EU votes to ban 'burger' labels from veggie substitutes, critics slam 'hot dog populism'
Europe • Oct 8, 2025, 2:41 PM
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EU lawmakers voted on Wednesday to ban the term "veggie burger" and limit food descriptions – such as steak, escalope and sausage – to products containing meat as part of a proposed law to protect farmers.
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Ukraine's Zelensky says Russia aims to sow 'chaos' with energy strikes
Europe • 1:18 PM
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President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of wanting to sow "chaos" in Ukraine by launching strikes on his country's energy grid and railway infrastructure, in comments published Thursday.
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German MEP Andresen: 'Even people close to Macron don’t really understand what he is doing'
Europe • 10:22 AM
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As France wrestles with an unwieldy political class, spiralling economic crisis and unraveling political order, German MEP Rasmus Andresen, Green Party and ECON member, views the country’s political and economic crises not as an insular French problem, b
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German federal police will in future be allowed to shoot down drones
Europe • 9:15 AM
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Germany will grant police the power to shoot down rogue drones like those that have disrupted airports across Europe and that some European leaders have attributed to a hybrid war being waged by Russia.
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What the EU's new biometric border rules mean for non-EU travellers
Europe • 7:20 AM
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Non-EU citizens travelling to and from the Schengen area will now have to pass through a new biometric Entry/Exit System (EES), which starts operations from Sunday. The new system removes the requirement to manually stamp passports and instead creates di
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