/15/ioc-puts-trust-at-risk-by-seeking-ways-to-allow-russia-to-compete-at-olympics-eu-official-tells-ap/

Brussels has made efforts to expand the EU’s role in disaster response and is building a permanent fleet of firefighting aircrafts that can be dispatched in vulnerable countries.

Source: https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-countries-cut-firefighter-jobs-despite-climate-crisis-new-data-shows/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

But he noted that “the EU accession path is a marathon, not a sprint” and that the EU’s 27 member countries must agree unanimously for Ukraine to join one day.

Source: https://ktar.com/story/5431000/high-level-kyiv-visit-aims-to-deepen-eu-ukraine-ties/

But stricter rules of origin, set out in the UK and EU’s free trade agreement, will increase that requirement to 65% in 2024, meaning the company’s EVs could be hit with a 10% export duty.

Source: https://qz.com/stellantis-ev-production-uk-brexit-rules-1850445619

"But that is a tension with the EU’s right to protect the integrity of their single market.”

Source: https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/watch-no-threat-to-future-of-the-union-what-did-doug-beattie-and-mike-nesbitt-actually-say-about-the-northern-ireland-protocol-3988521

Concerning immigration, the minister referred to “two pillars” of Hungary’s position which include the protection of the EU’s external borders and a regime requiring the processing of asylum applications outside the EU.

Source: https://www.budapesttimes.hu/hungary/eu-affairs-minister-calls-hungary-eu-membership-unquestionable/

Copernicus, the EU’s earth observation flagship program, provides free environment and climate obtained data from a constellation of satellites called Sentinels, which monitor the Earth and its several ecosystems on a 24-hour daily basis.

Source: https://businessmirror.com.ph/2023/04/30/for-better-response-to-natural-disasters-and-climate-change-phl-eu-partner-in-e10-m-copernicus-space-program/

Counter-terrorism constitutes one of the pillars of the EU’s External Action and the distinction between the terrorist group Hamas and Palestinian civilians living in the Gaza Strip must be made clear.

Source: https://www.euronews.com/2023/10/20/is-brussels-paying-attention-to-malaysias-vocal-support-of-hamas

Days later – as the overseas territory was from becoming the only land border marked by a hard Brexit – Madrid and London on an agreement in principle that championed the idea of incorporating the British territory into the EU’s Schengen area.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/02/spain-ready-for-any-scenario-as-gibraltar-talks-with-uk-falter

Despite such dire predictions, European Commission spokesperson Eric Mamer said at a briefing on Monday that he trusted the intelligence of Hungarian voters to distinguish between the EU’s real aims and those claimed by Orbán.

Source: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/nation-world/story/2023-11-22/an-anti-european-union-billboard-campaign-in-hungary-turns-up-tensions-with-the-orban-government

EU’s move to prolong the GSP+ until 2027 will also benefit two other Asian countries—Pakistan and Sri Lanka—along with five others, namely Bolivia, Cape Verde, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, and Uzbekistan.

Source: https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/brussels-nod-gsp-implications-bongbong-marcos

Frontex’s latest figures did not include almost 13 million Ukrainian refugees who were counted at the EU’s external borders between February and December.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/01/13/333000-attempted-enter-eu-illegally-2022-over-80-per-cent-men/

“Germany is going back on months of negotiations … this is a challenge to the EU’s decision-making process that we rarely see,” said Eric Maurice, of the Robert Schuman Foundation, a European think tank.

Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/motoring/germany-upsets-eu-over-internal-combustion-car-ban/

Ghana’s ongoing commitment to sustainable forest management aligns with the EU’s Forest Law Enforcement, Governance, and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan.

Source: https://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2023/09/07/eu-commends-ghana-on-efforts-in-combatting-illegal-timber-logging/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=eu-commends-ghana-on-efforts-in-combatting-illegal-timber-logging

Google parent Alphabet, Facebook owner Meta and TikTok parent ByteDance also were classified as online “gatekeepers” subject to the strictest requirements of the 27-nation EU’s Digital Markets Act.

Source: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/technology-news/2023/09/eu-targets-apple-amazon-alphabet-bytedance-meta-microsoft-in-next-phase-of-digital-crackdown/

He argued that the EU’s final report seemed to sustain the same biased stance as their preliminary report released in March, casting doubts on its objectivity.

Source: https://leadership.ng/presidency-rejects-eus-allegations-of-electoral-misconduct/