Category: EU Reporter

The EU is aiming to pull 10 south-east Asian states into the Western camp on Russia and China when they meet for their first-ever summit in December.

New EU sanctions on Iran make clear that it has joined Russia’s war against Ukraine by supplying lethal drones to Moscow.

The European Parliament awarded the people of Ukraine the 2022 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. “This award is for those Ukrainians fighting on the ground. For those who have been forced to flee,” said Roberta Metsola, president of the European Parliament. The nomination follows Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February. The award, which is […]

The EU is gathering intelligence on right wing extremist threats for a wider assessment, said the European Commission. The comments come amid a debate on Russia’s influence on far-right parties and politicians in Europe.

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.”