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.
Here are three crises Ursula von der Leyen probably won't mention on Wednesday in her State of the Union address: a US financial crash, sanctions on China, and taking on Big Tech's algorithms.
As the final ballots are counted before an official result on Wednesday, Sweden's outgoing government was one tainted with one of the strongest deportation rates and most stringent migration policies in the EU.
Europe’s Circular Economy Act can reduce dependencies, strengthen industrial resilience and create skilled green jobs. But it will only succeed if workers, working conditions and social dialogue are placed at its heart.
A single EU fund for “strategic projects” has become a major standoff, putting US steel tariffs, supply chains, and transatlantic relations at risk.
For our new report, Economic Competitiveness and European Citizens, we asked 11 experts from across Brussels and beyond 12 questions about Europe’s competitiveness debate. Download it for free here.
Every 10-percent rise in oil and gas prices increases overall inflation by 0.35 percentage points. The European Central Bank's rate hikes risk making it worse by making renewable investments more expensive, finds the London-based research institute New Economics Foundation.
A pro-EU technocrat, Mark Carney is the sort of politician Brussels loves to do business with.
Ursula von der Leyen is expected to announce new migrant-busting proposals on Wednesday during her State of the Union speech in Strasbourg. Speculation is rising on what they could be, given the bloc has spent 10 years debating asylum reforms which only kicked into force three months ago.
A strike just six kilometres from Poland’s border has jolted Warsaw and Kyiv into openly debating whether Nato should start flexing its own muscles along the frontier to force Vladimir Putin to pull troops away from Ukraine.
Paris could be bartering with Baku to free a French businessman jailed for spying, in return for dropping EU sanctions against a Russian oligarch with friends in high places.
Some 45,000 tonnes of hazardous plastic and medical waste lies uncollected and polluting groundwater in Croatia more than a year after it was discovered — prompting street protests in Zagreb, whilst chemical industry lobbyists in Brussels push for more exemptions for 'forever chemicals'
Putin has paraded a medieval saint’s severed hand before frontline troops, as Russian forces grind forward around Orikhiv and drones openly hunt Kherson civilians.