Several member states are putting forward restrictive Covid-19-related measures to try to control the surge of numbers of coronavirus cases, trying to avoid a second lockdown. Meanwhile, the global death toll from the novel coronavirus has reached one million.

Turkey has reportedly sent Syrian mercenaries to Azerbaijan, amid ongoing fighting with Armenia that threatens to draw in regional powers.

The draft proposal outlines an 'emergency brake' in case the member state under scrutiny thinks the procedure is partisan and not evidence-based.

The European Commission is banking on cooperation and coordination among EU states to help makes its new migration and asylum pact viable. But its plan is already being greeted with suspicion by more hardline anti-migrant countries like Austria and Hungary.

Dominic Fritz, the newly-elected mayor of Romania's Timisoara, holds no Romanian citizenship and no Romanian passport. In fact, he was born and raised in the Black Forest region of Germany, and lived in Berlin until 2019.

The EU's future relations with both the eastern and southern neighbourhood are at stake. A wrong signal to Belarus would be a wrong signal to all of the Eastern Partnership