Sunday
25th Jun 2017
EU leaders will get their first chance at the summit to assess whether the Franco-German motor of European integration has been refuelled by the election of French president Emmanuel Macron.
The Netherlands is hosting a meeting for nine small EU member states on the eve of this week's European summit. After Brexit, the Dutch will lose one of their key allies.
Outgoing MEP Mariya Gabriel made mostly general remarks about the need to “complete the digital single market”, but did not bump into any trouble.
EU ministers are due to discuss the “objective criteria” for where to relocate the two London-based EU agencies after Brexit, but there is nothing to prevent horse-trading.
Sylvie Goulard - as well as two other former centrist MEPs, who are now ministers - is suspected of having paid party members with European Parliament money.
The Baltics and Slovenes will not attempt to host the currently London-based European Medicines Agency or European Banking Authority.
In their first meeting, the EU's Michel Barnier and Brexit minister David Davis agreed that talks on future relations will start only when "sufficient progress" has been made on divorce proceedings.
Mariya Gabriel, a Bulgarian MEP, is designated to take up the EU commission's digital affairs portfolio, although she has little experience with that file.
As Brexit negotiations start today with the first EU member ever to leave the bloc, the level of uncertainty on what comes next remains as high as on Brexit referendum day almost one year ago.
Before focusing on citizens' rights, negotiators Barnier and Davis will discuss - in French and English - about the structure of talks in their first official negotiating session in Brussels on Monday.
Trust is perhaps the most important resource and the key to building successes, but new Nordic research indicates that challenges may lie ahead in the digital age.
Pressure is mounting for social media platforms to remove any online content deemed to incite terrorism. Draft conclusions, seen by EUobserver, have made the issue a top priority in leaders' talks next week.
Only 50 of 751 members showed up at a speech by the president of one of the nations most threatened by climate change.
Northern Irish unionists are called "nuts" in the EU parliament, but the DUP's voting record is close to that of the Conservatives, as the UK tries to forge its Brexit coalition.
Top MEPs discussed a possible renovation or even a complete reconstruction, but decided not to make any decisions yet.
UPDATED: MEPs approved a new system to inform consumers about the energy efficiency of products. The most important change is abolishing the most recent change to a scale that goes up to A+++.
Two Conservative and two Labour members will leave the European Parliament for the House of Commons. The chair of the committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection is now open.
EU commission defends shifting money from research and energy baskets to defence fund, saying projects will not be delayed as a consequence.
Revelations in France are surfacing that centrist MEPs from the Democratic Movement may have unlawfully used EU parliament funds to pay assistants working for the national political party.
The European Parliament inquiry committee on tax evasion and money laundering had its one-year anniversary.
Everyone agrees that the Common Agricultural Policy should be simpler, but it is complex by design. Brexit will complicate things even more.
People seem more worried in the Brexit debate about the relocation of the European Medicines Agency building, than the more important issue of risks to European public health.
Far-right parties around Europe have managed to turn the passport-free Schengen area into a game of political hot potato despite its numerous benefits.
All five Nordic leaders told EUobserver that Europe needs to invest more in its security. Sweden and Finland want to do it via the EU, but Norway wants to keep Nato centre stage.
The EU budget should be used for military research and the bloc could become a defence alliance akin to Nato, the European Commission is poised to say.
Anti-smoking activists fear that tobacco lobbyists will neuter an EU tracking requirement to counter illicit trade, by trying to influence technical talks in Brussels.
The European Parliament is currently fine-tuning its negotiating position on the Commission's proposal from September 2016 for a mandatory transparency register. Sadly, so far it seems to prefer empty statements to bold action.
The EU executive calls on member states to create an EU finance minister, a eurozone treasury and to start issuing common bonds.
Olaf chief suggested EU Parliament should consider changing internal rules on hiring assistants due to number of allegations.
Each member of the European Parliament gets €4,342 every month, mainly to fund an office in their own country. But many of these offices seem nowhere to be found.
EU commission head made new concessions on tax justice, but denied responsibility for Luxembourg tax-dodging schemes when he led the country.
