A “strictly confidential”, but leaked, EU legal memo from 2017 said Europe was entitled to freeze Israel science grants and free-trade perks over its West Bank aggression. “What was then a legitimate option, today is a legal obligation,” an Italian expert said.
“The ever and fast deteriorating situation calls for such action [on Israel”, a joint Franco-Swedish proposal said.
A controversial new clause in the EU’s migration policy overhaul would give police across the bloc the power to enter private homes in search of undocumented migrants facing deportation.
The EU has legal grounds to halt at least 16 other dodgy oil tankers if they go into the Baltic Sea, as drone threats add to oil-spill and cable-cutting perils from Russia’s shadow fleet.
EU funds spent abroad to tackle irregular migration may end up benefiting people slapped with international sanctions for rights abuses, according to a leaked internal European Commission document.
Just one small-time businessman is to get his French real estate and Austrian hotel back when the EU rolls over its Russia blacklist, in a defeat for Moscow’s EU lobbyists and lawyers.
Israeli arms firm Rafael could lose EU grant money after posting a PR clip on X in which its drone, the Spike Firefly, killed a man in Gaza.
A leaked EU document outlines the toothless nature of a Gaza aid “understanding” between the EU and Israel: non-binding, ambiguous, and difficult to monitor.
The high-level EU official was lobbying against Israel sanctions using bogus claims on antisemitism, according to a “sensitive” cable from Tel Aviv leaked to EUobserver.
Fresh details are emerging into the deportation of EU home affairs commissioner Magnus Brunner and three European ministers earlier this week by authorities in eastern Libya.
Full text: The EU has corroborated UN allegations that Israel was guilty of “indiscriminate attacks … starvation … torture … [and] apartheid” against Palestinians in a leaked “review”.
Most of the 77 oil tankers being added to the EU’s blacklist are currently in the Eastern Mediterranean or Middle East — for those who want to track Russian oil-smuggling in real time.
The leak of an internal EU paper from 2024 spelling out Israel’s “war crimes” in Gaza will make it harder to claim Tel Aviv merits keeping free trade perks.
Some 25 shortly-to-be-designated ‘shadow fleet’ oil tankers are currently in the Baltic Sea or North Sea regions, posing a threat of oil spills and cable-cutting incidents.
The EU is preparing mini-sanctions on Russia’s shadow fleet, Chinese tech firms, Russian sniper rifles, and gold — ahead of another potential Hungary-veto crisis.
The identities of four ‘shadow fleet’ captains show the global scale of EU sanctions evasion, as Russian oil income continues to grow.
A meeting between the OSCE parliamentary assembly and delegates from Russia has sparked controversy — as it marks Russia’s first engagement with the assembly since the 2022 Ukraine invasion.
The ECR group secured enough signatures to launch a formal inquiry committee into what they call ‘green lobbying’ and the use of EU funds for green NGOs.
Russia’s historic Tass news agency is to go offline in the EU and people who run Russia’s oil-tanker ‘shadow fleet’ will be blacklisted in future under new sanctions.
The European Ombudsman’s office hosted a €35,000 farewell party for Emily O’Reilly in September, according to internal documents obtained by EUobserver.