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On Monday the European Council is about to softly kill the main legislative part of the Farm to Fork and biodiversity strategy — all in the name of food security.

The dumpster fire at the European Parliament may be largely of the EU's own making.

One of the most striking features of this scandal is the fact that it was the Belgian police — working on this case for months — who spotted what was arguably hiding in plain sight, writes EU Ombudsman, Emily O'Reilly.

Belgian MEP Frederique Ries, vice-chair of the Renew Europe political group, sat on a board of a foundation fronting for Morocco — at a time when Rabat was lobbying MEPs to secure an EU trade deal.

To those of us who have been working for years to cast a light on EU corruption, this latest scandal is not a shock, or even a surprise — it's just the tip of the iceberg.

Six Russian fertiliser and chemicals barons will partly get off the hook on EU sanctions, in the first significant loosening of EU measures since Russia invaded Ukraine.

The ECB announced another rate hike on Thursday, but economists warn that increasing capital costs will hurt the EU's shift to renewable energy and energy efficiency.

The tax deal was part of a package, including joint aid to Ukraine, and which Hungary had blocked until Monday in the hopes of reducing financial sanctions over rule of law issues.

The plans include strengthening whistleblower protection, a ban on all unofficial parliamentary friendship groups (groups of MEPs discussing relations with non-EU countries), reviewing enforcement of code of conduct rules for MEPs, and new rules interactions with officials from non-EU countries.

The evidence shows the 'next Afghanistan' is not in the Middle East but in Africa, specifically West Africa, where religious violence, political corruption, weak states, and the devastating impacts of climate change have combined to create an unprecedented crisis.

EU leaders' bark will be worse than their bite on Russia sanctions at this week's summit, if disagreements drag out.

The proposal shortens the approval period for new renewable energy installations from twelve to nine months, and requires member states to determine so-called "renewables acceleration areas" where rapid deployment of renewables are allowed.

A dead body in a freezing river, spinal injuries after falling off a wall, a pregnant woman given a punishment beating after being forced back — this is what's happening on the EU's eastern border.

The European Commission says solidarity on migration remains — despite Paris refusing to relocate some 3,500 asylum seekers from Italy under a French EU presidency-inspired proposal to distribute thousands of people across member states.

It was the first time auditors checked such goals as a whole — and found major differences in how these priorities were incorporated into the 2021-2027 budget.

It is up to Ukraine to decide when to enter negotiations with Russia, EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said on Monday, commenting on speculations the West might push Kyiv to start talks with Moscow. "Ukraine will decide what to do. Our duty is to support them", he added when arriving at the Brussels meeting of EU foreign affairs ministers. Lithuania's minister Gabrielius Landsbergis added that speculation is "unhelpful".

Erdoğan wants Sweden to hand me over because he hates me — it's time for Nato to stop his juvenile and anti-democratic games.

Even some of the Kremlin-critical comments spread across Facebook were part of the disinformation effort, the Political Capital report found.

Recent research by the Bruegel think-tank warned that freelancers are, on average, at a much higher risk of poverty in old age than traditional employees. Here's how to fix this.

Last week I wrote that Mastodon was shitty, and for the second time in the very short life of this newsletter, I'm going to have to eat my own words.