EU rebukes Erdoğan for Greece 'threats'

EU trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis popped a bottle of champagne in early June 2023. After the failed ratification of an Economic Partnership Agreement with the East African Community in 2016, he finally could declare success. However, there's little to celebrate.

Wopke Hoekstra, EU commissioner designate for climate action, vowed to phase out EU fossil fuel subsidies in a hearing with the climate committee in the EU Parliament in Strasbourg.

When the rescuers arrived, they found a sea of corpses. The pictures of the coffins — many white and tiny — lined up in Lampedusa airport shocked the world and shook Europe's conscience.

EU foreign ministers held an unprecedented meeting in Kyiv on Monday to debunk stories the West was tired of helping Ukraine, but Hungary's Péter Szijjártó was conspicuous by his absence.

MEPs on the environmental committee will have three hours to grill the designated climate commissioner, the Netherlands' Wopke Hoekstra, on Monday.

The EU's border force Frontex shared the personal data of NGO staff with police in at least six cases after collecting information during debriefing interviews with asylum seekers as part of an anti-smuggling operation.