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Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada is in the "advanced" stages of negotiations with Europe on joining its new defence partnership — prompted in large part by growing concern about Russia's war in Ukraine and U.S. President Donald Trump's ongoing talk of annexing Canada.

A parliamentary committee is calling on Canada to hold tech giants accountable for publishing false or misleading information online, especially when it is spread by foreign actors.

Environmental groups have started legal action against the European Union’s executive branch in a bid to block a move to include natural gas and nuclear power generation on a list of sustainable activities.

The European Union presented plans on Thursday to fundamentally revamp its policies on dealing with critical raw materials, imposing limits on imports from countries like China while unleashing subsidies and other financial incentives to ramp up home production.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced more support for Ukraine and a new hydrogen agreement with Europe on Tuesday, March 7, 2023, alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

A devastating earthquake that toppled buildings across parts of Turkey and neighboring Syria has revived a longstanding debate locally and in neighboring Cyprus about a large nuclear power station being built on Turkey’s southern Mediterranean coastline.

Many key goals in a proposed agreement on protecting the planet's biodiversity remain unsettled as debate continues over who will pay for the ambitious pledges, delegates at a UN meeting in Montreal said on Monday, December 12, 2022.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says Canada is issuing a challenge to the rest of the world to expand the use of carbon pricing in the fight against greenhouse gas emissions.

The European Union on Friday, September 9, 2022, intensified its mission to shield the population from dramatically increasing energy prices that threaten to plunge millions into cold and poverty over the winter as tensions mount with Russia over the war in Ukraine.

The European Union’s next steps for addressing the continent’s worsening energy crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are expected to be unveiled next week, the European commissioner for energy said on Tuesday, September 6, 2022.

Water shortages across the continent, from France through Italy, Spain and beyond, are creating a critical situation.

Natural gas started flowing through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe on Thursday, July 21, 2022, after a 10−day shutdown for maintenance — but the gas flow remained well short of full capacity and the outlook was uncertain, which leaves Europe still facing the prospect of a hard winter.

European Union lawmakers voted on Wednesday, July 6, 2022, to include natural gas and nuclear in the bloc’s list of sustainable activities, backing a proposal from the EU’s executive arm that has been drawing fierce criticism from environment groups and now looks set to trigger legal challenges.

European lawmakers will decide on Wednesday, July 6, 2022, whether fossil gas and nuclear energies can be included in the EU’s list of sustainable activities, in a cliff−edge vote targeting climate change but heavily influenced by the war in Ukraine.

The European Union’s executive arm moved on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, to jump−start plans for the 27−nation bloc to abandon Russian energy amid the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine, proposing a nearly 300 billion−euro ($315 billion) package that includes more efficient use of fuels and faster rollout of renewable power.