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3 days ago
Frontex’s 20th anniversary is not a cause for celebration, write David Yambio and Josephine Solanki: Despite calls for accountability, the EU border agency remains heavily criticised for covering up rights violations.
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5 hours ago
Amid fears of further escalation in the Middle East, EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell has urged “to stop impunity” and called on partners to put pressure on Israel to avoid further atrocities.
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Hungary's Viktor Orbán has sided with the Kremlin instead of the EU over Sunday’s disputed elections in Georgia — but EU leaders are still going to Budapest next week.
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the implementation of the trade provisions of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA)

A delegation of MEPs from the Committee on Foreign Affairs will travel to London to discuss of global and regional significance

A MEP delegation from the Subcommittee on Security and Defence will be in London for talks on how to strengthen EU-UK cooperation in the security and defence field

the implementation of the trade provisions of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA)

A MEP delegation from the Subcommittee on Security and Defence will be in London for talks on how to strengthen EU-UK cooperation in the security and defence field

A delegation of MEPs from the Committee on Foreign Affairs will travel to London to discuss of global and regional significance

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Capital Markets Union will not foot Europe’s climate bill, says report

3 months ago
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."
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Rule 241: the EU’s hidden ‘bombshell’ against anti-democratic forces

19 days ago
Legal scholars have dubbed it a "sleeping beauty" — a potent yet practically unused EU Parliament instrument akin to the EU's own Article 7, designed to safeguard the rule of law and the integrity of its institutions.
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A 'silent pandemic' the EU is not prepared for

2 years ago
"Mental health is the silent pandemic," Irish centre-right MEP Maria Walsh, who spearheads several parliament initiatives on mental health, said, arguing that the EU needs to have a strategy implemented in "weeks, not years".
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