Category: EU Reporter

The EU Commission said Thursday it would file a legal challenge against Malta for its golden passport program, which allows wealthy foreigners to buy citizenship, and access to the EU’s Schengen zone, for an investment of around €1m. Malta suspended it for Russians and Belarusians, but continues for all other nationalities. The commission argues that […]

The EU is aiming to blacklist Russian celebrity philosopher Alexander Dugin and strike at Russia’s oil, steel, and forestry industries in its latest sanctions, new proposals say.

A vast network of European ships helps keep Putin’s oil economy afloat. European vessels have shipped millions of tonnes of oil, gas and coal from Russian ports in the six months since the invasion, Investigate Europe and Reporters United reveal.

Academics and biotech research organisations with corporate interests have been leading the lobby campaign to deregulate new genomic techniques in the EU — using ‘climate-friendly’ and ‘science-based’ narratives, according to a report.

Some have tried to justify Big Tech’s meagre tax payments in EU states with heavier tax burdens by emphasising the fact that these companies create jobs and invest in next-generation technologies. However, their market dominance comes at a steep cost.

This morning several media outlets, including Der Spiegel and The New York Times, reported that the CIA warned several EU countries this summer of a potential attack Nord Stream. Danish defence minister Morten Bødskov denied these claims on Wednesday. “Neither the government nor I have been notified,” he told government broadcaster TV2. “I also don’t […]

The EU is aiming to ban Russian imports worth €7bn a year in its next round of sanctions, EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen declared Wednesday, without saying which new products would be hit. It’s also proposing to ban more dual-use high-tech exports and impose a price cap on Russian oil. New blacklists will […]

As more-and-more AI-operated tools surround us — think of package-delivery drones, self-driving lorries, cleaning robots — the EU executive set out a bill to alleviate the burden of proof for consumers.

The Netherlands is the only EU state where the minimum income is above the poverty line. A minimum income is not a wage but rather a social safety net to ensure people do not end up destitute.

A group of 15 member states has called on the European Commission to present plans to introduce a bloc-wide cap on the price of gas at Friday’s energy council. “The cap should be applied to all wholesale natural gas transactions, and not limited to import from specific jurisdictions,” reads the letter signed by Belgium, Bulgaria, […]