The president of the European Commission delivered her annual State of the Union speech to Parliament in Strasbourg this week. Unsurprisingly, the war in Ukraine and energy prices featured prominently.

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As energy prices hit unprecedented levels across the world, what tools are available to the EU and its member states to support citizens and businesses and control the spiralling costs? A new episode produced with the radios stations of our EU-wide network...

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How is the EU’s fishing industry managed? To what extent does the bloc’s Common Fisheries Policy achieve its goals and where does it fall short? What are the obstacles to sustainability in this sphere? In this episode, we follow French member station euradio’s investigation on the ground – or rather, in the water.

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Brussels’ acclaimed ‘Save Gas for a Safe Winter’ package sets the stage for a European gas strategy this winter.
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In the last week, Sofia and Skopje have brokered an agreement that looks like it may finally bring the EU enlargement impasse to an end. And further West, many member states have been battling an unprecedented heatwave.

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In light of the risk of Russia ceasing gas deliveries to the EU – particularly given Gazprom’s current, supposedly temporary, shutdown of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline – energy security remains high on the agenda for several of our member stations. Listen to the news of the week in Europe as seen by our European radio network.

The Czech presidency got off the ground this week, with the inaugural speech to plenary in Strasbourg. As ever, there are a lot of meaty issues on the to-do list.

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Almost a year after the European Commission presented its 'Fit for 55' climate package, the other institutions are just on the point of getting down to negotiations. Identifying a common position among member states proved painful in places...

EU membership gets closer for some, but the outlook is hazier for others: the much-discussed question of whether to grant Ukraine and Moldova EU candidate status is at the top of many radio stations' agendas this week… and is there light at the end of the tunnel for the Western Balkans?

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This week, we ask journalists from around the Euranet Plus network how they think the seismic events Europe has had to contend with over the past two years have changed the EU or its citizens' perceptions of it.

If one thing is for certain, it is that the EU's role in these crises has not left its citizens indifferent.

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