Unless it changes course, the EU is about to make the same mistakes in Tunisia that it made in Egypt, writes Amnesty International. On 6 October, Tunisian president Kaies Saied faces re-election — he has already suspended parliament, dismissed the government, taken control of the country, arrested opponents, rewritten the constitution, and restricted media and NGOs.

The centre-right European People’s Party has upped the pressure on the EU Commission to postpone plans to apply new due diligence rules in order to tackle deforestation, describing the new regime as “a bureaucratic monster”. 

A Hungarian woman who helped to supply exploding pagers to Lebanon did consultancy work for an EU institution — but far less than she had claimed.

In a new paper, two economists argue that the EU needs a system of price controls and buffer stocks to prevent future inflation and shouldn't just leave it to the ECB to fight price rises through interest rates after the fact.

In an effort to save money, the EU hopes private financiers will foot "most" of the climate bill. But a new report dispels these hopes, calling them "wishful thinking."

EU leaders stuck by US president Joe Biden despite his striking gaffes in Washington, but behind the scenes diplomats fear he'll be forced to step aside.