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The European Parliament won't disclose recent investments made in a luxury pension scheme for MEPs — despite demands made by the EU's administrative watchdog, the European Ombudsman.

If you watched Fox News last month, you may have heard that Ireland is planning to slaughter 200,000 cows to meet its EU climate goals. Of course, there was one big problem with the reporting: the claims were untrue.

German far-right party AfD has decided on a hardliner advocating for a “Europe of nation states” as their lead candidate for the upcoming EU elections. Meanwhile, it remains unclear whether the party will push for Germany to exit the EU.

July 2023 has broken multiple temperature records and is expected to be the hottest month ever recorded, according to the UN's World Meteorological Organisation and EU-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service.

Sub-Saharan migrants escaping racism and violence in Tunisia are reaching Italy in record numbers — despite an EU push to halt migration.

Fabio Mauri, the man behind DG MEME, a popular Twitter account with 100,000 followers poking fun at EU politics and policy-making, told EURACTIV that he is regarded as a "troublemaker" by European Commission's top management but that this does not put him off.

West African nations imposed sanctions and threatened force on Sunday (30 July) if Niger’s coup leaders fail to reinstate ousted President Mohammed Bazoum within a week, while supporters of the junta attacked the French embassy in Niamey. The 15-nation ECOWAS...

The largest party representing North Macedonia's ethnic Albanian minority offered to pull its ministers from the government to meet a demand from the opposition to clear the way for European Union membership talks.

A senior Ukrainian official reported heavy fighting in the northeast of the country on Sunday (30 July), with Kyiv's forces holding their lines and making gains in some areas.

Italy made an "improvised and atrocious" decision when it joined China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) four years ago as it did little to boost exports, Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said in an interview published on Sunday (30 July).

Niger's military leaders warned against any armed intervention in the country as West African leaders are set to gather in Nigeria's capital for an emergency summit to decide on further actions to pressure the army to restore constitutional order.

China hopes France can "stabilise the tone" of EU-China relations, vice-premier He Lifeng told a senior French minister in Beijing on Saturday (29 July), as European leaders debate how to "de-risk" but also cooperate with the world's second-largest economy.

Thousands took to the streets to protest against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Friday and Saturday (28 and 29 July) as the party held a convention to choose its candidates for European parliamentary elections next year.

Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, who remains active despite leading a failed mutiny against the Russian army's top brass last month, has hailed Niger's military coup as good news and offered his fighters' services to bring order.

Kosovo's government on Friday (28 July) suspended the license of the country's biggest private television broadcaster over a registration error, alarming journalists who accused the ruling party of an open war against free media.

The Group of 20 (G20) major nations failed on Friday (28 July) to agree on concrete targets to cut dangerous emissions, releasing only a statement that dismissed current measures to address climate change as "insufficient".

Despite the war it started in Ukraine and efforts by the West to paint Russia as a pariah state, Moscow can still count on support from several African, Latin American and Asian governments, including that of heavyweight China.

Mercenary boss Prigozhin tried to use Niger putsch to steal limelight at Africa summit, even though Wagner played no role in the coup, sources say.

The two-day Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg, which started on Thursday, was supposed to demonstrate Vladimir Putin’s enduring political influence in the continent. Instead, just 17 African leaders made the trip, fewer than half of the 43 who went to the first Russia-Africa summit in Sochi four years ago.  

With concerns over food security, inflation and the environmental impact of food waste becoming increasingly evident, the European Commission has proposed legally-binding targets to reduce food waste across the EU.