Category: EU Reporter

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, […]

The Nord Stream 1 and 2 explosions were “the result of a deliberate act” EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said on Wednesday. “All available information indicates those leaks are the result of a deliberate act,” he tweeted. “We will support any investigation aimed at getting full clarity on what happened and why and will […]

Italy’s new prime minster-in-waiting, Giorgia Meloni, wants to set up a naval blockade to prevent migrants and asylum seekers fleeing Libya. The idea is unlikely to see the light of day.

Russia could interrupt its remaining gas deliveries to Europe via Ukraine, Russian-controlled energy giant Gazprom announced on Wednesday. Gazprom warned earlier this week that gas supplies via Ukraine were at risk due to a legal dispute with Ukraine’s state-owned gas company Naftogaz over transit fees. After the alleged “sabotage” of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, […]

The Czech EU Council presidency has presented to member states a compromise proposal on energy emergency measures, due to be adopted during Friday’s energy council. Under the latest agreement, countries would have the right to cap excess profits from low-cost electricity producers in a way that allows them to retain 10 percent of such revenues. […]

The unidentified drones seen flying near Norwegian offshore oil and gas platforms reported earlier this week have occurred over a period of “months.” This is what Amund Preede Revheim, who leads the investigation, told EUobserver in an email on Wednesday. “The events have occurred over months,” he said, but declined to specify further how far […]

The Queen’s funeral was an impressive demonstration of solidarity from the EU towards a country that left the Union in 2020, and with whom the EU’s relations have never recovered. Can the new King Charles III build bridges to Brussels?