Tag: Regulatory

Anti-green backlash hovers over COP climate talks – POLITICO

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This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM.

LONDON — World leaders will touch down in Dubai next week for a climate change conference they’re billing yet again as the final off-ramp before catastrophe. But war, money squabbles and political headaches back home are already crowding the fate of the planet from the agenda.

The breakdown of the Earth’s climate has for decades been the most important yet somehow least urgent of global crises,

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Michel Barnier calls for post-Brexit UK-EU defense treaty – POLITICO

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LONDON — The time is right for London and Brussels to negotiate a new treaty on defense and foreign policy cooperation, Michel Barnier, the EU’s former chief Brexit negotiator, told POLITICO.

Speaking to the Ex Files newsletter for its 100th edition, Barnier — a former French presidential candidate and key player in Britain’s painstaking divorce from the EU — said it was now in both sides’ interest to collaborate

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Is Kemi Badenoch still the future? UK Tories aren’t so sure – POLITICO

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LONDON — It’s been quite a year for Kemi Badenoch, propelled from little-known minister to Tory leadership hopeful, to Cabinet big-hitter and beyond.

The U.K. business and trade secretary used last July’s Conservative Party leadership contest to launch herself from relative obscurity to political stardom, and 12 months later finds herself firmly seated within the top tier of Rishi Sunak’s ministers.

For many, Badenoch is now the next great hope for British conservatism, her right-wing sensibilities, dry sense of humor

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Can a pan-European health data space transform cancer care? – POLITICO

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The COVID pandemic accelerated global research collaboration at an unprecedented scale2. In the race for a vaccine, scientists worked together across borders on genomic sequencing of variants3 and case reports to better understand and respond to the fast-evolving viral threat — highlighting the value of responsible data sharing4.

The European Health Data Space (EHDS), launched by the European Commission, aims to build on this momentum to transform access, use and sharing of health data within

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Who killed the COVID vaccine waiver? – POLITICO

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“Is that a direct threat? I don’t know.” The adviser to the Belgian prime minister spoke calmly as they recounted a lobbying phone call from 2021, but the contents of the conversation are extraordinary.

The call was from a spokesperson for Janssen, the Belgian-founded pharmaceutical arm of Johnson & Johnson (J&J) that developed the company’s single-shot COVID-19 vaccine. According to the adviser, the spokesperson warned them that if Belgium supported a radical proposal made by India and South Africa at

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Europe’s leadership in life sciences needs strong frameworks and partnerships – POLITICO

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Life sciences are integral to the European economy and its people. Over two years ago, this ecosystem had to rapidly come together, forging strong partnerships to deploy treatments at unprecedented scale.

This precedent should continue and be considered to aid people suffering from rare diseases. “Around 30 million people across Europe live with a rare disease1. On average, it takes six to seven years to obtain a correct diagnosis2 and over 40% of rare disease patients are

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How Romania flouts EU ban on bee-killing insecticides – POLITICO

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Nearly a decade after the European Union first restricted the use of seeds coated with bee-killing insecticides, Romania’s honeybees are still feeling the sting.

In one of the EU’s honey-production capitals, the government has been relying on the banned seeds to prop up its lucrative cash crop exports, something NGOs and beekeepers denounce as an egregious and routine violation of EU laws that is endangering one of the country’s most ancient trades and

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Law Society veröffentlicht zweite Ausgabe von „Blockchain: Legal and Regulatory Guidance“

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In Zusammenarbeit mit der Tech London Advocates (TLA) Blockchain Legal and Regulatory Group veröffentlichte die Law Society am 11. Januar 2022 eine zweite Ausgabe ihres rechtlichen und regulatorischen Leitfadens zu Blockchain. Marc Jones, Partner in unseren Teams für Handelsstreitigkeiten, Betrug und Wertpapiere, verfasste den Abschnitt über dezentralisierte autonome Organisationen.

Der Bericht befasst sich mit der zunehmenden Nutzung von Distributed-Ledger-Technologie (DLT) und Kryptoassets und Entwicklungen in den letzten 18 Monaten, die durch die Covid-19-Pandemie beschleunigt wurden, sowie mit den weiterreichenden Auswirkungen

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