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Find out how the European Parliament is working to protect people travelling by plane, rail, ship and bus.
Committee on Transport and Tourism

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The European Court of Justice ruled on Thursday that the jailed Catalan leader, Oriol Junqueras, had parliamentarian immunity as an MEP "at the time of the official declaration of the results and enjoy, from that time, the immunities attached to that status". This decision will consequently affect the situation of the Catalan leaders, Carles Puigdemont and Tomi Comín, who were also elected as MEPs in the European elections.

EP negotiating team reached a deal with the Council on Wednesday on EU-wide rules to help crowdfunding services function smoothly and foster cross-border business funding.
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs

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EP negotiating team reached a deal with the Council on Wednesday on EU-wide rules to help crowdfunding services function smoothly and foster cross-border business funding.
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs

Source : © European Union, 2019 - EP

Poland risks blundering out of the EU with a new gagging law on judges, former EU Council president Donald Tusk and others have warned.

One of two Russian diplomats expelled from Germany over the killing of a former Chechen rebel in Berlin has been identified as Yevgeny Sutsky, an officer in the GRU military intelligence agency, the Moscow Times reports. The investigation was done by the Bellingcat website. Sutsky was also trying to recruit German politicians to lobby in favour of the North Stream 2 gas pipeline, the newspaper reported.

Dutch farmers and construction workers blocked roads with tractors on Wednesday (18 December) and gathered outside the offices of national broadcaster NOS in the latest of a series of protests over environmental pollution rules.

Some members of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the party of the German chancellor Angela Merkel, are revealed to belong to a shadowy military network with neo-Nazi links, the Guardian writes. In the wake of the assassination of pro-migration CDU politician Walter Lübcke in November 2019, the German state security warned of the infiltration of white supremacists in security and military circles.

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In an all-night meeting in Brussels, ministers at the agriculture and fisheries council failed to meet their own targets and deadlines on sustainable fishing, under pressure from their national fleets, the Guardian writes. They decided to continue overfishing despite the EU's 2020 deadline to set quotas for sustainable levels of fishing. George Eustice, the UK fisheries minister, said the EU has an "outdated method for sharing quota".

The daughter of Uygur rights advocate and academic Ilham Tohti received the 2019 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought on his behalf in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday. Tothi is serving a life sentence in jail. "This is not about fighting China, this is about human rights," Jewher Tohti said. "To the members of parliament, use your laws to hold Chinese government officials accountable," she added.

Croatia’s National Television (HRT) hosted the first and last presidential debate with all 11 candidates competing to get to the second round of the presidential elections this Sunday. Even though the incumbent president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (HDZ, EPP) has  been under...

Questions about family wealth and EU values still hang over the new Croatian commissioner for democracy and demography, Dubravka Suica.

Romania’s government plans to take responsibility for the 2020 budget, using a procedure that avoids parliament debates in the process of adopting the law. This would be the first for Romania, but the centre-right government said this is the only...

An agreement between the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and caretaker socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is "within reach", paving the way for broader government  coalition talks. EURACTIV’s partner EuroEFE reports.

While many EU members have been arguing whether the Chinese company Huawei should be banned from their national 5G networks, EU candidate Serbia is beefing up its ties with China. Does this pose a security risk to the European bloc?

Bulgarian MEP Angel Dzhambazki has offered a highly qualified apology for his remarks about the chairman of the Transport Commission, Karima Delli, whom he described as “French-Algerian” and Ismail Ertug, described as “Turkish-German”. “I am a Bulgarian and my roots...

33 MEPs, including Ska Keller from the Greens, have sent a letter to the Greek government expressing their concern about increasing incidents of extreme police violence against citizens. “We express our deep concern about the outbreaks of extreme police violence...

An Italian tribunal has asked the parliament to authorise an investigation into former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini over allegations of kidnapping. According to the magistrates, he refused to let the migrants on Italian coast guard ship Gregoretti disembark in July....

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will on Thursday (19 December) demand the right to hold a new independence referendum, challenging Prime Minister Boris Johnson to keep the United Kingdom together as he grapples with its coming split from the European Union.