Category: EU Reporter

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.

Nine EU countries are pushing for a Europe-wide ban to the systematic extermination of male chicks in farms.

EU institutions have proposed to re-channel €40bn from the bloc’s budget to help people struggling with high energy bills, as part of wider measures to tackle the energy crisis.

EU Commission vice-president Frans Timmermans scolded Hungary’s foreign minister Tuesday after Péter Szijjártó travelled to Moscow recently. “I don’t think going on your knees in front of [Russian president] Putin in Moscow is going to be a long-term solution for our problems,” he told journalists, adding: “I was quite disgusted by seeing minister Szijjártó again […]

EU affairs ministers on Tuesday commented on the European Parliament’s proposals on reforming EU elections, including formalising the so-called spitzenkandidat process — choosing the next EU Commission president through the election –, lowering the voting age to 16 and having transnational lists and a common voting day. Several ministers criticised the proposals arguing that they […]

The Olaf report on Frontex published in full this week highlights once again one of the cruelest euphemisms used in talking about people wanting to cross borders.

Dutch and Belgian journalists, working with the Dossier Center, an NGO in London, have revealed the identities of 18 more Russian diplomats expelled from the EU in April on grounds of espionage.