Next week, when the European Parliament holds hearings for commissioners-designate, it should insist that they recognise the erosion of national democracies as a profound, home-grown threat to the Union and promise to tackle it head-on with the powerful tools already at their disposal, write four professors of international law at Princeton, Georgetown, Dublin and Hertie universities.

The UN refugee agency says EU 'return hubs' in foreign countries may work as an incentive for rejected asylum seekers in Europe to go home.

The EU needs a joint intelligence service, amid the mounting threat of a future Russian attack, Finland's former president has said in a landmark report. 

In an effort to save money, the EU hopes private financiers will foot "most" of the climate bill. But a new report dispels these hopes, calling them "wishful thinking."

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.

"Mental health is the silent pandemic," Irish centre-right MEP Maria Walsh, who spearheads several parliament initiatives on mental health, said, arguing that the EU needs to have a strategy implemented in "weeks, not years".