Hannah Kriwak
The European Commission is being sued for the first time for granting a lithium mine in Portugal so-called “strategic project” status under the bloc’s Critical Raw Materials Act, allegedly without pursuing sufficient environmental assessments.
Pessimistic fears about the future are driving calls for a more assertive and better-resourced EU, according to the latest Eurobarometer poll.
The three areas of improvement needed, according to the Luxembourg-based European Court of Auditors (ECA), are diversification of trade partners, more domestic production, and recycling, reusing and substituting.
The European Court of Auditors estimates that despite more instruments to increase ‘own resources’ revenues, member states contributions to the next 2028-2034 EU budget will increase by 48 percent.
A new report on Tuesday to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day calls out EU member states for not addressing antisemitism sufficiently due to inadequacies in monitoring and recording.
Some 22 EU countries currently give tax breaks to climate-damaging meat products, but removing these reductions could cut food emissions by up to five percent, a new German study has found.
THIS WEEK: India trade deal, US-EU relations and Amazon hearingEU Council president António Costa and commission president Ursula von der Leyen are visiting India this week to finalise a trade agreement while MEPs in Brussels will discuss the EU-US trade deal and the next long-term EU budget.
The European Parliament has defeated a mostly rightwing and far-right motion of censure against the commission — for the fourth time since Ursula von der Leyen took office in December 2024.
The European Parliament overwhelmingly back existing air passenger rights on delays, luggage and terms and conditions — but further negotiations with the European Council seem unlikely to yield a compromise.
The European Commission’s updated Anti-Racism Strategy has drawn sharp criticism from civil society, who say it failed to target anti-immigrant rhetoric.
The EU-Mercosur trade deal is set to pass its first hurdle on Wednesday despite another major protest by farmers outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Far-right parties have teamed up to bring forward a motion of censure against the European Commission over its handling of the Mercosur trade deal.
Total billionaire wealth in the EU reached €2.4 trillion by late November, exceeding Italy’s entire GDP of €2.2 trillion and approaching France’s €2.9 trillion economy, a new Oxfam report found.
Discrimination against Roma is still common all over Europe, with far-right parties using an ‘us versus them’ narrative to gain support in elections.
The last 11 years have been the hottest ever recorded. The world is fast approaching the 1.5°C limit set by scientists, according to Europe’s centre for weather forecasts.
German law professor Werner Schroeder is suing his government after police forcibly checked his ID at the Austrian-German border. He argues these controls violate EU law and undermine the Schengen system of borderless travel.
The European Court of Auditors says the EU’s proposed €409bn competitiveness fund is too vague to guarantee transparency and traceability of funds. Auditors warn the proposal could repeat mistakes made with the pandemic recovery fund.
Housing costs across the EU kept climbing in late 2025, new Eurostat figures show, with prices up 63 percent over the past decade, and rents 21 percent higher.
The Trump administration ordered a US withdrawal from over 60 international organisations, including the UN climate summits, drawing sharp EU criticism over weakened global cooperation.
Cyprus is one of the bloc’s smallest and most remote members. It takes over the rotating EU presidency in January for a continent mired in the Ukraine war, migrant deportations and economic insecurity.