European Commission drops bid to make ‘hate speech’ an EU crime
Brussels is instead weighing a directive on online "incitement to violence and hatred" that would need only a qualified majority of member states to pass.
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Uneven enforcement blunts EU sanctions on Russia
Companies are routing restricted goods through member states with looser customs checks, according to the European Union's auditors, who have also faulted the European…
Brussels clears Volkswagen’s bid for sole control of Europcar
The European Commission has waved through the German carmaker's buyout of its partner in the loss-making French rental group as Volkswagen pushes ahead with deep…
Irish Government says EU budget talks cannot ignore Ukraine funding
Dublin, which holds the rotating Council presidency, has pointed to more joint EU borrowing as the most likely way to plug Kyiv's budget hole next year.
Eurozone ministers weigh two-horse race to succeed Lagarde at the ECB
The Netherlands' Klaas Knot and Spain's Pablo Hernández de Cos are the sole contenders, as EU leaders seek to fill the post before France goes to the polls.
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NATO chief says Europe is ‘no saint’ over Russian LNG purchases
Rutte noted that both the US and Russia were nuclear superpowers and that it was important both countries had a decent relationship.
Italy demands single EU voice in Ukraine peace talks
Rome has complained of overlapping meetings and phone calls with Moscow, warning that a divided Europe plays into the hands of those who want the war to continue.
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EU budget plan shields farmers and makes competitiveness pay for the cut
The Irish presidency’s compromise trimmed €141 billion from the Commission’s proposal, though net contributors still found it too big and none of the proposed…
Brussels bets on chip designers after Chips Act misses production target
The European Commission has put €525 million behind a new design platform for start-ups in a sector where EU firms earn less than 1 per cent of global revenue.
Brussels sidelines most auditors’ fixes for next EU budget
The European Court of Auditors has found that the European Commission fully took up one of the 28 improvements it proposed for the 2028-2034 budget, leaving money…
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Homelessness NGO hits out at Eurocrats’ reluctance to relocate to gritty Brussels North district
This pushback drew an angry rebuke from Freek Spinnewijn, director of FEANTSA, the European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless.
Montenegro nears EU membership as Croatia’s demands loom
The European Commission expects accession talks with Podgorica to close by the end of the year, though bilateral disputes with Zagreb and 27 national ratifications…
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Google’s Gemini chatbot may breach EU copyright laws
The advisory opinion stems from a case brought before Hungarian courts by website operator Like Company against Google Ireland, part of the Alphabet group.
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Brussels takes crisis preparedness into primary schools and revives 72-hour kits
The European Commission unveiled four non-binding guidelines on November 3 and proposed an annual EU Preparedness Day from 2027.
EU court rules ‘disproportionate’ sentences cannot block European arrest warrants
The case concerned a man jailed for seven years in Romania for importing three grams of cannabis and four MDMA pills into the country.
Eurogroup opens nominations to succeed Lagarde at the ECB
Eurozone finance ministers are due to weigh the names on November 9, with three of the six seats at the top of the central bank now in play.
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Slovenian PM lashes out against Brussels policies: ‘An EU has emerged that must save itself from itself’
“When we were deciding to join the EU, no one imagined that in any of its member states or in the Union as a whole it would be possible without consequences,”…
Brussels sides with Polish Government in constitutional court stand-off
The Commission has backed parliament's choice of judges but stayed silent on the suspension of the tribunal's president by one of them.
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EU funding for Spanish rail safety under scrutiny after latest high-speed crash
The second deadly crash on the line this year, after 46 people died near Adamuz, Córdoba province, on January 18.
EU military helicopter crash in Bosnia kills Italian personnel
A Chinook flying for the European Union's peacekeeping mission came down near Brčko with 15 people on board.
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EU and Canada meet in Montreal as capitals rein in von der Leyen’s ‘associate membership’ plan
Member states led by Germany stripped the label from the summit declaration, replacing it with a pledge of “ever closer association” short of membership.
ECB holds rates despite inflation alarm as Lagarde prepares early exit
The pause came hours after Christine Lagarde announced she would leave the bank in February, three months after vowing to stay at the helm through the storm.
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Outgoing EPPO chief Kövesi accuses Greece of ‘most blatant’ attempt to intimidate EU prosecutors
She singled out a dispute over the renewal of the mandates of three Greek European Delegated Prosecutors as the clearest example of pressure on the independent body.
Lagarde announces early ECB exit as succession race opens
The former IMF chief is to leave the European Central Bank on February 7, 2027, nearly nine months before her eight-year term was due to end.
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Kaczyński says Poland could threaten EU with leaving to get change
“We have a clause in the EU treaty which determines the process of leaving the EU. It begins with a process of negotiation which could be started”.
Airbus open to joining British-Italian-Japanese fighter jet programme
The European plane maker, which represented Germany and Spain in the collapsed Franco-German project, says a tie-up with GCAP is one of several options on the table.
India and Europe accelerate trade ties but investment remains the big unknown
One year after the EFTA agreement came into force, India is attracting new European business projects while Brussels prepares its own free trade deal.
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Brussels unveils plan to transform Frontex into central deportation hub with 30,000-strong corps
It was presented by European Commission Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen and Magnus Brunner, Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration.
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Eurozone mortgage demand slumps as ECB rate rises bite
Lenders forecast an even steeper drop in the final quarter, as EU housing ministers prepared for another meeting on a crisis Brussels can only watch.
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EU renews sanctions on Swiss former colonel Jacques Baud over Russian TV appearances
Citing his appearances on Russian television, including RT, and alleged dissemination of pro-Kremlin narratives about the war in Ukraine.