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.

Belgium's prime minister will start his EU summit morning under pressure to say 'no' to using frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, whatever the legal guarantees.

The EU’s top court has thrown out a claim filed by more than 400 former MEPs against a decision to halve the payments from their controversial voluntary pension scheme — that would landed the European taxpayer with a bill of more than €200m. 

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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