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Europol, the EU's policing agency, released a report on Tuesday (18 September) in which they warned that EU data protection laws may lead to an increase in cyber-extortion.

Paris Region Key Figures 2018 lays out a panorama of the region’s economic dynamism and social life, positioning it among the leading regions in Europe and worldwide.

As EU Head of States were gathering 19 September in Salzburg (Austria) for an informal meeting, both Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and President of the EU Council Donald Tusk said they will promote the idea among member states of an EU-Arab States summit on migration next February as well as an additional meeting on Brexit next November.

The European Commission's rationale for reforming Frontex is flawed.

Much has been made lately about free speech and whether or not to deny populists and nationalists a platform or to let them speak. Luxembourg’s wise old foreign minister found the solution to the dilemma last week: shout, shout and let it all out.

The Bulgarian government decided today (19 September) to take the side of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban against the possible Article 7 procedure requested by the European Parliament.

Denmark, the EU's cleanest country on paper, just got confirmation that its top bank perpetrated Europe's biggest-ever money-laundering scandal.

European Council president Donald Tusk on Wednesday in Salzburg, Austria announced that the EU aims to hold an summit with Arab League states in February 2019 in Egypt. The announcement follows a joint visit with Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz to Cairo where they held discussions with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Tusk wants to deepen relations with Egypt, including in the area of migration.

EU Council president Donald Tusk on Wednesday warned EU leaders ahead of the Salzburg summit to stop the blame-game over migration. "We can no longer be divided between into those who want to solve the problem and those who want to use it for political gain," he said, pointing out this year fewer than 100,000 migrants arrived in the EU, less than in the years before the 2015 migration crisis.

EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini announced on Wednesday (19 September) the Commission’s vision on how to better connect Europe and Asia, in what appears to be a reply to China’s Belt and Road initiative, and also an effort to prepare the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in October.

McDonald's tax deal with Luxembourg did not breach EU state aid rules, competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager said Wednesday. The EU executive's regulators said the reason the US fast food chain did not pay some of its taxes was due to the mismatch between US and Luxembourg laws. The decision comes after a three-year-long investigation, part of a wider crackdown against illegal sweetheart deals between EU governments and multinational companies.

Survey: The demand for organic products is rising in Germany. Is this all just marketing is there more behind this increase in turnover. EURACTIV Germany reports.

The European Commission concluded on Wednesday (19 September) that Luxembourg’s tax deal with McDonald’s was not illegal state aid as it did not give the company an unfair advantage, but instead was due to the “mismatch” of US and Luxembourgish tax laws.

Germany’s controversial constitutional protection chief Hans-Georg Maaßen may have had to leave his current post but he has already been promoted to state secretary in the German Ministry of the Interior. EURACTIV Germany's partner Der Tagesspiegel reports.

Four of the world’s biggest pharma companies appear to hide their profits in tax havens, according to a report published by Oxfam on Tuesday (18 September). Businesses said they are in the clear.

As cutting emissions out of transport gains in political and scientific importance, Diego Garcia Carvajal writes during European Mobility Week that the time is ripe to embrace electric cars on a grand scale.

The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency Hans-Georg Maaßen has been stripped of his current post but is to become state secretary of the Interior Ministry. He recently came under fire over his statements regarding the incidents in Chemnitz. Commentators see this as a compromise solution, but will it end the row within the government and appease the opposition?