The EU Commission has unveiled its first-ever housing plan to tackle soaring prices across Europe. With housing prices up 53 percent since 2010 and short-term rentals nearly doubling since 2018, Brussels wants to see 650,000 new units annually across the bloc.

The collapse of the Bulgarian government last week following massive anti-graft protests puts in sharp relief a state captured by deep corruption that has for years served the interests of a ruling elite. 

The European Parliament supported the idea from a citizen's initiative to provide accessible abortion for all EU women.

EU states are struggling with upcoming border rules that critics say could led to detention-like centres. Under the new regime authorities will have only seven days to screen a prospective asylum seeker.

A French banker inside Euroclear, who flew to Russia 155 times for "private" reasons, allegedly tried to connect the company's CEO, Valérie Urbain, with Russian spies and threatened her when she declined, according to an investigation by EUobserver, Humo, De Morgen, and Dossier Center.

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