After 50 EU summits, leaders are still copy‑pasting failed migration ‘solutions’
EU leaders keep quietly copy‑pasting calls for tougher returns and externalised border control, while largely sidelining legal migration and resettlement schemes that could save lives.
Broken promise of ‘European solution’ on migration overshadows next week’s summit
the same solutions on migration.
If it worked with Ukraine, why not also Iran? Green MEPs urge EU to tax oil super profits
the bill for the Iran war while oil firms’ profits surge, the EU Parliament’s left hit a commission-shaped brick wall in Strasbourg.
Drone strikes on Black Sea cargo ships point to wider European arc of Russia hybrid threats
the Black Sea point to a 360-degree threat of Russian hybrid attacks, covering also the EU’s southern and eastern flanks.
Ukraine forces becoming more agile under new commander-in-chief Drapatyi, who is also drafting a ‘grand strategy’ for the war (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,686)
a picture of an army suddenly trusted to improvise, led by rehabilitated critics and 30‑something officers, while Russia marks Putin’s birthday with mass strikes and a burning oil tanker off Sochi’s coast.
Sanctions in February, handshakes in September: EU’s flip-flop Iran policy is putting lives at risk
By sitting down with senior Iranian figures who publicly back the Revolutionary Guard while keeping sanctions limited to technocratic lists, EU governments risk undermining their own leverage at a time of rising regional tensions.
Why Oxygen Forensics US tech CEO selling software to Europe agencies was arrested
a forensic software to government bodies across Europe, hid the tool’s true owners and concealed its Russian development.
EU will need to tax AI ‘workers’ to keep funding human pensions
, a rethink of who gets taxed, on what, and where. Nowhere is that question more urgent than in Europe, which funds the world’s most comprehensive welfare states primarily through taxes on work.
Listen: Are we now heading to a trade war with China?
the European market, provoking EU debates about competitiveness.
‘EU Inc’? Simplification must go hand-in-hand with legal certainty
a form of company that no public authority will be able to check in substance. Speed is not the same as trust. With the European Parliament and the Council finalising their positions, the Notaries of Europe urge legislators to strengthen its safeguards.
Commission seeks 15-year safeguards on future member states, but says reforms won’t create two-tier EU
EU accession would make it easier to suspend future member states’ voting rights if they misbehaved.
How bad does it have to get for the ECB to save France?
A full-blown debt crisis is not yet on the cards. But as things stand, a protracted muddling through seems the most likely outcome.
MEPs warn against EU rush to restarting funds for Hungary while corruption and plurality concerns remain
the EU’s concerns over the rule of law and judicial independence, and the EU seems tkeen to quickly resume frozen funding for Budapest.
Von der Leyen joins MEPs in defence of EU’s €2 trillion spending plan ahead of summit
“I would like to caution against large cuts. It would risk cutting deep into critical priorities that we all together have agreed on,” the EU Commission chief told MEPs during a speech in Strasbourg on Tuesday.
EU needs to solve the cost-of-living crisis to stop far-right populists, Portuguese PM Luís Montenegro tells MEPs
the cost of living crisis is key to keeping the far-right out of power, as ultra-nationalist party reaches record popularity at home.
German ex-spy chief arrested over espionage and treason allegations involving leaked BND files
Germany’s former spy chief now stands accused of selling thousands of ultra-sensitive intelligence files to foreign clients, in a scandal insiders warn could cripple Berlin’s trust with allied services.
The children of Gaza are being killed every day. Where are the headlines?
despite rules and the EU treaties that require them to protect children’s rights.
AI machine-gun turrets do battle with Russian jet drones for the skies of Kyiv (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,685)
, Ukraine’s air raids on Russian oil sites saw it boast that over half of Moscow’s refinery capacity was offline, potentially choking fuel supplies far from the front.
Centre-right’s Muslim Brotherhood witch-hunt in EU Parliament risks criminalising everyday activism
this vague hunt for “Muslim Brotherhood networks”, the same logic could later be turned against almost any vocal minority in Europe.
Listen: Is the EU actually willing to speed up enlargement?
EU wants to bring new countries on board faster. But after years of waiting, will the Commission’s new proposals actually make enlargement easier?
