Category: EU Reporter

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.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on Thursday passed a resolution declaring Russia as a “terrorist” regime. The text was adopted with 99 votes in favour and one abstention (Turkey). It says recent nuclear threats made by Moscow are in breach of international law — which prompts questions over Russia’s seat on the […]

Backing by 143 UN members Wednesday for an EU-drafted resolution condemning Russian annexation of eastern Ukrainian regions was “remarkable”, International Crisis Group expert Richard Gowan told EUobserver from New York. “Diplomats had been predicting 125 to 130 positive votes”, he said. The annexation “forced” those sitting on the fence “to make a stand”. Russian missile […]

Ukraine has filed court papers against 45 suspected war criminals out of whom 10 have been already convicted for crimes committed since the Russian invasion began in late February, said Ukraine’s prosecutor general

MEPs in the industry committee voted to include nuclear and low-carbon hydrogen projects to the list eligible for finance under an EU green fund.

Estonia approved a new military aid package to Ukraine on Thursday. “We are sending winter gear, equipment and ammunition to Ukraine. We will deliver them fast,” Estonia’s prime minister Kaja Kallas tweeted. Anti-tank weaponry would be replaced with new weapons systems expected to be delivered in December, according to the ministry of defence. Training programmes […]

Despite citizen mobilisation and political support for the upcoming EU ban on cages for farmed animals, the lobbyists of Big Agri-food industry are now asking the EU for delays and loopholes that would make the new law ineffective in practice.