Category: EU Reporter

High prices of energy, fuels, fertilisers and feed are pushing up agricultural production costs and harming farm profitability in several European markets due to Russia’s war on Ukraine, prompting some member states to seek further EU support.

The European Central Bank is set to increase interest rates in the eurozone at its governing council meeting on Thursday —amid monetary and political turmoil.

An IT expert who stirred up anti-EU hatred, an Orientalist, and biological weapons experts — the profiles of 19 more spies expelled from Belgium in April show what Russia’s embassy to the EU was up to.

The European Commission is taking Hungary to court for laws that discriminate over people’s sexual orientation and gender identity.

A new investigation by Forensic Architecture/Forensis has mapped over 1,000 cases of illegal at-sea expulsions of asylum seekers in the Aegean Sea, also known as ‘drift-backs’, whereby people are towed out to sea and abandoned. The cases took place between March 2020 and March 2022 and involved 27,464 people, it said.

Last year 25 million children worldwide missed vaccines that protect against life-threatening diseases, according to data published on Thursday (15 July) by the World Health Organization and UNICEF. It is the largest drop in childhood vaccination rates in about 30 years according to the organisations. “It is the largest sustained decline in childhood vaccinations in […]

MEPs in the legal affairs committee backed a provisional deal on the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) on Thursday, endorsing the previous agreement between the EU Parliament and member states reached in June. MEPs will hold the final plenary vote in autumn. The CSRD will oblige businesses to report on environmental, social and working standards, as […]

A cross-party group of MEPs called on the European Commission to tackle illegal short-term rentals with a legislative proposal, connected to the Digital Service Act. EU lawmakers complained that the publication of the initiative was postponed, urging the commission to come forward with a proposal this year. “The availability and affordability of housing, as well […]

Trade unions are calling on key MEPs to halt further steps in the legislative procedure on rules on working conditions in the so-called platform economy until Uber’s controversial EU lobbying tactics are fully investigated. “Expecting good faith from the digital labour platforms during these procedures is a naïve attitude from the legislator, if not a […]

European commission president Von der Leyen on Thursday reiterated her support for North Macedonia to one day join the European Union.”We want you in the EU,” she said. “Bilateral issues, such are history issues, are not conditions for accession,” she said, in reference to Bulgaria’s opposition. She also endorsed a French proposal to help North […]