EU nominees fall victim to mounting Green Deal acrimony Welcome to EURACTIV’s Green Brief, our weekly selection of energy and environment news from across Europe. To subscribe, follow this link. You can also subscribe to our daily newsletter here and to our comprehensive weekly update here. Political tensions surrounding... EU set to unlock frozen funds for Hungary as it seeks Ukraine support The European Union is considering unlocking billions of euros for Hungary that were frozen over rule-of-law concerns as it seeks to win Budapest's approval for aid to Ukraine including a start to membership talks for Kyiv, senior officials said. Kevin McCarthy ousted as House Speaker in historic vote A handful of Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Tuesday (3 October) ousted Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy, as party infighting plunged Congress into further chaos just days after it narrowly averted a government shutdown. Fico sticks to anti-Ukraine stance, prefers exclusion from EU group In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Czechia, Slovakia and Austria introducing controls at their borders, Sweden stepping up its fight against gang violence, and so much more. EU ‘has given too much to the market’, French Greens top candidate says "An ill wind is blowing against ecology. It is in these conditions that we are approaching the European elections", warns Marie Toussaint, MEP and head of the list of the French Greens (Europe Écologie - Les Verts, EELV) for the June 2024 elections, in an interview with Euractiv France.
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