EU agrees future human rights sanctions

The European Parliament is seeking to launch negotiations on key asylum reforms with member states as early as next week. The demand follows Thursday's breakthrough political agreement in Luxembourg among EU interior ministers.

After several attempts to reach a common position, the EU Council could finally reach an agreement on the platform workers' rules at the upcoming ministerial meeting — but disagreements over the employment status of these workers remain sharp.

The EU has a rare opportunity to affect change in Laos because of its upcoming ASEAN chairmanship. Call out the communist party's abuses before the EU is compelled to play nice next year.

With many of Russia's EU lawyers based in Brussels, Belgian bar chief Plasschaert explains why he'd work on an anti-sanctions case: "There are no good or bad clients, the only duty of a lawyer is to defend their client".

Transparency campaigners say the new ethics body proposed by the European Commission will do little to prevent corruption at the EU institutions. The proposal comes six months after allegations of a Qatari corruption affair involving a former European Parliament vice-president.

Spanish company profits are driving inflation. That is the conclusion reached by the Spanish Economic and Social Council (CES) in the annual report on the socioeconomic and labour situation in the country.