Thursday
1st Oct 2020
Central European countries were quick to point out to the EU Commission president that they do not like her migration proposal. The asylum overhaul hit its first hurdle just 24 hours after it was announced.
China denies it, but Uighur exiles who fled to EU states say they are still being terrorised by threatening phone-calls, SMS-es, and other forms of "refugee-espionage".
If EU citizens want to know the truth, then journalists need protection from malicious litigation, as EUobserver joined the list of targets, over an article about the late Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
EU protection of LGBTI people in Poland has enraged members of the ruling elite, who hit back with apocalyptic rhetoric.
Poland might uphold a treaty against domestic violence after all, its ruling party has said, amid an outcry by the EU and Council of Europe.
The European Commission new security strategy especially focusses on critical infrastructures, cybersecurity, terrorism, child abuse and drugs. A joint cyber unit and stronger mandate for Europol is planned.
EU countries agree on the need to better coordinate their Covid-19 measures, but the issue remains highly sensitive as health competencies belong to member states.
A German court just heard crucial witness testimony about Syria's state torture programme - in the first such trial of its kind in the world.
Buying an EU passport does not give you impunity from visa-bans or asset-freezes, officials have said, as citizenship sales multiply.
New fraudster schemes in Europe include EU funds for environmental or sustainability projects and using the procurement and tendering process to get access to EU funds for illegal purposes.
Poland is preparing to throw out the last independent judges from its Supreme Court, a Polish judges' association fears.
A whistleblower who exposed massive bribery at a Monaco-based oil firm is now being hunted in Europe - in a test of its extradition system.
The Slovak Supreme Court is to decide who killed journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée in 2018 after a lower court let the prime suspect off the hook.
Facebook and other big US firms have no intention of respecting the landmark ruling by the EU's highest court on data transfers to the US. The court in July dramatically scrapped Privacy Shield, citing US surveillance concerns.
Italy's Covid-19 emergency highlighted its reliance on undocumented migrants picking fruit and vegetables in conditions some have called "modern slavery".
Not only must the issue of missing persons be understood as a moral and social catastrophe - which it certainly is - but as a threat to global security.
It is time to show Poland's homophobic ruling party that it isn't possible to erode human rights and our common European values without a price.
Ethnicity, religion, and history are too often markers of exclusion and disenfranchisement for the estimated 15 million people of African descent in Europe, @Jallow_M writes.
Last weekend, LGBTI activists in Poland were brutally beaten up by the police, but no one in the EU institutions had the guts to speak out about it.
LGBTI activists are facing fines or prison for hanging rainbow flags on statues in Poland, amid hardening feelings on EU values.
As the EU struggles to stop breaches of rule-of-law, and democratic backsliding, in some member states, the European Parliament plans to propose one single overarching tool to effectively monitor rogue capitals.
Poland heading for at least three more years of full control by the increasingly un-European Law and Justice party after Sunday's election.
Jihadist and extreme far-right groups were the most dangerous, but Irish nationalists also posed a threat, according to a new EU report on terrorism.
If the European Commission is seriously committed to its fundamental values, it is time to put words into practice and condemns unlawful returns and violence at its external borders and demands perpetrators of such illegal acts are held to account.
Three MEPs received numerous death threats in the Czech Republic for asking questions about how EU funds are being spent. One of them had his entire family under police protection after people threatened to murder his four children.
The EU has threatened to cut pandemic-recovery funds to Polish regions on grounds of gay-bashing declarations, opening a new front in its clash with Kaczyński's "Catholic state".
The European Commission's data-mining tool, known as a Arachne - used to weed out fraud and conflicts of interests of EU funds - may become compulsory for member states.
Poland has "crossed the rubicon" with its first political trial of a judge, in violation of an EU court injunction, Polish judges have said.
Protests against racism and police brutality have spread across European cities despite coronavirus restrictions, following a brutal US-police killing.
While I do live in a reality in which I do belong to an ethnic minority, and because of that reality, I am discriminated against, ethnically, I do not believe this to be absolute.
Recruitment rules for member states to nominate people to become European prosecutors may have to be changed because Malta cannot find enough eligible candidates.
Estimates report that more than 13,000 foreign women and children are held in camps in north-west Syria. Many EU citizens who once have fled their home to join the ranks of the Islamic State are counted among the detainees.
Most member states committed to opening borders and related travel restrictions by mid-June, following recent calls by the European Commission to restore freedom of movement.
