Greek prosecutor orders investigation into deadly floods A prosecutor for Greece's top criminal court has ordered a probe into the causes and handling of floods triggered by a storm that killed at least 15 people, swamped houses and destroyed infrastructure in Greece last week, semi-state Athens News Agency said on Wednesday (13 September). Delsaux: HERA has taken steps to make pandemic preparedness transparent As the EU’s Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) is approaching its second birthday, director-general Pierre Delsaux told Euractiv in an interview that they are taking transparency of their work seriously despite persisting worries. Locals fear disaster as North Macedonia’s Lake Prespa recedes The lake of Prespa, two thirds of which belong to North Macedonia and the rest to Greece and Albania, has lost 7% of its surface area and half of its volume between 1984 and 2020, NASA has said. Bisphenol A detected in almost all Europeans, EU agency finds Bisphenol A (BPA), a hormone-disrupting chemical used in food packaging, is present in almost all Europeans' bodies, posing a potential health risk, the European Environment Agency said Thursday (14 September). Von der Leyen’s SOTEU: Key takeaways and reactions This week, EURACTIV’s Beyond the Byline podcast brings you a breakdown of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s annual State of the European Union (SOTEU) speech on Wednesday (13 September). In her final SOTEU address under the current mandate,...
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