A special summit designed to help Germany deal with immigration has turned into a car crash before it began. The draft summit declaration has gone in the bin because Italy said no to keeping migrants out of Germany. One of the principal guests, France, has ...

"The Greek crisis ends here, in Luxembourg, tonight". It was well past 1AM, on the night of Thursday (21 June) to Friday, when EU finance commissioner Pierre Moscovici tried to lend solemnity to the tedious deal reached after hours of discussions by ...

Liviu Dragnea, the head of Romania's ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD), who is considered as the country's true leader, was sentenced on Thursday to 3.5 years in prison for abuse of power. Dragnea, who has been barred from serving as prime minister ...

The European Commission is about to create a private pension fund, worth €2.1trillion - justifying their decision by pointing to the increasingly large and more elderly European Union population. This arrangement, which was absent from the European ...

The European Commission is against creating a "Guantanamo Bay in Europe" for migrants, its migration commissioner insisted Thursday (21 June) - while pushing vague plans to set up special centres in north African countries to prevent people boarding boats ...

EU states at the Council level this week decided not to confirm some EU asylum reforms because they want them signed off as a single package. There are seven such reforms under discussion. Of those, the council had discussed this week the qualification ...

The European Commission opened on Thursday an investigation into whether Qatar Petroleum is breaching EU antitrust rules by imposing territorial restrictions in its contracts with European companies. The state-owned company is the largest supplier of ...

EU countries definitively adopted on Thursday the revised directive on posted workers, after two years of discussions. Under the new rules, EU workers will be able to work up to 12 months in another country - with possibility of a six-month extension in ...

EU leaders will ask for an EU-wide plan to develop artificial intelligence (AI), according to a leaked draft of the conclusions of next week's EU summit. "[The leaders invite] the [European] Commission to work with member states on a coordinated plan on ...

German domestic politics has taken over the EU migration agenda, as select leaders meet for a special summit on Sunday (24 June). The EU needs to stop asylum seekers moving around inside Europe, from frontline places like Greece or Italy to wealthier ...

The EU is currently making significant efforts to play a pioneering role in green financing. The aim is to adapt the financial system to its ambitions for climate, sustainability and clean energy. Key impulses here were the Climate Agreement of Paris, the ...

Thursday, 21 June, is the longest day of the year - and it probably will be for Greece and eurozone ministers, as they try to reach an agreement on the end of the Greek bailout, and lay out a path for the years ahead. "Serious talks" were going on until ...

UK premier Theresa May passed a last Brexit hurdle when a 319 to 303 majority in parliament on Wednesday rejected a proposal from the House of Lords that MPs would be able to block a 'no deal' on Brexit. It came after assurances that MPs would have a ...

Pope Francis has said that populists are "creating a psychosis" on the issue of immigration. In an interview with Reuters published on Wednesday, he said that ageing societies in Europe face "a great demographic winter" and "will become empty" without ...

Health committee MEPs called in a resolution adopted on Wednesday on the EU Commission and member states to restrict the sale of antibiotics by human and animal health professionals, limiting the emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). "If nothing is ...

The European parliament's legal affairs committee voted on Wednesday 14-9 in favour of new controversial internet legislation to ensure fair pay for artists and journalists - but with the risk of stifling an open internet by requiring internet companies to ...

Germany has earned a decent profit on the Greek financial crisis, receiving since 2010 around €2.9bn in interest, according to figures revealed by the German government in response to a parliamentary query from the Green Party. "Contrary to all right-wing ...

"We are a legal organisation and our people work legally in Belgium. You pay your invoices every month and we will pay our ladies." With these words Silviya M., manager of Seniorcare24, reassures potential clients when they call with requests for ...

Could education contribute to creating a world free from gender-based violence? At UK-based think-tank GenPol, we believe so. In the wake of the global #MeToo movement our policy paper shows that comprehensive sexuality education is a vastly underused ...

The Party of European Socialists (PES) will announce its list of candidates for the European Commission presidency post at the 2019 elections at a meeting in Latvia, on October 19, it announced Wednesday. If there is more than one nomination, the ...

The Macedonian parliament ratified on Wednesday an agreement signed last Saturday with Greece that ended a 27-year dispute of the name of the country. The main opposition VMRO-DPMNE party boycotted the vote. Under the deal, the country will be named 'North ...

The European Commission on Wednesday (20 June) adopted counter-measures in response to US steel and aluminium tariffs Brussels deems illegal. The EU will begin charging import duties of 25 percent on selected US products, such as jeans and motorbikes, ...

The European Commission said Wednesday a "real driving emissions" (RDE) test for CO2 to help prevent cheating would take years to develop. "To think we can move from one day to another to an RDE test, that is not going to happen, that is not going to be ...

European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker had called a pre-summit "informal working meeting" in Brussels on Sunday to discuss migration and asylum, the issue currently preoccupying both the German coalition government in Berlin and the new Italian ...

The European Commission on Wednesday ordered Luxembourg to recover €120m from the Engie group, after finding the country broke state aid rules by allowing French energy company to effectively pay no tax by treating some transactions as both debt and equity ...

This week the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper) in the EU meets to run through a packed agenda covering topics that could be as diverse as fisheries, defence and trade relations. This may look like a routine meeting. But in fact this one is ...

EU institutional negotiators on Tuesday (19 June) reached an informal agreement on reforming Eurodac, a database that contains the fingerprints of asylum seekers. It means the age for obtaining fingerprints and facial images of minors will be lowered from ...

Germany and France have declared a wide range of joint efforts to inject vigour into their vision of the European Union ahead of an EU summit of leaders next week. On Tuesday (19 June), the two issued a Meseberg Declaration that calls for changes on ...

EU member states should no longer have any "unjustified restrictions" that bans companies from storing data in another EU country, negotiators from the European parliament, European commission, and member states agreed Tuesday evening. "Data localisation ...

European Commission, European Parliament, and national governments negotiators have agreed that by 2030 the EU's energy use should be 32.5% more efficient, a more ambitious target than agreed at an EU summit in 2014. They also concluded talks on a separate ...