Creating an institution that cannot, by design, reach the one man it was created for is not accountability. It is expensive symbolism — and it costs Europe exactly the credibility it is trying to project, argues former ICC judge Christine Van den Wyngaert.
With the far right poised to govern parts of Germany for the first time since WWII, Boeselager warns that only bold economic fixes and fairer pension sacrifices can convince frustrated workers that democracy still delivers.
Brussels little-known food safety corps is becoming a strategic line of defence in the struggle to keep Europe’s plates clean without derailing trade.
From hospital wards to cramped flats and overheated classrooms, the new European battle over air conditioning will decide who gets to stay healthy, keep working and simply sleep through the next wave of 35°C nights.
As France votes to give its residents suffering from incurable illness the right to assisted dying, research finds that public perception has become increasingly favourable to euthanasia – despite critics calling it a ‘shortcut’
Another record-distance Ukrainian strike leaves Russia’s Wildberries facing collapse — unless the Kremlin steps in(Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,625)Behind the dramatic warehouse fires, insiders describe a marketplace using customers’ cash to plug growing holes in its business model—leaving the state to choose between a costly bailout or a shock to Russia’s fragile home front.
As Hungary struggles through an energy crisis, prime minister Péter Magyar is fighting off Fidesz attacks, recovering billions from an Orbán-linked era, and facing controversy over who really controls the country’s public media.
From secret deportations and European-funded projects destroyed in Gaza to EU recovery funds and mining lobbying, these ten investigations expose the widening gap between Europe’s rhetoric and the realities of its policies and actions.
After loudly demanding more oversight of the EU’s €300bn Global Gateway scheme, national ministers are now skipping its own board meetings. “It’s a major part of the budget, but it’s not really understood,” said the Irish liberal MEP Barry Andrews, who chairs the parliament’s development committee.
Ceuta’s leadership contends with the effects of last week’s mass migration arrival, with unaccompanied minors facing the toughest of conditions
With the river too shallow for freight, a nuclear plant almost offline and big firms ordered to curb power use, Hungary’s heatwave is rippling straight into citizens’ jobs, bills and fears of blackouts.
Russian ‘Starlink’ creates first coverage windows over Ukraine, raising concerns about future drone command and control (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,624)As Moscow quietly strings together enough Rassvet satellites to open brief internet “corridors” over Ukraine, Kyiv’s experts are racing to decide whether to fight this new threat in space or on the ground.
The target is the Mina do Barroso, an open-pit lithium mine planned by London-listed mining developer Savannah Resources. It would be one of the largest in Western Europe.
The first female president of Ireland is no stranger to marginalisation. But a trip to the West Bank proved how extreme injustice can become normalised if there is no accountability, which “the EU has levers” to change
By using forced-labour claims to justify tariffs and threaten Europe’s digital and climate rules, Washington is testing whether the EU dares to turn its own powerful regulatory arsenal against American companies.
Europe’s failure to shield workers from extreme heat is becoming an €800bn threat to jobs, wages, and national budgets, as farms and construction sites grind to a halt.
About €1.4bn in interest from more than €210bn in frozen Russian central bank assets will be channelled to finance Ukraine’s war effort and economy, after a deadly Russian missile attack on Kyiv.
Ukraine’s air defence failed to shoot down a single Russian missile overnight, bringing Elon Musk’s Starlink into the spotlight (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,623)As Kyiv counts its dead after another night of unstoppable missile strikes, Ukraine’s generals and Western allies are suddenly forced to decide whether to hit Russia’s launchers directly — and whether Elon Musk will let them.
Berlin approved the export guarantee on the basis that the rig would replace older equipment, but researchers say it opened a new field instead.
The US supplies a quarter of EU plasma, and now they’re in a supply crisis. Although that doesn’t mean an imminent emergency in Brussels, the EU needs to get ahead in its external dependence on life-giving products like plasma.
