The World Health Organization said Omicron is likely to infect more than half of the population in Europe within the next two months, threatening healthcare systems. It warned that it is too early to consider Covid as an endemic virus.

German climate and economy minister Robert Habeck revealed a drastic deficit in the country's greenhouse-gas emissions reduction efforts.

As an independent watchdog, the EU Commission can launch infringement procedures, taking member states to the European Court of Justice if they do not comply. But all too often the watchdog just barks a little before returning to its kennel.

New research has discovered fundamental flaws in a key component of the European Union's flagship Emissions Trading System. The little-known 'Market Stability Reserve' fixes a problem of the past but amplifies future shocks and undermines market stability.

The EU has got next to nothing for €700 million of its tax-payers' money meant to help rule of law in the Western Balkans.

The new Dutch government has taken office, with left-leaning liberal Sigrid Kaag taking over the influential ministry of finance from fiscal hawk Wopke Hoekstra.

Poland is facing a deadline on Tuesday to spell out to the EU Commission how it wants to bring its domestic judicial reforms into line with the order from the European Court of Justice on how Warsaw disciplines judges.

Socialist and Greens MEPs on the internal market committee have criticised the European Commission's proposal on political advertising for what they see as a lack of ambition.

In recent months, 140,000 citizens and 152 MEPs have joined the #EUforAnimals campaign, demanding more prominence be given to animal welfare by making it explicit in the name of the relevant directorate-general and job title of the appropriate EU commissioner.

The Nato-Russia council will take place in Brussels on Wednesday, as western and Russian officials begin a series of meetings this week in an effort to de-escalate tensions over Ukraine's eastern border - where Russia has amassed troops.

Russia and the US have begun "complex" talks on European security, as the West dampened expectations for a positive outcome.

The EU's flagship naval operation risks losing permission to pursue pirates in Somalia's waters due to local politics.

While the EU is turning the Conference on the Future of Europe into another round in the outdated debate between eurofederalists and eurosceptics, President Biden has diplomatically endorsed the emergence of the Union as a democratic polity in international law.

Nearly 600,000 Macedonians moved abroad in the decades following the country's independence. In neighbouring Albania,1.7 million people, 37 percent of the population, have left the country in the last three decades.