Friday
22nd Jun 2018
Creditors are expected to agree Thursday on a final loan and debt relief measures for Greece. After eight years on an international lifeline, the country will remain under close surveillance - but will have to find a new economic model.
Coming weeks will be key to see how Giuseppe Conte and Pedro Sanchez can influence the bloc's policies.
As Brexit leads to budget cuts in the agriculture subsidies, EUobserver looks at some of the surprising recipients of CAP funding.
A German PhD candidate has recently started conducting interviews about how the EU's behind-closed-doors 'trilogues' actually work. "Now the fun work starts," he says.
Despite being depicted as amovement with racist and xenophobic undertones, the Catalan pro-independence movement represents the most heterogeneous sectors of society.
Karl-Heinz Lambertz, president of the Committee of Regions, remains unconvinced that 'Brussels' should give back any powers to the member states.
Some EU careworkers in Belgium receive around €400 a month - despite their carers paying €2,500 a month and paying for flights and accommodation. The answer lies in how firms can skirt the safeguards in the EU's posted workers directive.
Swedish nationalists have gambled on an in/out referendum to win votes in Europe's next big election, amid signs of new boldness in the far right.
Last weekend some 175,000 people in the Basque country demanded a 'right to decide'. For some, it means more autonomy from Spain, others independence. "We want to open a second front within the Spanish state," says one Basque politician.
The new regional government is to reopen its representations aboard. In Brussels, its new foreign minister Ernest Maragall insisted that it wanted to show "responsibility".
The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment says that levels of carbon monoxide can be twenty times as high when using a different measurement system.
Polish president keen to ask big questions in November, but ruling party could turn project into a damp squib.
The Basque government have offered to host some of the refugees rescued by the Aquarius humanitarian ship that will dock in Valencia. "That is the commitment of the Basque country," said it leader Inigo Ukrullu.
For Ukraine's new anti-corruption court to be successful, it requires Europe to step up and end its love of dirty money.
Poland's power behind the throne, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, is unwell, but the ageing party chief's successor could be even worse for EU relations.
The Joint Research Centre coordinates the EU-wide campaign to see if citizens in some member states receive inferior versions of products branded under the same name.
Some 300,000 school-age Syrian children in Turkey are not enrolled in classes. Fears they may end up in sweatshops or forced to beg have triggered efforts by the EU, Unicef, and the Turkish government to keep them in school.
EU ambassador to Turkey said member states may consider reopening accession talks with Ankara if Erdogan put an end to the post-coup state of emergency.
Collapse of government talks in Rome triggered instability on eurozone markets and controversy over an EU commissioner's comments on Italian democracy.
The EU commission wants to ban plastic straws and cutlery. Most of these are not made in the EU, making the proposal more likely to succeed.
Italy is in a political crisis because president Sergio Mattarella has rejected Paolo Savona as a cabinet member, for his views on the EU.
The success of the new general data protection regulation (GDPR) will depend on whether data protection authorities enforce the new rules - which, in turn, will be at least partly determined by how many people they employ.
"We are not panicking" said an EU official - but a government with the Five-Star Movement and the League is being compared with both Brexit and the election of Syriza in Greece.
The European Union's fund for free wireless internet connection hotspots is most popular in Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Malta, Slovenia and Romania. Check if your municipality pre-registered.
Quim Torra was elected president of the regional government, but neither his - nor Spanish prime minister's - strategy ahead are clear.
The leaders of the two main political parties want elections in July, despite fears of low turnout and prolonging the uncertainty. EU officials are worried that a prolonged political uncertainty would further weaken the Italian economy.
Committee of the Regions president Karl-Heinz Lambertz tells EUobserver why he is not happy with proposed cuts to the EU's cohesion policy. France has already spoken up against Common Agriculture Policy, but who will speak for the regions?
Three companies want to participate in a carbon capture and storage project – but they want the Norwegian government to pay for it.
The showdown over independence, and then the suspension of the region's autonomy, have had "a lot of impact on everyday life", said Laia Ortiz, while promoting the city's social experiment.
Two days after Orban's landslide victory, a former ally, now foe tycoon shuts down the largest opposition daily in a media landscape dominated by state-aligned outlets.
Populist politicians across Europe congratulated Hungary's Viktor Orban after he won a major victory at the ballot boxes on Sunday.
Hungary's premier Viktor Orban has inspired 'illiberalism' across central Europe and far-right politicians in the West. His expected re-election this Sunday will further reinforce his standing as a symbol for being tough on Europe's political mainstream.
Hungarians head to the polls on Sunday but high voter turnout and tactical voting could make it difficult for Viktor Orban's nationalist Fidesz to acquire an absolute majority or get a two-thirds majority it once held in parliament.
