Category: EU Reporter

Italians cast their ballot yesterday on Sunday and chose a rightwing majority parliament, which is expected to have a turbulent relationship with Brussels.

German citizens are suing their government over its failure to bring air pollution levels down.

The European Union and its 27 member states will play a decisive role in deciding the fate of the hippo.

While a cap on revenues from renewables is aimed at redirecting excess profits from low-cost electricity generation back to consumers, analysts and industry groups argue such measures come with risks — and at a bad time.

All the articles you should not have missed this week.

Ireland has joined Poland and the Baltic states in lobbying for more hawkish Russia sanctions, in a sign of widening moral outrage in Europe.

Adapting Europe’s energy grid to a system largely run on renewable power will cost €584bn between now and 2030, according to a leaked EU Commission document seen by news agency Reuters. The commission is set to publish an action plan to build smart grids able to respond faster to intermittent local-supply fluctuations associated with wind […]

A Special Tribunal on Russian war crimes in Ukraine must be convened, because no permanent or existing international judicial institution is endowed with jurisdiction over Russian high-ranking officials, writes the head of the Ukraine delegation to the Council of Europe.

Some 6,470 Russians arrived in Finland across the land border on Thursday, according to figures posted by the Finnish border guards.”Incoming traffic is now greater than outgoing traffic,” it said. This compares to over 4,800 on Wednesday, the same day Russia’s president Vladimir Putin announced a plan to draft some 300,000 Russians to fight in […]

EU diplomats are having to be ever-more creative in finding Russians to blacklist, after already designating 1,206 names.