Category: EU Reporter

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.

A confidential report into the EU’s border agency Frontex has been leaked in full by German transparency campaigners FragDenStaat and German media outlet Der Spiegel.

The sharks are circling around the REACH proposal on ‘forever chemicals’ and there are rumours that it could be dropped from the commission’s agenda. If true this would be a major coup for the chemicals industry and its political allies.

Growing numbers of Cubans, Indians, and Turks coming via Albania and Serbia to claim asylum in the EU has prompted talk of suspending Western Balkan visa-free travel.

Belarus dictator Lukashenka has been reluctant to send his own troops to Ukraine, but he also cannot survive without Putin’s support. Tsikhanouskaya told MEPs that it would be “political suicide” if Lukashenka sent Belarusian troops to Ukraine.