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Fri, 03/08/2024 - 10:46
On International Women's Day, EUobserver took a closer look at the last five years of gender policy — has the EU been ambitious enough in achieving equality? What were the main hits and misses? And where needs more work?
Fri, 03/08/2024 - 08:00
New meta-analysis shows that the evidence that economic hardship causes populism is "overwhelming".
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 17:00
Europe's far right has chosen a Danish MEP who believes Muslims are rapists to speak in a showcase 'Spitzenkandidaten' pre-EU election debate next month — but stressed he is not their lead candidate.
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 16:43
Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni has accused the EU of "trying to control the world politically" as the bloc unveiled €200m in support for the East African country's businesses.
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 16:11
African climate negotiators are drawing up a range of strategies to ensure that elections in the EU and United States do not slow down the flow of climate finance ahead of the Baku COP summit in November.
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 13:30
Ursula von der Leyen has been confirmed as the center-right lead candidate to become the next EU Commission president, following June's elections. However, more than one-third of the EPP delegates did not exercise their vote at the Bucharest congress.
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 13:14
It is high time to step back to take a look at a wider picture —that takes into account a broad array of factors affecting the European agricultural market so that the impact of the Ukrainian imports is not overblown.
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 10:23
The death of dozens of Sudanese refugees after their boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea on 7 February exposes the devastating impact of Europe's outsourcing "migration management" to governments that do not protect victims of war.
Wed, 03/06/2024 - 19:27
What do an MEP and a US retired army general have in common? (Besides this podcast.) Both are looking to 2024 and asking, in their own way, what do we as a society want?
Wed, 03/06/2024 - 18:50
The centre-right European People's Party (EPP) has unveiled its priorities for the next parliamentary term, as European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is expected to get confirmed as the party's lead candidate in the June elections.
Wed, 03/06/2024 - 16:56
The European Commission has hailed its budget finance programme for Tunisia as having "yielded results on macroeconomic stability" — even as Tunisia's autocratic president makes plans to force its central bank to directly finance his government.
Wed, 03/06/2024 - 15:25
The European Commission is talking to Senegal following reports an EU-trained security force, meant to tackle cross border crime, was instead used to crack down on peaceful protestors.
Wed, 03/06/2024 - 15:09
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, backs her European People's Party proposals to offshore asylum abroad — in what appears to mimic a controversial UK plan to send people to Rwanda.
Wed, 03/06/2024 - 12:01
The Left group in the European Parliament has introduced a paid menstrual leave policy, allowing women to take up to three days a month without a doctor's note if they need it — following the example of Spain.
Tue, 03/05/2024 - 18:21
Russia is planning to sabotage a referendum on EU integration in Moldova, Chișinău's spy service has warned, as EU diplomats fear bad "surprises" also in the Western Balkans.
Tue, 03/05/2024 - 17:40
The EU's border agency Frontex has defended its position of not issuing an alert on an overcrowded fishing vessel that sank off the Greek coast last year, which claimed over 600 lives.
Tue, 03/05/2024 - 16:18
The European Commission has unveiled its first-ever defence strategy and investment programme — in a bid to reduce its dependence on the US and in response to the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Tue, 03/05/2024 - 15:51
Karl Kraus, the prolific Austrian journalist and satirist, once wrote: "There is only one thing worse than the shame of war: the shame of people who no longer want to know about it." That would now seem to include Europe.
Tue, 03/05/2024 - 13:25
The new rules will allow authorities to ban a product from the single market if it is found to have been made using forced labour, regardless of whether it is imported into the EU or manufactured within the bloc.
Tue, 03/05/2024 - 13:15
To state a plain truth: at present, Moldova does not have a justice system worthy of a EU member state; it is riven with corruption and lax and inconsistent standards, despite previous attempts at reform, writes Moldova's former justice minister.
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