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European lawmakers regulating the risks of artificial intelligence are likely to face resistance from EU states ahead of negotiations later this year and possibly even among their peers ahead of a plenary vote.

The potential for teleworking in the EU is estimated to be around 40 percent — where is it heading, where is it more widespread, and why?

"Africa has to unite behind a single agenda on debt resolution. We know what China wants, we know what the US wants, we know what the World Bank wants, but we don't know what Africa wants."

Acts of sabotage on wind farms or the underwater electricity grid are likely to be carried out as 'grey zone tactics', state-sponsored sabotage may be disguised as a civilian accident, or carried out from a leisure yacht or fishing boat.

New analysis by Greenpeace has ranked the affordability of public transport in 30 European countries — concluding that in most places prices are too high.

The EU Comission plans to extend the sanctions regime that it uses to punish third countries for human-rights abuses — to include corruption.

Illegal pushbacks of migrants and asylum seekers has fully resumed following Croatia's entry into the border-free Schengen area, according to Human Rights Watch in a new 94-page report.

On 15 May, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) will elect its next leader. Just like five years ago, the contest is not without controversy, with member states divided over prospective candidates.

'Sheltered workshops' for the disabled apply lower salaries, show lower career development and promotion opportunities and lack of job stability, and the latest EU strategy does not identify best and worst practices.

The European Central Bank has raised rates repeatedly since July last year to rein in inflation, and analysts expect the bank to raise it once again — although experts are divided on how big the rise should be.

Lithuania border guards must be properly trained, the European Commission has said — after Lithuania amended its state border law to allow volunteers to patrol alongside its national guards.

The EU Commission has outsourced its merger policy to a consultancy which counts Google as its best friend. And it's not the first time the Commission has hired consultants with a vested interest for policy advice.

EU budget commissioner Johannes Hahn is set to travel to Budapest on Tuesday (2 May) as negotiations to unlock billions of EU funds, held up because of concerns over judicial independence, made some progress last week.

Rules requiring the EU's border agency Frontex to suspend operations in member states where rights are being violated "are not fit for purpose", said a European Commission official.

Where now for Germany? A hybrid of the best parts of the Dutch and Spanish systems seems a likely forward, since both have been proven to work without incurring the wrath of other Europe member states

Around 35 million buildings will need renovation or demolition in the next decade. A task that will expose millions of workers to asbestos.

Turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections on 14 May will show whether Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's decade of relentless state interference with the media has paid off. Or whether a new generation of journalists finally taste freedom?

Nearly half of active disabled people of working age are not in paid employment. And yet they face extra costs each year, earn less, and if they work, they risk losing their disability benefits.

Russia is gaining power in the Central African Republic as the EU pulls out, amid similar developments in neighbouring Sudan.

In the Czech Republic, the extravagant promises of Chinese investment never materialised and the former president Miloš Zeman's sycophancy toward Xi Jinping provoked a wide revulsion. In contrast, Slovakia has avoided a real debate about its relationship with China.