South Eastern states in EU by 2014, says Schüssel

European Parliament calls for a ban on golden visas, an extension of the sectors covered by EU rules, or for the new authority to be able to blacklist third countries.

We're trying out a new format, in which we publish an op-ed and a counter-op-ed. This week, we have the S&D group president responding to EPP chairman Manfred Weber's call for stricter financial screening of NGOs to combat corruption.

Frustration over the lack of cooperation from member states and the European Commission has left MEPs probing spyware in the EU upset and demanding answers.

"It is the truth that Russian aggression targets first," Lithuania's president Gitanas Nausėda warned MEPs in a speech in Strasbourg, adding that "ignoring the past is never a good idea."

Pro-transparency MEPs are asking probing questions into possible conflict of interest between a senior EU commission official and Qatar, following revelations his business class trips were paid by Doha while negotiating a market access deal for its national airline.

A new exhibition at the Deutsches Historiches Musuem in Berlin unveils industrial photography of Germany's steel, coal, car, chemical and textile industries from the 1950s to 1980s — some in East Germany, some in West. But which was which?