Category: EU Reporter

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.

Firms in the EU should be able to stop workers from wearing religious symbols, such as headscarves, so long as their rules on religious neutrality “applied to all workers in a general and undifferentiated way”, the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg ruled on Thursday. The ruling came over a Belgian case in which L.F., […]

Long-standing rule of law and democracy issues in Hungary “remain largely unaddressed”, therefore the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), the Strasbourg-based rights watchdog, has voted to place the country under its full monitoring procedure. Hungary is only the second EU country, besides Poland, to be placed under full monitoring, which involves regular […]

Some 143 UN states voted in favour of an EU-drafted resolution condemning Russia’s “attempted illegal annexations” of eastern Ukraine in New York Wednesday, with five against, and 35 abstentions. Belarus, Nicaragua, North Korea, and Syria joined Russia in opposing the text. China, India, Pakistan, and South Africa abstained. “The world has sent a clear message […]

There is still no consensus on gas price caps — but EU countries reached a general agreement to purchase gas through a joint platform before next summer.