European Union

Craeynest and Others
Environment and consumers
National courts have jurisdiction to review the choice of location of air quality measuring stations and to take all necessary measures against the national authority concerned

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU.

Krajowa Rada Sądownictwa (Indépendance de la chambre disciplinaire de la Cour suprême)
Law governing the institutions
Advocate General Tanchev: the newly-created Disciplinary Chamber of the Polish Supreme Court does not satisfy the requirements of judicial independence established by EU law

In an interview with EURACTIV Germany, Axel Salheiser, who is conducting research on right-wing extremism at the Institute for Democracy and Civil Society, spoke about the growing incidence of acts of violence by the far-right and the potential dangers of right- and left-wing extremist groups in Germany.

Political groups in the new European Parliament have started carving up the top jobs ahead of next week’s inaugural session. At an internal meeting held on Wednesday (26 June), each political group stated their first choices for positions of chairs...

Threats in the wider Mediterranean region and ongoing tensions between Rome and Paris are threatening Italy's geostrategic role in European and global defence in the region, experts have said in a report, also warning that climate change could further destabilise the region.

Artificial Intelligence has taken huge strides in the last decade. It can now recognise faces, coordinate self-driving cars or even compose music. W. Brian Arthur talked to EURACTIV Germany about why AI is "an enormous change for our society" and why it is important to regulate it carefully.

Roughly three weeks after the murder of Walter Lübcke, head of the regional government in the German city of Kassel, the presumed murderer Stephan E. has confessed to the crime and said that he acted alone and killed Lübcke because he was angry about his statements on refugee policy. Stephan E. is said to have contacts in the far-right milieu. How could things get so out of hand?

A man and a child lie dead in the water. The father had covered his daughter with his T-shirt to protect her and her arm is draped over his neck. The image of the two migrants from El Salvador who drowned in the Rio Grande has shocked the world - and put the spotlight on US immigration policy under President Trump once more.