The threat of increasing far-right influence in the upcoming European Parliament has led progressive parties to call for a cordon sanitaire, but political scientists warn there are no easy solutions. "It's a bit of a chicken-egg situation," an expert said.
Stella Kyriakides, the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety on where we were and where we are going in terms of health policy and preparedness for the future.
Energy security has evolved drastically over the last couple of years. The EU's energy security toolbox, however, remained roughly untouched and left the Union paralysed.
Margaritis Schinas, the vice-president of the European Commission, has spun the EU's asylum and migration overhaul as the solution to problems facing member states. But Schinas's misguided optimism is at best — dangerous spin. At worst, it is deception.
Rapid technological advances have created an urgent need for international rules and norms — we should seize the opportunity to design international institutions for AI to shape fairer distributions of power and shared prosperity globally, writes Kenyan ambassador to EU.
As representatives of the organic farming community, we call on the European Commission, the Council, and the European Parliament to collaborate in crafting a forward-looking policy that safeguards the progress of organic agriculture within our non-GM commitment.
The EU has reached an agreement on the due diligence directive, making large EU and non-EU companies accountable for their negative impacts on human rights and the environment — but with an exemption and some gaps at its core.
Many challenges remain before the EU's historically celebrated enlargement policy can be successfully revived, experts warn — after EU leaders managed to agree to open accession talks with Ukraine at the European Council in December.
In 2021, nitrogen dioxide pollution led to 52,000 deaths and short-term exposure to ozone led to 22,000 attributable deaths in the EU.
EU officials from the European Medicines Agency in Amsterdam are "extremely" upset by the prospect of living cheek by jowl with one of Europe's biggest brothels in future.
Following years of debates, a political agreement on the EU-wide asylum reforms was finally reached on Wednesday (20 December).
Viktor Orban insists EU membership is merit-based — which indeed it should be — but his own government has bluntly flouted the norms and values upon which the EU is founded, writes the central Europe director of Human Rights Watch.
European finance ministers have reached a provisional agreement on the bloc's spending and debt rules.
EUobserver interviewed the general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) to discuss labour migration, staff shortages and working conditions — in views that strongly clash with the EU Commission's plan to attract more legal migrants.
Attacks against commercial vessels in the Red Sea by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis risks destabilising the region, says the European Union. The Houthis also warned of escalation.
The European Commission has launched an investigation into the X platform, formerly Twitter, under new rules countering the spread of illegal content online.
Rights defenders are issuing dire warnings that the EU's asylum overhaul risks curtailing international protection standards.
After a bittersweet outcome from the final EU summit of the year, the Brussels Bubble will try this week to finalise new rules on fiscal rules and the pact on migration and asylum before the Christmas holiday break.
Younger MEPs are more proactive than others, but they vote in line with their older party members, according to a data-driven investigation by Novaya Gazeta Europe and EUobserver.
An EU ban on Russian diamonds can start from 1 January, after Vienna agreed to let Kyiv keep an Austrian bank under pressure over trade in Russia.
Austria is still "blackmailing" Ukraine using EU sanctions, the same way Hungary did — to protect a bank doing business in Russia.
The European Commission is hoping to reach a new agreement with Egypt in January as it steps up efforts to curtail irregular migration towards Europe.
The European Commission is praising Finland for shutting down its land borders with Russia despite reports prospective asylum seekers are being forcibly conscripted to fight in Ukraine.
Hungary's prime minister Viktor Orban told the EU summit he would consider lifting his veto on providing further funds to Ukraine — if the remaining frozen EU funds linked to concerns on Hungary's rule of law are unblocked.