As Donald Trump gambles on chaos at home and Vladimir Putin’s missiles pound Ukrainian cities, Timothy Snyder warns that Americans now face a new, self-inflicted 9/11-style test of whether they will – again – react exactly as the terrorists hope.
Just consider this – after almost four decades of EU-funded research, just 10 projects out of 145,983 have focused specifically on endometriosis, a condition affecting an estimated 10-15 percent of women of reproductive age, writes Renew Europe MEP Billy Kelleher.
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Performers of works authored by others are in a particularly precarious position when it comes to AI training on their work. How can the EU protect them?
Europe’s challenge is not only to protect critical infrastructure and deter Russian aggression, but also to maintain credibility by clearly establishing what Russia has actually done.
“Faced with this situation, where issues were being held hostage at the expense of people’s suffering, I chose to withdraw my proposal. Dignity is not for sale,” said Belgium’s normally mild-mannered foreign minister.
From who cares for Europe’s elderly to who picks its crops, Pablo Rojas Coppari argues that closing regular migration routes today will silently undercut the continent’s own ageing societies tomorrow.
Anthropic AI has joined the Ukraine war, after Russia took advantage (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,660)Russia’s use of a Western AI model to probe Ukrainian defences and automate drone warfare exposes a new front where Silicon Valley tools now shape risks and leverage in Europe’s largest war.
This year’s State of the Union address was expected to contain social media restrictions to greater safeguard children in light of sustained harm, and sometimes, deaths. Recently, however, Ursula von der Leyen’s tune seems to have changed.
The lead MEP on Emissions Trading Scheme reform has set out plans to soften the EU Commission’s draft and give industries more time to adjust.
By slashing the powers of Fidesz’s regional barons and kicking out a fifth of Russia’s embassy staff, Péter Magyar is trying to recast Hungary’s role in both its own hinterland and the wider European security game.
With two blocs neck-and-neck, Sweden’s election could cement a new model in Europe where mainstream conservatives openly govern with the far right, reshaping EU debates on migration, energy and security.
Belgium’s immigration minister has gone on the warpath against evacuating 13 students from Gaza, but they might still be flying out despite her anti-Arab and pro-Israel dog-whistling.
Ukraine’s financial crisis resurrects Europe’s bitter dilemma on Russian frozen assetsThe dire financial situation of Ukraine, ahead of what is expected to be a difficult winter with a possible further Russian mobilisation, has reopened the discussion on whether to use Russian frozen assets — raising difficult questions over legality, financial stability and Europe’s leverage in any future peace deal.
Despite increased calls to curb migration, asylum application numbers have been following a downward trend, due to geopolitical circumstances and EU cooperation with third countries. Migrants deaths on the journey, however, are far from dropping.
An Austrian national who helped document rights violations at the Greek Turkey border in 2020 is suing the EU’s data protection watchdog over allegations it failed to protect her rights after Europol collected her personal information amid a Greek criminal case, for which she was later exonerated.
The conflict in the Middle East has pushed up energy-related inflation by 14.3 percent year-on-year
The EU Commission says its ‘omnibus’ bill published on Thursday (10 September), will build on the special legal status that the so-called ‘outermost regions’ of the 27-member bloc have.
Putin spent over €110bn on Ukraine war so far in 2026, up one-third on last year (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,659)New budget data and battlefield videos reveal a Russia quietly scrambling to finance soaring war costs, hide territorial setbacks and defend supposedly “safe” assets thousands of kilometres from the front.
As Ursula von der Leyen gears up to talk up her data centre plans in the State of the Union address next Wednesday (16 September), MEPs must question who will own and benefit from these data centres.
The Viiankiaapa peat bog in Finland faces permanent destruction for a short-term mining project. Even more worryingly, this could be a dangerous test case for the interests of mining for minerals overriding the public interest to preserve nature.
