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EU leaders gathered in Brussels to talk over the EU’s role in the world. Their focus was on Ukraine and on the situation in the Middle East, following the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime. They also exchanged on the situation in Moldova and Georgia, as well as on the latest progress on enlargement.
A new EU-approved Flight Emissions Label will be available to passengers from next summer, offering them a trustworthy methodology for calculating flight emissions. The label will protect passengers from misleading greenwashing claims made by airline operators.
The European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2024 has been awarded to Venezuela’s Edmundo González Urrutia and María Corina Machado. They were praised for their pursuit of justice and democracy in Venezuela following contested presidential elections there in July.
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