The EU has unveiled plans to expand its carbon border levy to cover car parts and washing machines, in a bid to strengthen a law that is “like a good cheese with some holes in it,” said the bloc’s environment chief on Wednesday. 

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated to EU leaders that there are bigger risks than lawsuits if Europe doesn't act against Russia by using its frozen assets, at the at the December European Council summit.

A major dispute over the fate of a trade deal with the South American Mercosur bloc was dominating an EU leaders’ summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday, after thousands of farmers protested outside the EU institutions. 

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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