Category: EU Reporter

Climate change, food insecurity and seasonal shortages have triggered calls to loosen regulation for genetically-modified food and seed technologies in the EU.

The European Commission has not taken any initiative to restaff the position of a coordinator on combating anti-Muslim hatred, which has been void since July 2021 and starved of resources and a clear mandate.

The proposal for a so-called European Media Freedom Act announced on Friday by the European Commission is part of wider efforts to tackle the erosion of rule of law in EU states like Poland and Hungary.

A mass burial site of more than 440 people was found in the recently liberated city of Izium in Eastern Ukraine. In a Thursday night video speech, president Volodymyr Zelensky compared the discovery to the hundreds of people found buried in Bucha on the outskirts of Kyiv in February. “Russia is leaving death behind it […]

The German government has put the German subsidiary of Russian oil giant Rosneft under trusteeship. Germany will eliminate all oil imports from Russia and to ensure the refinery, one of Germany’s largest, can continue operations in the winter without disruption, the majority owned Russian company has been taken over. “With the trusteeship, the threat to […]

Sweden and Finland are counting on further talks with Turkey to unlock their Nato accession, as Western diplomats wonder what Ankara really wants.

A report on Russian spying at the Council of Europe doesn’t present the slightest evidence for the far-reaching allegations it makes, the Council’s parliamentary president, Tiny Kox says.

The European Parliament agreed on higher renewable and energy-saving targets for energy consumption in the EU — amid an energy crisis which has prompted the EU to put forward unprecedented measures to curb high energy prices.

The overwhelming majority of European parliament lawmakers have supported a resolution saying Hungary is no longer a full democracy. 433 MEPs on Thursday voted in favour, 123 against and 28 abstentions. The resolution notes that lack of decisive EU action has contributed to the emergence of a “hybrid regime of electoral autocracy”. It condemns the […]

Swedish centre-left prime minister Magdalena Andersson has pledged to resign Thursday, after vote counting from last Sunday’s election saw a right-wing bloc including a party with Nazi roots narrowly win. The right-wingers got 176 seats out of 349 with 99 percent of the votes counted. The bloc’s Sweden Democrats party has Nazi roots and used […]