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What is the status of the infringement procedure against Romania due to high pollution in Bucharest?
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Virtually any Bucharest inhabitant can smell that something has burned during the night. This is confirmed by the air quality monitoring platforms such as Airly:
Air pollution in Bucharest ...
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In what specific way has the the EU "turned [its] rules upside down and inside out" on medicines in Northern Ireland?
In response to UK government accusations that the EU has been inflexible on medicines under the Northern Ireland protocol (see e.g. Boris Johnson's charge on 30 cancer drugs) the EU ambassador to the ...
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Did the European Commission start an infringement procedure related to the quality of one or multiple EU members health systems?
Note: I will use Romania as an example in my post, but the question is general (EU level).
Environment-related infringement procedures are something rather usual in the EU. Just to pick an example, ...
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Why are alcohol beverages generally exempted from displaying nutritional facts/ingredient list within EU?
This is related to this question, but applied within European Union.
According to this source, EU does not impose nutritional facts or ingredient list display for alcoholic beverage:
Alcoholic ...
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Can an EU country government extend exception list for freedom of expression?
By the end of 2017, a Romanian NGO financed some banners that can be easily interpreted as against vaccination (like this one - the first line says "vaccines are not safe").
According to this article,...
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Why do the USA and the European Union treat GMOs so differently?
According to the sources cited within this paragraph, there is a scientific consensus that "currently available food derived from GM crops poses no greater risk to human health than conventional food, ...
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