We hear a lot about extremism in Germany, after the breakthrough of the AfD earlier this month. Yet a far-left government may be about to take power in Berlin on Sunday, and is attracting almost no attention. Why is that?
Ursula von der Leyen talks about European sovereignty and keeping Europe’s fate in European hands, but the model she presented for achieving that sovereignty relies heavily on non-European technology and global capital.
Belgium's minister for migration was accused of being "the shame of this government" during a heated debate on Wednesday on the fate of 13 Gazans who won scholarships to Belgian universities but have been denied transport so that they can take up their places.
Turkey has arrested dozens of LGBTI+ activists in nationwide raids, drawing meek criticism from EU officials and calls for Europe-wide solidarity protests on Friday.
Ukrainians brace for another winter of blackouts, but are still overwhelmingly continuing resistance.
Hashim Thaçi was convicted for "torture against 303 individuals and murder against 96 individuals", prompting angry protests by Kosovo nationalists in The Hague and Pristina.
Ursula von der Leyen highlighted the devastating impacts of climate change during her State of the Union address, including hectares of land burned, crops lost and additional heatwave-related deaths.
The Greeks suspend asylum in 2020. They did again last year. The EU commission endorsed both. Greece last month asked new EU rules to suspend asylum and the commission appears to have complied.
EU commission president Ursula von der Leyen offered unprecedented 'associate member' status of the bloc to Canada on Wednesday. But what could this mean in practice?
EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen's answer to spiralling Russian aggression was one new strategy document, and two new sets of meetings. Her answer to Israel's killing spree was to call it "unacceptable".
When other empires stopped expanding, Russia refused to stop. "Perhaps Russia was too successful for too long," argues political geographer Michael Romancov. He explained that over five centuries of land grabs worked for so long it became part of Russia's "genetic make-up".
With summer droughts, fires and rising food insecurity fresh in mind, von der Leyen is expected to weigh only modest moves like a new Water Act and climate-risk plan.
Magnus Brunner, the EU migration commissioner, makes an impassioned plea to tackle migrant smugglers. The EU has been saying the same thing for the past 15 years, yet profits remain high and people continue to die.
The EU's competitiveness problems and its trade dispute with China have not gone away, but Ursula von der Leyen won't pile on the criticism of Beijing at Wednesday's State of the Union address, as trade talks enter the crunch stage.
The parliament supports the European Democracy Shield proposal and calls for sanctions to fight Russian disinformation campaigns.
The EU's single market has come up against a labour force-sized issue time and time again. A new bundle of regulations takes aim at streamlining hiring across the bloc, although critics worry this only facilitates recruiters while leaving workers still exposed to vulnerabilities in the workplaces
Ukraine is also keen for a deal to spare its own power plants and ports, but Putin shows no sign of stopping his energy strikes in the run-up to winter.
Brussels’ objections could see millions in EU subsidies for Agrofert frozen or clawed back, while ordinary Czech farmers still receive direct payments under a system the commission deems less vulnerable to Babiš’s conflict of interest.
MEPs voted to strip the European Commission of a proposed power to temporarily exempt goods (such as fertilisers) from the EU's carbon border levy, setting up a clash with member states.
When Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon take the stage together to call for responsible AI development, and Pope Leo XIV does so in his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, all aligning with the direction of EU regulation, there is political space for urgent action.