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Despite 35,000 citizens dying every year directly due to antimicrobial resistance in Europe, this silent pandemic is still too silent.

Jérôme Fourquet, director of opinion at Ifop Institute, believes that French society is more divided than ever. "The old, traditional conflict between right and left has for more than a decade been seriously challenged by new circumstances," he said.

A democratic Union of almost 30 democratic member states should not be subjected to the whims of one illiberal autocrat.

I found Budapest impoverished and decayed. Each time you visit Prague or Warsaw, the roads seem better, houses cleaner and cars more modern than last time. In Budapest, it is the opposite.

Just once in a while, a book comes along that zooms out instead of in, avoiding acronyms and actually trying to answer the main question many citizens have had for a long time: who takes the decisions in Brussels?

A corridor two floors below the Paul-Henri Spaak building in Brussels once led to the EU institutions. Today, it is used to store broken office furniture and sculptures celebrating the birth of the European Union by Spanish artist Cristóbal Gabarrón.

The European Center for Disease Control chief Andrea Ammon talks about communicating in times of crisis, and how to build trust when things calm down — reflecting on lessons learned during the Covid-19 pandemic.

While being strong supporters of democracy, young people are far from feeling naïve about the current state of democracies in their own countries, a survey of young citizens from Austria, Greece, Ireland, and Slovakia shows.

The European Medicines Agency is exploring ways to regulate how artificial intelligence is used to find and develop new drugs and medicines.

With 2 billion citizens slated to vote next year (including 400 million Europeans), 2024 might just be the biggest year for democracy ever – and we'll be there to cover it on a new website.

When an advertisement conveys incorrect information, such as depicting a baby in a dangerous sleeping position, consumers generally believe that advertisement images are crafted by experts — and therefore regard them as authoritative.

The threat of increasing far-right influence in the upcoming European Parliament has led progressive parties to call for a cordon sanitaire, but political scientists warn there are no easy solutions. "It's a bit of a chicken-egg situation," an expert said.

Look plausible, be on time, plan questions — these are my top tips for doing interviews after 20 years of meeting extraordinary people.

Stella Kyriakides, the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety on where we were and where we are going in terms of health policy and preparedness for the future.

Nurdle pollution is not a recent occurrence: the earliest reported sightings of plastic pellets on beaches date back to the early 1970s. Yet no specific legislation has been introduced since then.

Energy security has evolved drastically over the last couple of years. The EU's energy security toolbox, however, remained roughly untouched and left the Union paralysed.

Margaritis Schinas, the vice-president of the European Commission, has spun the EU's asylum and migration overhaul as the solution to problems facing member states. But Schinas's misguided optimism is at best — dangerous spin. At worst, it is deception.

How a more holistic policy approach could help the EU adapt to the health consequences of a changing climate.

From the rugged coastlines of the North Sea to the sun-drenched beaches of the southern Mediterranean, Europe faces a pervasive yet little-known environmental threat: nurdles — the overlooked issue in the plastic pollution debate.

Rapid technological advances have created an urgent need for international rules and norms — we should seize the opportunity to design international institutions for AI to shape fairer distributions of power and shared prosperity globally, writes Kenyan ambassador to EU.