EU touts Africa rail corridor but mineral-processing is key battle with China

Working for women’s rights in a hostile committee

Listen: With EU politicians contaminated with PFAS, pressure mount on Brussels

EU ministers meet to discuss future online child protection moves

China's PR offensive in Europe rings hollow

There was little surprise when the Lobito Corridor project was the first example cited by EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen at the start of the Global Gateway Forum in Brussels on Thursday.

A plenary debate in Strasbourg on gender equality showed just how active and outspoken rightwing MEPs have become. Chair of the women's rights and gender equality committee, MEP Lina Gálvez Muñoz, is concerned about the power they now have.

EU puts off 'chat control' vote amid deep division

On the agenda in Copenhagen were plans for social media to have effective and privacy-preserving age-verification, and the need to regulate or ban harmful practises such as dark patterns, retention mechanisms, and so-called lootboxes.

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The EU Council has cancelled its vote, due next week, on a controversial anti-child sexual abuse regulation, a law popularly dubbed "chat control."

EU banks in Russia betting on 'grand bargain', instead of asset-grab

Congo 'perplexed and disappointed' by EU inaction on Rwanda war

Alleged Hungarian spying on EU institutions triggers internal probe

MEPs discuss proxy voting for pregnant women and new mothers

Ceasefire, yes. Now what about accountability for Israel's genocide?

Some EU firms in Russia are raking in money, others already lost billions, as CEOs hedge bets on whether the Ukraine war will end in a "grand bargain" — or an asset-grab.

“Perplexed and disappointed” is the verdict of Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, DR Congo’s foreign minister, on the EU’s tepid response to Rwanda’s war that continues to rage in eastern Congo.

The European Commission will look into allegations Hungary's intelligence service spied on the EU institutions and its staff.

The European Parliament wants to allow pregnant MEPs absent from the chamber to vote in plenary sessions. But it's expected that the European Council’s consent will be difficult.

Car industry could be 'lost forever', if EU keeps 2035 combustion-engine ban

Austria isolated, as EU edges toward Russia sanctions deal

This much-needed and welcomed ceasefire does not change the simple fact that Israel has just committed a genocide in Gaza. We got so much used to this term now, that the 'G' word became almost normal. Where do we go from here? asks Dr Yoav Shemer-Kunz of European Jews for Palestine.

Financial watchdog warns of ballooning costs of EU budget

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Conservative lawmakers piled more pressure on the EU Commission to scrap a planned 2035 ban on combustion engine cars on Wednesday (8 October), warning that the car industry could be “lost forever”.

EU states have provisionally agreed to curb Russian diplomats' travel and ban imports of liquid gas, but Austria and Slovakia still have objections to the next round of sanctions.

MEPs call for stronger enforcement of digital regulation

EPP ready to join far-right in watering down EU sustainability rules

EU's new LGBTIQ+ strategy 'does not meet today’s reality,' critics say

Interest-rate repayments under the EU's current long-term budget are likely to surpass €30bn — or more than double the initial European Commission forecast, warn financial auditors.

Listen: Austria’s bid to free Russian assets tests EU unity on sanctions

October 7 redux — so now what from the EU?

The fight for fair traineeships across the EU

MEPs have called for stronger enforcement of digital rules and ways to reduce technological dependency on non-EU actors, amid concerns over external pressures that can undermine Europe’s digital sovereignty.

The centre-right European People's Party is siding with far-right groups to slash EU sustainability and corporate due diligence rules, while business leaders and former EU heavyweights are urging to keep climate and human rights reporting rules intact.

With far-right and conservative powers on the rise, discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people is still a sad truth in Europe. The European Commission's new strategy aims to stop that, but critics call out ineffective instruments.

EU to cut steel imports by 47 percent to avoid 'fatal' blow to industry

Austria's bid to unfreeze Russian money causes EU alarm

EU ambassadors are once again meeting in Brussels this Wednesday trying to agree on a new round of sanctions against Russia. But this time Austria, besides Hungary and Slovakia, has thrown a spanner in the works.

Complacent EU officials in Brussels may shrug off accusations of double standards as part of a new geopolitical reality. But others know that no amount of clever spin or PR can hide the difference in the EU’s treatment of Ukrainian and Palestinian lives, writes Shada Islam.

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The EU will slash steel imports by 47 percent in a bid to protect the bloc’s steel industry from chronic global oversupply, primarily from China, under new rules announced on Tuesday.

Austria's proposal to unfreeze €2bn of Russian assets has caused worry on creating a bad precedent, with Hungary and Slovakia also threatening to delay new EU sanctions

Dutch court rejects X’s bid to silence data privacy claimant

EU Commission to unveil its new sectoral AI uptake strategy

Hungary fails in bid to remove immunity from three MEPs opposing Orban

Europe is losing the war it does not see

Listen: Two years since 7 October - Fragile Gaza peace talks continue

Why 7 October is our collective failure