Philippines cuts EU funds that 'interfere' in domestic policies

"Inciting or publicly provoking acts of serious violence" against Israel "in support of Hamas" to be made illegal in EU, alongside a new blacklist of Hamas money-men in Lebanon and beyond.

Hungary is ratcheting up its rhetoric against migrants and LGBTi rights amid an on-going standoff with the EU over frozen funds following an acrimonious debate in the European Parliament on stripping Budapest of its EU voting rights.

Journalists covering Gaza from afar face limited access, contested facts, lobby pressure and a power imbalance. But when they let these distort their coverage, it ceases to reflect reality and start to shape it, in unintended ways.

The EU's new due diligence laws, designed to address deforestation and human rights abuses in supply chains, risk having an uneven effect on African economies and farming, as governments and industry scramble to prepare compliance regimes.

EU countries are preparing new sanctions against extremist Israeli settlers as well as Palestinian group Hamas.

The Socialists & Democrats have named Luxembourg's EU commissioner for jobs and social rights Nicolas Schmit as their lead candidate — or so-called Spitzenkandidat — for the June European elections.