# Negotiations

Deregistered vehicles, largely diesel cars, at a car recycling plant in Stuttgart, Germany, 01 March 2018. Politicians and economists are now discussing possible consequences after the verdict in Leipzig ruled in favour of a diesel car ban in order to create cleaner air. Photo: Marijan Murat/dpa
Deregistered vehicles, largely diesel ca […]
Climate change

Air pollution main environmental health hazard in Europe

Around 422,000 premature deaths in 41 European countries were linked to air pollution in 2015.
1 month ago
The clocks of an installation ("Time field") by the artist Klaus Rinke in Duesseldorf, Germany, 24 March 2017. In the night on Sunday, the clocks will be set forward to summer time - from 2:00 to 3:00am. Photo: Federico Gambarini/dpa
The clocks of an installation ("Time fie […]
Eurozone

EU ministers: More time needed on daylight savings reform

Survey to which 4.6 million people responded, revealed 84 per cent of Europeans want to stop moving the clocks by an hour under daylight saving time.
1 month ago
The Co2 treatment plant of the Vattenfall power plant with Co2 separation in Schwarze Pumpe (Brandenburg), taken on 05.09.2013. Since 2008, experts in the pilot plant have been working on the separation of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from flue gas. As a result, the climate killer can be stored underground (Carbon Capture and Storage - CCS technology) or otherwise used. In an interview with dpa, the CEO of VE Technology Research GmbH talks about results and problems. Photo: Arno Burgi / dpa (for dpa interview on 06.09.2013)
The Co2 treatment plant of the Vattenfal […]
Climate change

EU auditors: Efforts lagging in carbon capture, renewables

EU action to support carbon capture and storage and innovative renewables has not succeeded, according to a new report from the European Court of Auditors.
2 months ago
Demonstrators wave EU and UK flags in London (UK) on 16.01.2018 in an anti-Brexit demonstration in front of the British Parliament in Westminster. Photo: Tom Nicholson / Zuma Press / dpa +++ (c) dpa - broadcasting +++
Demonstrators wave EU and UK flags in Lo […]
Brexit, Eurozone

People’s Vote plans biggest rally to push for new Brexit referendum

Organizers hope over 100,000 people will gather to hear lawmakers from across Britain's political divide calling for a fresh referendum on Britain's negotiations to leave the EU.
2 months ago
ARCHIVE - 17.01.2018, Great Britain, London: An EU flag and a British national flag are blowing in front of the British Parliament in the Palace of Westminster. (to dpa "British hospital carriers warn of possible Brexit episodes" on 21.08.2018) Photo: - / Xinhua / dpa +++ dpa broadcasting +++
ARCHIVE - 17.01.2018, Great Britain, Lon […]
Brexit

Britain, EU look for new ways out of Brexit impasse

Ahead of a Brexit summit on Wednesday, the EU has urged the UK to make "concrete proposals" to break a stalemate in negotiations.
2 months ago
Migrants rescued from the Mediterranean on board the Aquarius, a boat belonging to the NGO Doctors Without Borders, off the Italian coast, 27 June 2017. Thousands of migrants were rescued over the last few days as they made their way from Libya to Italy. Photo: Lena Klimkeit/dpa
Migrants rescued from the Mediterranean […]
Migrants

Four EU countries to take in Aquarius migrants

France, Portugal, Germany and Spain struck a deal to take in migrants from the rescue ship Aquarius, after they are brought to Malta.
3 months ago
21.09.2018, Great Britain, London: Theresa May, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, speaks after the informal EU Summit in Salzburg on Downing Street. One day after the confrontational EU summit in Salzburg, British Prime Minister Theresa May of Brussels called for new Brexit proposals. Photo: Jack Taylor / Pool Getty Images / PA Wire / dpa +++ dpa broadcast +++
21.09.2018, Great Britain, London: There […]
Brexit

May to meet divided cabinet as Brexit pressure grows

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May prepares for a crunch meeting this week aimed at ending the stress inside her cabinet over Brexit.
3 months ago
20.09.2018, Austria, Salzburg: Against the backdrop of the Hohensalzburg Fortress, German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and Charles Michel (r), Prime Minister of Belgium, head for the group photo during the informal EU summit. On the second day of the summit, EU leaders want to discuss the Brexit Roadmap and better protection of the EU's external borders. Photo: Dirk Waem / BELGA / dpa +++ dpa broadcasting ++
20.09.2018, Austria, Salzburg: Against t […]
Brexit

Brexit to dominate second day of EU Salzburg meeting

EU leaders lined up to tell May she needs to give guarantees on the Irish border before they will grant her the Brexit deal.
3 months ago