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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.

Bulgaria's BNT, Hungary's MTVA, Poland's TVP and Polskie Radio, and Serbia's RTS, all serve as mouthpieces of their country's governing administrations. The only exceptions in the region are public radio and television in the Czech Republic and LRT in Lithuania.

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.

A gift of 11 pistols shows who was who in Wagner's command structure in Sudan, as the mercenary group's mutiny poses questions for Russia's empire in Africa.

If the green transition occurs to the detriment of workers who will be laid off or replaced, if it exacerbates inequalities and poverty, and negatively affects our economies, societies, and social protection systems, it will lose support. It will fail.

A deep dive into what happened to the 20 individuals subjected to the first corruption-related sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Act 2016 in the US — and four conclusions.

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.

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.

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.

A persecuted religious minority are facing abuse in an EU-funded Turkish detention centre, according to witness testimony. They have been detained since late May after attempting to enter Bulgaria at an official border crossing point with Turkey.

On 24 June 2022, a massacre took place at the border between the Spanish enclave of Melilla. At least 40 people died, 80 disappeared, several dozens were injured and almost 500 were displaced and deported. But what has happened since?

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.