EU leaders at their summit on Friday sidelined Poland and Hungary over a wider dispute on migration and asylum. Slovenia's prime minister Robert Golob explicitly laid most of the blame on Budapest.
Spain will assume the six-month rotating presidency of the EU Council from Sweden this weekend — with PM Pedro Sanchez immediately travelling to Kyiv to express its support for Ukraine. But a July election in Spain may complicate matters.
After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, EU diplomatic relations with China have become more complex than ever, and economic concerns have heightened — as the EU does not benefit as much as Beijing from the relationship. What's the strategy now?
Local entities such as trade unions and municipalities express concern over inadequate consultation under the JTF, thereby threatening workers' futures.
The European Commission is expected to present a proposal for the EU's withdrawal from the highly-controversial Energy Charter Treaty — which locks-in fossil-fuel investment — following demands from member states earlier this month.
While the failed Wagner military mutiny was the 'elephant in the room' on Thursday at the EU summit, several European leaders explicitly mentioned Belarus.
In the wake of mass drownings off the Greek coast, EU leaders in Brussels plan to clamp down on smuggling, even though former efforts made matters worse.
New EU rules on asbestos are seen as a victory by members of the European Parliament who have demanded a general overhaul of EU's asbestos policies.
In recent decades, the EU has focused so much on job creation that it has forgotten about the quality of those jobs — with major differences between regions and between men and women, a new study reveals.
The internal military crisis seen in Russia the last weekend will be "the elephant in the room" at the EU summit, when leaders discuss the war and how to use Russian assets for its reconstruction, an EU official said.
Elections in 2024 are due to take place from 6 to 9 June, but transnational lists and common rules are very unlikely to take shape before that.
Two years (and two crises) after the EU Child Guarantee, the targets for reducing child poverty seem further away than ever. The guarantee is supposed to set minimum standards for housing, health, education and health — but is not legally-binding.
Tuesday's committee vote showed there was no majority to reject the nature restoration law — but the final vote on the report also fell short of the majority required to receive the committee approval.
Central bankers met at the European Central Bank's annual symposium in Sintra, Portugal, to discuss 'persistent' inflation.
The human rights chief of the European Union border agency Frontex said monitors can only observe Greek coast guard vessels that take part in Frontex operations.
Auditors warn of insufficient financing data in member states' climate plans to meet the EU's 2030 climate and energy targets.
With environmental legislation perceived as excessively burdensome by various member state capitals, farmer groups, business lobbies, and some groups in the EU parliament, what does that mean for the Green Deal ahead of the 2024 European Parliament elections?
US secretary of state Antony Blinken on Sunday said the turmoil caused by the unprecedented challenge to Russian president Vladimir Putin by Wagner mercenaries may not be over yet and could take weeks or months to play out.
The World Bank is expected to find $200bn [€183bn] in extra financing for developing countries by taking on more risk — but critics said promises made did not represent "anything new" and failed to address global debt problems.
The EU has urged Kosovo to back down in a dangerous confrontation with ethnic Serbs seeking more independence.
A French plan to "catalyse private investments" in the developing world launched in Paris was met with indifference onstage by president of Kenya William Ruto.
The strategy should have begun with an honest reflection on what went wrong and on the distorted perceptions which have shaped German foreign relations since 1990.
Years of stability and development have also brought new opportunities because, in the background, Morocco has long been developing its green energy and agriculture along with key infrastructure linking it to global markets.
Leaks of the EU Commission's proposal for plants produced by new genomic techniques have prompted concern regarding transparency, consumer rights, and co-existence with existing organic agriculture in the EU.
Budapest violated EU asylum laws by forcing people to first go to Hungarian embassies in Serbia and Ukraine before initiating a claim for international protection, ruled the European Court of Justice.
Now summer is officially here, temperatures are rising and the risk of wildfires increases — how prepared are EU member states to respond to such emergencies?
Budapest needs to explain its role in the transfer of Ukrainian prisoners of war from Russia, said the European Commission.
Prison terms of up to three years and fines of up to €1m for Italians who use foreign surrogate mothers in draft new Italian law.
Member states need to agree on the proposed numbers among themselves and with the European Parliament by 4 December, so that next year's budget can be adopted accordingly.
EU environment ministers have agreed a joint position on a nature-restoration law, sending a message to divided MEPs to get their act together.
Consuming more than 350 grammes of meat per week can harm health and environment, according to new public nutrition advice from the Nordic Council. A Swedish minister quickly refused to follow the advice.
Acceptance of refugee abuse in Europe is alarming, a top human rights defender has said after a Greek sinking tragedy.