European Union

Electronic data processing has become integral to all areas of modern life - business and industry, the world of employment, schools and leisure activities. Commentators look at how far on the process of digitalisation is and what must be done to ensure that it is beneficial rather than detrimental.

The parliament in Rome on Wednesday passed a new security and immigration decree with a vote of confidence. It comprises tougher regulations for migrants and is intended to boost security in cities. Italian journalists, however, doubt that it will fulfil this purpose.

An American missionary has been killed while attempting to convert the Sentinelese tribe. John Chau, 26, had travelled by boat to North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean, but the inhabitants shot him with arrows, leaving him fatally injured. No visitors are allowed on the island as a governmental measure to protect the natives living there. Commentators discuss whether they need to be protected.

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) Paris Ile de France welcomes the Commission's desire to create an harmonized framework for cross-border conversions, mergers and divisions, but has reservations about the approach favored by the Commission.

Europe stands to avoid €200 billion in healthcare costs every year and significantly reduce premature deaths if the EU ends up adopting an ambitious climate change policy for 2050, according to the European Commission's long-term strategy.

A group of sixteen European energy companies including France’s EDF, Germany’s E.ON, and Denmark’s Ørsted, have proposed introducing a carbon price floor at European or regional level, as a way to the speed up the transition to a low-carbon economy.

China, currently engaged in a trade war with the United States, is seeking to strengthen its ties with Spain and Portugal as other European Union members are trying to restrict Chinese investments.

The Greens have demanded an EU parliament code of conduct probe against a group of MEPs following an EUobserver investigation on Moroccan lobbying.

British government and EU lawyers have heaped scorn on the idea that Britain could unilaterally revoke its Brexit process.

A survey of 12 EU states ranks Finland as the place where people of African descent experience the most abuse, followed by Luxembourg and Ireland.

EU funding of military research will not be without consequence. It will likely fuel an arms race.