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This Sunday Poles head to vote in the most consequential parliamentary elections since the partially-free elections in 1989 that turned a Soviet satellite state into a burgeoning democracy. Here is what's at stake.

MEPs in the environment committee approved new emissions rules for cars, with the final text weaker than the EU Commission initially had intended.

The EU has unveiled a "toolkit" based on migration, parents, youth and older people, after EU states raised concerns about the impact of an ageing population on public finances — but what does it contain?

Norway is leading a Western restart in science cooperation with Russia in the Arctic — despite a wider EU cordon sanitaire against Vladimir Putin's Mosow, in the wake of the Ukraine invasion.

Representatives from EU governments will discuss and vote on the European Commission's proposal to renew the glyphosate's market license for another ten years this week. But it remains unclear if there is a majority to approve the renewal.

The prospect of Palestinians fleeing the Gaza Strip towards Egypt appears to have spooked the EU commission into fast tracking a possible migrant busting deal with Cairo.

The reality of EU hydrogen expansion is a well-funded, highly-orchestrated greenwashing scam. Some 99 percent of hydrogen produced globally is in fact 'grey hydrogen', made using fossil fuels.

In her strongest wording yet, US secretary Janet Yellen said she supported a European proposal to use the hundreds of billions of seized Russian assets currently held by G7 countries.

Does anyone think a blank cheque to the country which made the Palestinians refugees will create fewer refugees? Or a blank cheque to their occupiers will create less resistance? Is the problem really that Israel has not used enough force?

"Cutting water, cutting electricity, cutting food to a mass of civilian people is against international law," said EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in Muscat.

A Polish ruling-party MEP has defended his Azerbaijan-friendly vote, even as EU support slips in the wake of its "ethnic cleansing".

Around 10,000 people in Brussels on Thursday took part in a nationwide strike against the 'Van Quickenborne bill' on restricting protesters' freedoms.

Acrimony over an EU Commission bill to detect child sexual abuse continues to mount, as EU officials brush away critical views of rights defenders.

Luxembourg elects a new parliament on Sunday. Whether PM Xavier Bettel remains in office — or be replaced by the country's first female prime minister — is unclear. The central issue in the EU's second-smallest state is the housing crisis.

Migration, terrorism and energy — three 'crisis' topics — have preoccupied European policy and their societies' view of their neighbourhood in northern Africa for a long time.

The EU needs teachers. 40 percent are over 50 years old, salaries are not attractive enough, classes are very large, and the work-life balance has become more problematic since the Covid-19 pandemic.

With Ukraine, the Balkans, Moldova and, with a longer timeframe, Georgia, the EU is looking to go from 27 member countries to 35-plus in a decade or less. How to get agreement about the way to do this?

Leaders from some 50 European countries will attend the third European Political Community (EPC) summit in Granada, followed by an informal meeting of EU leaders on Friday. What's on the agenda?

The UN has called on central banks to institute "more pragmatic policies to tackle inflation" as large parts of the world are "crushed" by debt, and wealthy countries risk another decade of austerity and recession.

House prices, mortgages and rents are strangling citizens across Europe, depriving 895,000 people of access to housing, as the cost of living crisis, the fallout from the war in Ukraine and the Covid-19 pandemic put ever-more pressure on people's pockets.