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MEPs have backed plans to detain irregularly present migrants outside the EU, as part of the new Returns Regulation.
Sometimes it benefits businesses and governments to play up the ‘duped consumer’ narrative.
Europe’s far right parties are winning more backing in the polls, and will have increasing influence on policy over the Ukraine war.
Sunday’s vote show that the growing presence of far-right parties in almost all member states, but the increase wasn’t the groundswell expected and conceals differences.
Italy’s prime minister won big in the European elections, leveraging her campaign to bring her exclusionary politics into the mainstream.
Julien Robin, a specialist in French parliamentary life, looks at what the surprise dissolution means for French politics.
European citizens have remarkably similar preferences on asylum policy, including being strongly in favour of asylum seekers being allowed to work.
European Parliament elections are held every five years and are often volatile. This week’s should be no exception.
The European parliament is committed to a two-state solution, but many European countries are following the US lead and denying Palestinian statehood for now.
The far-right Alternative for Germany is courting the youth vote on TikTok with great success, ahead of the elections in June.
The French have an ambivalent relationship to the European Union, expressing a strong feeling of European belonging on the one hand, and Euroscepticism toward institutions on the other.
The proposed EU asylum and migration reforms focus on securing borders and making it easier to deport people, with little protection for migrants and asylum seekers.
The decade of negotiations was driven more by local political considerations, than by what might be best for refugees who have risked everything.
Legendary European parliament president Simone Veil fought for women’s reproductive rights in France and in Brussels. Is her legacy about to be re-opened?
At the farmers’ protests in Brussels in February, there were some who demanded for authorities to cut back red tape, while others rallied against market concentration. But such a polarisation isn’t insurmountable.
The Treaty of Lisbon celebrates its 15th anniversary on 13 December. Looking back, experts agree that it played a big part in structuring the EU as we know it. It reinforced the role of Commission President…
Europe’s radical right and radical left share a distaste for the status quo – but while one turns disquiet into votes, the other fails to make an impact.
Brussels’ inability to tackle Hungary’s growing authoritarianism reveals a key weakness in the EU system.
The reasons for the prominence of the Ukraine war in the West are many – and include the Ukrainian government’s strategic efforts to tailor presentations of the conflict for Western sensibilities.
Oatly and Flora are fronting a petition to stop the EU getting even tougher on their packaging.



















