18 EU countries face possible court action on asylum

Blocking access to humanitarian aid in Ukraine is yet another example of the Age of Impunity that has defined the past decade of conflict worldwide.

Prolonging the use of coal is likely to increase emissions in the short term — but it also could accelerate the rollout of renewables.

Campaigners say pesticides lobbyists are trying to rollback green farming rules but Europe "can't just drop everything we've already tried to develop for sustainable development of farming in the future," says EU agriculture commissioner.

Right-wing music festivals and mixed martial arts events have become key venues for funding extremism. A plan from Germany's interior minister Nancy Faeser can help tackle that.

Was Bush right, to want to offer Ukraine immediate Nato membership? Or was Europe right, to offer it as a distant prospect? There were certainly no answers on offer in that hall of mirrors in Bucharest.

Russia's EU ambassador is the Kremlin's top asset in Brussels. So if the West is serious about cleaning house, it's time for Vladimir Chizhov to go.