European Disability Card ‘no game-changer for disabled people’
The European Parliament has officially adopted the European Disability Card and European Disability Parking card, though not everyone is happy.
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TikTok kills controversial rewards programme after EU threats
Chinese technology firm ByteDance has killed a controversial TikTok rewards programme amid threats from senior EU officials.
Macron aims to cement French influence in EU, lift party fortunes with landmark speech
French President Emmanuel Macron will outline his vision for Europe as a global power on Thursday in a speech he hopes will have the same impact as a similar address…
Euro MPs renew push for elimination of member state veto; accuse Hungary of ‘blackmail’
The majority of the European Parliament voted on April 24 in favour of a document that singles out Hungary over what it described as rule-of-law violations and criticises…
By the slimmest of margins, the US system has worked again
All of Europe that is not dominated by the Kremlin should rejoice in the passage of the long-delayed bill of assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan in Washington…
Green Deal champion Ribera to lead Spanish Socialists in the EP
Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister Teresa Ribera, a staunch champion of the European Green Deal, will be the new leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)…
French hard-right mysteriously immune to online reach reduction
Euro MP Nicolas Bay says he and his hard-right colleagues from France have remained immune to the reach-reduction phenomenon that has hit right-wing MEPs from other…
Forint wobbles boost euro’s appeal among German investors in Hungary
The volatility of the forint EURHUF has boosted support for introducing the euro among German investors in Hungary to its highest level in 13 years, a survey by…
ECR takes on Green Deal and China in new policy roadmap
The European Conservative and Reformists (ECR) group in the European Parliament has targeted China and the Green Deal in a roadmap for the next legislature of the…
LFI’s Panot summoned by police over alleged ‘apology of terrorism’
Mathilde Panot, one of the leaders of La France Insoumise Party (LFI), was summoned by the police for allegedly engaging in "apology of terrorism".
North Africa ramps up push-back against Europe on migration
A North African pushback has started against Europe over migration after Tunisian President Kais Saied told Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni his country “will…
EC threatens imminent shutdown of TikTok rewards service
"We suspect TikTok Lite could be as toxic and addictive as cigarettes 'light'," Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, said.
MEPs approve new law banning forced-labour products
The European Parliament has officially backed prohibiting goods manufactured with forced labour from entering the European single market.
EXCLUSIVE: Latvian MEP narrow favourite for ECR top-spot despite Meloni opposition
National Alliance representative Roberts Zile is likely to be formally selected for the role later today, though opposition to his appointment remains, mainly in…
Tusk questions call for Poland to host nuclear weapons
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his foreign minister Radosław Sikorski have indicated they need further convincing that Poland should seek to join NATO’s…
EU Left wants to ‘blackmail’ opposition with Green Deal
It comes ahead of a debate titled "The attack on climate and nature: far-right and conservative attempts to destroy the Green Deal and prevent investment in our…
French unions denounce Olympics volunteering as ‘disguised employment’
French labour unions slammed the use of 45,000 volunteers scheduled to work at the upcoming Paris Summer Olympics, labelling it "disguised employment".
Europe’s right must think positive if it wants to win
If there was one thing that everyone at this year’s National Conservatism conference could agree on, it was that European civilisation has gone badly wrong.
Two years into Ukraine war ‘EU still depends on Russian gas,’ says energy regulator
The European Union still cannot do without Russian liquefied natural gas, despite it being two years since the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, the EU Agency for…
EC quizzes TikTok over Lite app’s risk to children
Brussels is pushing ByteDance on whether it is respecting EU transparency and child-protection rules with its newly released app
Belgian PM takes flak over late response to NatCon event cancellation attempt
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has come under fire in Parliament for allegedly failing to act when Brussels mayors wanted to cancel the National Conservatism…
EU-funded textbooks helped radicalise Gazan children, EP resolution claims
European Union-funded textbooks helped to radicalise Gazans in the lead-up to the October 7 Hamas terror attacks on Israel, the European Parliament has stated in…
EU capital markets proposal is an EU power grab, member states say
A French proposal to further integrate the European Union's capital markets drew opposition from a majority of member states, who attacked it as a Brussels power…
Russian ‘interference’ at play ahead of EP vote, warns Jourová
June's EU elections are at major risk of Russian "interference", the European Commission's Vera Jourová has warned.
Firing blanks? ‘Belgian army’s ammo stocks at 7 per cent of capacity,’ says MP
"We can still go to zero per cent. Then [soldiers] have to shout 'bang bang' at exercises."
Opposition calls for boycott of Moldova EU referendum
The leader of Moldova's leftist opposition urged voters on Thursday to boycott a referendum on backing the country's drive to join the European Union, saying pro-European…
Croatia’s Homeland now kingmaker after snap elections backfire on PM Plenković
Croatia's Homeland party has emerged as kingmaker following the country's snap elections.
Polish President Duda lobbies Trump on Ukraine aid
Polish President Andrzej Duda had dinner with former US president Donald Trump over which they discussed the wars in Ukraine and Middle East as well as NATO members’…
Poles falling out of love with the EU?
According to the latest poll conducted by international think-tank More in Common across the European Union, just 51 per cent of Poles have a positive image of the…
Ahead of the Olympics, France to trial AI surveillance systems
The Parisian Police Department announced it will trial new so-called algorithmic video surveillance (AVS) systems at public transportation venues throughout Paris…