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The lack of a compromise with Hungary on the €50bn four-year aid package for Ukraine is feeding frustration in Brussels, ahead of the upcoming extraordinary EU leaders' meeting. Expecting continued stalemate, a solution without Hungary is also being considered.

According to a new report by the EU auditors, the European External Action Service (EEAS) needs to provide better support to the Union's delegations abroad — with some policy fields not met with adequate staffing levels.

Sweden has urged all its citizens not to travel to Iran, which recently arrested a second Swedish national.

The European Commission is set to unveil on Wednesday (30 January) a proposal to extend its duty-free trade policy with beleaguered Ukraine — but some argue that quotas on certain imports would have a "catastrophic" impact on Ukraine's economy.

We can't continue with a situation in which people regularly working from home are six times more likely to work in their free time or are having their privacy routinely violated, writes general secretary of the European Trade Unions Confederation.

As multiple crises converge again, like they did in 1848-1849 — war, inflation, social inequality, recession — sometimes resulting in economic, social and political stagnation, new political nationalists seek to benefit.

Andreii Sydor places two Russian tank shells onto a concrete slab of what is left of his two-floor house at the very end of Druzhby street in the village of Novohryhorivka, some 35km from the frontline.

Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni has promised financial support to help African countries become major energy exporters — in exchange for curbing migration, at a summit in Rome on Monday.

Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni has promised financial support to help African countries become major energy exporters — in exchange for curbing migration, at a summit in Rome on Monday.

EU diplomats have redoubled calls for Iran to free their Swedish colleague, after Iran's prosecutor demanded the death penalty for espionage.

The EU Commission is reevaluating its funding to UNRWA in light of allegations of 12 staff involvement in the 7 October attack against Israel. Despite the international pressure, Belgium, Ireland, Spain, Denmark and Norway will continue their funding.

By 2030, 35 million buildings in the EU will be either renovated or demolished under the Green Deal — yet there is still no directive to determine the extent of asbestos contamination in Europe, the leading cause of workplace fatalities.

The EU is divided. Foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has rightly favoured a more pro-human rights course, as have Spain, Ireland and Belgium, while Germany has looked the other way in the face of manifest violations of international humanitarian law.

EU's appetite for gas drives €205bn new investments, according to NGO Global Witness analysis, based on Rystad Energy data.

As EU leaders gather this week to discuss aid for Kyiv, ordinary Ukrainians continue to face the barrage of indiscriminate shelling, and Russia ratchets up its war rhetoric, EUobserver reporter Nikolaj Nielsen is traveling across Ukraine, meeting ordinary citizens.

EU leaders will gather in Brussels for an extraordinary council on Thursday (1 February) to try to agree on the €50bn four-year aid package to Ukraine, after Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán blocked all compromises in December.

Italy is considering a new law which will profoundly redefine the country's geographical-administrative organisation — making it more federal, like Spain or Belgium. But is it the League's plan for a separate north, refurbished?

The International Court of Justice on Friday ordered Israel to take immediate steps to limit Palestinian deaths in its assault on Gaza, in a major victory for South Africa that sets a legal precedent for future conflicts.

Spain's most senior judicial body has only been operating on an 'interim' basis for the past six years — prompting rule-of-law concerns in Brussels

Germany's pro-business coalition party the FDP now cites "unreasonable bureaucratic hurdles" in the EU's proposed supply chains directive, in a major and unexpected U-turn, writes the associate children's rights director at Human Rights Watch.