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The EU is failing to quell the surge in Islamic extremism on the other side of its shores in Libya, as Libyan authorities have started a campaign to persecute Christian…
EU leaders pushed for a coherent strategy to underpin Europe-China relations on April 18 in Strasbourg.
The European Parliament on April 18 approved sweeping reforms to the European Union's carbon market in hope of bringing down emissions, though Dutch industrialists…
Italian head of state Sergio Mattarella said on April 18 that the EU needs to revise its migrant treaties so that arrivals are handled jointly rather than by single,…
It will be very difficult for Europe to refill its gas storage to last year’s levels after the continent ended the winter heating season with relatively low stockpiles,…
A Belgian lobbyist is suing European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen over SMS exchanges she allegedly had with Pfizer's chief executive, asking whether…
In most of Europe, and for most of its existence, the European Commission has been considered a force for good.
Unilateral action on trade by European Union member states is unacceptable, a European Commission spokesperson said on Sunday, after Poland and Hungary announced…
One of the key pledges of the UK’s Brexiteers was the promise to sort out unchecked migration swamping the UK. "To take back control,” as the slogans pronounced.
Europe's external borders need fortified walls.
The US is getting it in the neck from its European allies over recent intelligence leaks about the war in Ukraine.
Qatargate accused Marc Tarabella will go back to work as soon as he is released from prison under electronic surveillance, Belgian press reports today.
Europe's border-control-free zone, Schengen, collapsed during the Covid pandemic as national governments retrenched within more comfortable confines in the belief…
Although France’s influence on the world stage has shrunk, French Presidents have a habit of still taking on larger-than-reality personas
Belgian police, accompanied by German police, “raided” the European People’s Party (EPP) headquarters in Brussels on April 4 though the party itself said agents…
A spy, according to the New Oxford American Dictionary, is “a person who secretly collects and reports information on the activities, movements and plans of an…
Car number plates might seem a flimsy pretext for a geopolitical standoff but a renewed rise in tensions in Kosovo have been triggered by a dispute about where cars…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hinted at rewriting the EU’s market access agreement with China on March 30 in the latest sign of a shift towards…
The wine and beer industries successfully killed off the first European Commission attempt to slap warning labels on their products – back in 2007 – and the…
European Union officials, and those of the European Commission in particular, reputedly have cushy jobs.
The European Union is by law prohibited from arming Ukraine, though anyone watching the manoeuvrings of the Brussels institutions would be forgiven for thinking…
There used to be an EU official whose sole job consisted of trying to convince non-EU countries to drop the death penalty.
Europe is struggling to cope with the influx of migrants and the existing system for housing them is close to collapse, according to a group of Euro MPs.
What weight do personalities have in the design and implementation of European Union policies?
From a European immigration perspective, the situation in the Maghreb countries of northern Africa looks grim.
People will revolt against any attempt to turn the European Union into a superstate, the Polish Prime Minister warned on March 20.
Joint purchasing can seem an efficient solution to many problems facing EU Member States and their citizens.
Whatever the outcome of the battle by French President Emmanuel Macron to push through an increase in his country’s pensionable age, he is likely to emerge weaker,…
Wars do not end in peace negotiations but at the ballot box, argues the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) in the introduction to its latest Ukraine war…
The former chairwoman of the European Parliament sub-committe on Human Rights, Marie Arena, has gone public for the first time to defend her actions with regard…
