The European Commission is ready to unlock €10bn of funds for Hungary. But the country must meet deadlines that are closing in fast, and any funds are unlikely to be released until the end of this year. With a looming 31 August deadline, Hungary essentially has only shot to get everything right.
As EU lawmakers turn their fire on “foreign-funded” NGOs, Natacha Kazatchkine warns that a coordinated witch-hunt is starving civil society of money, legitimacy and space to defend basic rights.
“Citizens can make personal choices – I decided on the Fairphone, with a Murena operating system, which is de-Googled,” said Belgian AI expert.
Pope Leo has chosen to confront one of the most pressing issues of our time by placing lethal autonomous weapons and the militarisation of artificial intelligence at the centre of his thinking.
Why Ukraine pilots ‘love’ Swedish warplanes: Russian MiGs no longer safe (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,555)With Ukraine poised to field Gripens armed with long‑range missiles, one ace pilot said: “I would even trade for it my only love [Russia’s MiG-29]”.
Albania is already becoming unaffordable for many of its own citizens during the summer months. Entire coastal areas increasingly cater to foreign investors, luxury tourism, and speculative real estate markets. What was once a shared natural space risks becoming privatised scenery for multimillionaires.
Having been shut out of the ‘design’ of the EU’s carbon levy, Africa should hit back with its own carbon tax, says the chief economist at the UN Economic Commission for Africa.
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Moldova says the war in Ukraine has helped revive EU enlargement, giving Chișinău a historic chance to advance toward membership. Moldova’s EU minister says the country is on the right track for joining the bloc by 2030, despite unresolved tensions over Transnistria and the high financial costs of alignment.
Today, European commissioners will hold a strategic debate on China. While the EU is still figuring out its position, what are China’s strategic objectives when it comes to the EU?
New anti-settler sanctions may seem weak to Israeli-critical EU capitals, but send a message directly to Netanyahu’s cabinet.
Hungary’s new prime minister is halving the job’s sky-high pay, pushing quasi-judicial inquiry committees and racing to clinch an EU cash deal – all while discovering he is no longer even his own party’s most popular face.
Spring in Ukraine: May the Force Be With YouLife in Ukraine and Kyiv goes on. But there are islands of hurt, destruction, loss, scattered across the landscape, hidden behind polite smiles, encoded in the language
Confusion reigns on the future of a Rwandan-led mission in Mozambique for which EU funding ends on Sunday.
Péter Magyar is hoping to unblock over €10.4bn in frozen EU post-pandemic Covid funds following a planned meeting on Friday with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.
Ukrainians prepare logistics lockdown for Russian army in the south (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,554)While Russian officials boast of flags planted deep behind enemy lines, maps, videos and leaked frontline accounts reveal a very different picture.
EU methane regulation might be the next casualty of a dangerous dynamic in Brussels: If industry suffers for whatever reason, policymakers reflexively blame climate legislation.
As Lukashenko tried to ban even her red lipstick from prison, Maryja Kalesnikava describes why she refused exile and chose an 11-year sentence instead.
The outbreak of Ebola currently hitting the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is being fueled by armed conflict — but also, and perhaps above all, by the global decline in humanitarian aid.
If the EU insists on imposing economic and trade restrictions on China, China will have no choice but to take corresponding countermeasures.
Ritual condemnation of death threats against EU diplomats in Kyiv masks concern Russia could bomb a European embassy and get away with it.