Category: EU Reporter

The Netherlands has been the last EU country to announce that it would quit the controversial Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) over climate concerns — after Poland and Spain.

If you live in the EU, chances are your plastic trash might be recycled by child or migrant workers in Turkey. The Waste Shipment Regulation should be amended to prevent this.

Is Europe really increasingly polarising? A few recent academic studies seem to have evidence that suggests the opposite. How is that for a polarising opinion?

“Mental health is the silent pandemic,” Irish centre-right MEP Maria Walsh, who spearheads several parliament initiatives on mental health, said, arguing that the EU needs to have a strategy implemented in “weeks, not years”.

EU leaders will threaten to impose fresh sanctions on Belarus if it continues to support Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to draft conclusions of this week’s summit. Leaders will urge Minsk “to stop enabling the Russian war of aggression” and say Europe “remains ready to move quickly with further sanctions against Belarus if needed.” Russia […]

“The return of war on our continent has accentuated the need to create a real European Security and Defence Union.”

The EU is preparing a ninth round of sanctions on Russia as well as weighing related measures against Moscow’s ally, Iran, following drone strikes on civilian targets in Ukraine.

Europe will never use gas in the same way again, but the Commission planning as though it can. If unchanged, Europe will be denied the opportunity to plan a future beyond gas

The European Parliament refused to endorse the EU’s border police Frontex, following numerous reports of abuse under its previous leadership. The vote saw MEPs declining to grant the agency discharge for its 2020 annual budget.

Some EU politicians want to expand gas supply to deal with high energy prices, but global think tanks Ember and E3G claim a better way to deal with high energy prices is by fast-tracking renewables.