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.
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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.
The wave of Russian state terrorism now breaking over Europe is quite different from the leftwing Baader-Meinhof group of the 1970s. It is part of a big plan to break Nato, yet Germany (and Spain, France, and Belgium) is not taking this seriously. This sends a clear message to the Kremlin: keep attacking us, writes Edward Lucas.
With Monday and Tuesday's Arctic summit, the EU’s real Arctic weakness is not a lack of ambition, but a lack of a proper category for its closest non-member neighbours – Norway, Iceland, and increasingly the UK.
With the left only narrowly in front, Swedes will now face days of negociations over who will run their hospitals, schools and migration system as fragile alliances and bitter rivalries collide in coalition talks.
Behind softened rhetoric on women’s rights, far-right parties are pushing quieter legal changes that keep women under greater control
Before this year's State of the European Union address on Wednesday (16 September), the EU Commission asked people on social media what they wanted to hear in the speech. There is already an answer on file. More than 1.4 million people gave it six years ago through the European Citizens' Initiative "End the Cage Age" — and they are still waiting for a response they can act on.
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European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen will outline her vision for the EU in her annual State of the European Union speech, as Canada’s Mark Carney edges closer to Brussels and away from Washington. Curbs on teenagers’ use of social media and measures to counter hybrid threats are also on this week’s agenda.
A poll by the SVT public broadcaster showed Kristerssen's liberal-rightwing bloc trailing with 46.8 percent, compared to 51.3 percent for the left-green alliance of former socialist prime minister Magdalena Andersson.