The revamped Renewable Energy Directive next month should set an EU binding renewable energy target of at least 50% by 2030, paving the way towards transition to a 100 percent renewable-energy based system by 2040.

The EU and US have ended their oldest trade war in a show of transatlantic unity one day before US president Joe Biden meets his Russian counterpart.

Thousands of protestors demonstrated against the proposals in Budapest in front of the parliament this week, denouncing the Orbán government's efforts to conflate homosexuality with paedophilia.

A new report from the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency revealed the difficulties people in vulnerable situations face accessing vaccines - from language barriers, to limitations tied to residence, or legal status.

The gap between EU resources available on the one hand, and the persistence of poverty and homelessness on the other hand, is what makes these figures more than an embarrassment: it raises them to the level of a human-rights crisis.

China has, for the first time, joined Russia as an explicit danger to Western allies after a Nato summit in Brussels on Monday.

Armin Laschet, Angela Merkel's would-be-heir after German's September election, said he would prefer to govern with the liberals - as the Greens continued their slump in the polls.

European Parliament president David Sassoli says there needs to be a European search-and-rescue system involving member states, EU agencies and civil society.

After EU member states decided to extend subsidies for some cross-border natural gas projects, green groups and some member states had pinned their hopes on MEPs to step in and improve the rules.

As president Joe Biden, EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and EU Council president Charles Michel meet today, more than seven years have passed since the last opportunity for leaders from both sides of the Atlantic to engage face-to-face.

Yemen is experiencing critical days, as negotiations for a ceasefire are ongoing. Now it the time for Europe to put pressure on Iran, Yemen's foreign minister told EUobserver.

Harsh words on Brexit overshadowed a G7 summit in the UK this weekend, which also pledged more vaccines for poor countries and criticised China on forced labour.

Former French prime minister François Fillon is preparing to work for a Russian oil firm, in just the latest case of high-level EU-Russia revolving doors.

A new report from NGO Global Witness reveals how the Hydrogen Europe industry association is lobbying top EU officials to weaken a key climate-focused law known as the Renewable Energy Directive - currently under revision.