Last month the Polish government, in a chilling move backed by the European Council, proposed suspending the right to asylum entirely. Across Europe, a “fortress mentality” is taking hold – Germany’s curbing of asylum-seeker benefits, France ramping up border checks, it seems the drawbridge is being pulled up across the continent, writes the Danish Refugee Council.

As a journalist who has spent years covering the intricacies of EU cohesion funds, it is disheartening to witness how often this policy is reduced to sensational headlines. In the last few days, the media has fixated on the prospect of cohesion funds being used for defence spending, sparking alarm without sufficient context.

EU states are facing new pressure to downgrade relations with Israel over human-rights abuses — but the sanctions are unlikely to go ahead.

The drainpipe in Brussels where a far-right MEP fled a gay orgy still attracts tourists, who take pics to remember what Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán really represents.

Every time EU leaders shake hands with Rwanda's president Paul Kagame, they embolden him to commit crimes against dissidents in Belgium, making themselves morally liable.

Legal scholars have dubbed it a "sleeping beauty" — a potent yet practically unused EU Parliament instrument akin to the EU's own Article 7, designed to safeguard the rule of law and the integrity of its institutions.