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MEPs adopted a series of proposals to reinforce the right of mobile EU citizens to vote and stand in European elections in the EU country in which they reside.
Committee on Constitutional Affairs

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has come under fire for publishing and then unpublishing a video containing what appears to be a very high estimate of killed Ukrainian military officers. The backlash came after von der Leyen said...

Saving energy is key to fighting climate change and reducing the EU's energy dependency. Find out what MEPs are doing to reduce consumption.

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Saving energy is key to fighting climate change and reducing the EU's energy dependency. Find out what MEPs are doing to reduce consumption.

Source : © European Union, 2022 - EP

The EU Commission has concluded that Hungary's reforms in the fight against corruption are inadequate and has consequently recommended freezing 7.5 billion euros in funding for Budapest. At the same time, it has spoken out in favour of adopting Hungary's Recovery and Resilience Plan, which is linked to the disbursement of 5.8 billion euros in Covid aid. Europe's press comments as the EU finance ministers get ready to vote on the two recommendations.

The German Bundestag has passed a resolution recognising the Holodomor in Ukraine, in which several million people starved to death in 1932 and 1933, as genocide. Gabriela Heinrich, an MP for the governing Social Democratic Party, said that the famine was "wanted and planned" by Stalin. Commentators take different views on the resolution.

Britain recorded peak migration levels in the twelve months leading up to June 2022. Around 500,000 more people arrived in the UK than left it - a record that is putting pressure on the Tories, who promised to restrict immigration. But what about the positive effects?

Spain's Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska is under fire over a new investigation into the events at the Moroccan-Spanish border crossing in Melilla on 24 June. At least 23 people died and dozens went missing when migrants attempted to storm the border fence and cross into the Spanish exclave. The Minister of the Interior insisted at the time that the Spanish police had acted according to the law.