Europe
Parliament Keeps Housing Crisis in View
The European Parliament has extended its housing crisis committee until January 2027, keeping pressure on EU leaders over affordable housing, energy costs and social rights.
Internal EU
Europe
Taliban Talks Put EU Returns Policy Under Fire
A planned Brussels meeting on Afghan deportations has sharpened concern over rights, recognition and Europe’s duty not to return people to danger. The European Union is facing a growing human-rights...
European Council
The Great Lockdown: When Europe sacrifices its soul on the altar of the new Migration Pact
12 June 2026 will not merely be a date in the European Union’s archives; it will symbolise a historic capitulation. With the entry into force of the new Pact on...
Europe
EU Backs Stricter Rules for Returning Migrants
Parliament backs faster procedures, longer detention and return hubs as safeguards move to the centre of the migration debate The European Parliament has approved a new EU-wide system for returning...
Europe
Brussels Presses Berlin to Restore Schengen’s Open Borders
Germany is under renewed EU pressure to begin lifting internal border controls, as Brussels argues that migration reforms and alternative policing tools should now allow Schengen’s passport-free travel area to...
Internal EU
The oldest border in Europe?!
The modern world is structured in such a way that each country has clearly defined borders. But speaking of borders, we wondered what the oldest border in Europe is. After...
Council of Europe
Troubling questions on a Treaty Injustice which will not go away
Commission comes under pressure to account to parliament for its sudden closure of the long-running Lettori case Irish MEP Cynthia Ní Mhurchu has placed a priority question to the European...
Editor's choice
300th day without an EU Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief!
The EU does not care about victims of religious repression. The EU continues to remain deaf to repeated calls of members of the European Parliament, to desperate voices of victims...
Internal EU
Croatians are the EU’s top air passenger-kilometres
Croatia had the highest share of air passenger-kilometres in the total volume of transport services in the European Union in 2023 (43.5%), followed by Bulgaria (29.0%) and Cyprus (27.4%), according...
Education
Commission closes long-running Lettori case
Decision precludes a fifth Court of Justice ruling in a line of litigation which dates back to 1989. 07 August 2025 By Henry Rodgers In a sudden and unexpected about-face,...