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France has collected more DNA profiles for police use than any other member state. As of the end of last year, it had amassed almost 6.5m profiles.

Trading fishing rights with Moscow has become a heated foreign policy pickle in the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic.

The EU has been receiving whistleblower tip-offs on Russia-sanctions violations, but European capitals are doing little to share information on frozen assets.

Forget about Poland and Hungary, Bulgaria's democratic backsliding is accelerating.

The search for an elusive "partnership of equals" between African states and the European Union remains a slow, unsteady and increasingly challenging work in progress.

We asked European Commissioner for Economy Paolo Gentiloni and Co-President of the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament Philippe Lamberts if Europe can fight inequality and protect the planet without growth.

An EU that renounces the economic growth dogma could more easily reduce its dependence on energy and materials from Russia and China, thus gaining resilience. Reducing its security dependence on the US, however, is a tougher nut to crack.

MEPs called for new revenue sources, including a financial transaction tax, a digital levy, a levy on share buybacks, a tax on cryptocurrencies, and a fair border tax to be paid by firms that do not pay workers enough.

The European Parliament's rules do not recognise paternity or maternity leave for its MEPs — who lose their right to vote if they are absent.

From a human point of view GDP is not a great measure. Yet it's been the economic dogma for decades now. But what should we use then? This is what we'll be exploring (among other things) in Growth Week.

We sat down with Kate Raworth, the renegade thinker and author of Doughnut Economics to talk about prosperity beyond growth.

The Swedish EU presidency is bargaining away rights and punching holes in EU law as means to convince front-line member states like Italy and Greece to take on more responsibilities when it comes to processing asylum claims.

The European Commission has long experience in regulating and policing complex industries, such as artificial intelligence. Even the big EU member states do not have such capacities and skills anymore.

EU sanctions have begun to put on record Russia's looting of Ukrainian art, alongside abduction and brainwashing of Ukrainian children.

MEPs call on the EU Commission to propose a directive to ensure that European trainees have decent working conditions, including social protection and fair remuneration.

This Sunday the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia will resume peace talks in Brussels. Some say even it might even lead to peace treaty.

The EU fears that Chinese and UAE firms could be supplying weapons components to Russia, new sanctions indicate.

Flawed assumptions and a "disturbing" lack of transparency characterise an industry campaign against reusable packaging, academics and campaigners warn

Russia appears to be ratcheting up its aggressive tactics after one of its jet fighters intercepted a Polish patrol plane in a Romanian-led operation coordinated by Frontex over the Black Sea.

Western Balkan governments have announced a series of new gas pipelines, terminals and power plants, supposedly to steer the region away from Russia. If implemented they will hamper the region's transition to renewables, and aggravate economic and security risks.