The EU ombudsman accuses the EU asylum agency of mismanaging the asylum cases of vulnerable applicants in Greece, despite strong indications of human trafficking among those arriving on Samos island
Putin appears haggard and mis-states Russian advances (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,593)Newly-surfaced battlefield maps and open-source intelligence comparisons expose how the Kremlin’s own briefings distort front lines for Vladimir Putin, even as Russian bloggers quietly concede his latest “liberation” claim is at least premature.
The alliance of 11 green groups plans to push the EU Commission to open infringement proceedings against governments that continue to allow bottom trawling in protected areas.
Russia is too weak militarily to invade any Nato country. It is building some military infrastructure, notably on the border with Finland, but it has no soldiers to put there. Whatever Russia is planning is in a different domain, a war of nerves, aimed at our brains, not our territory.
In 2026, a woman worker in average working in the EU still earns 11.1 percent less her male counterpart. Not because she works less, or contributes less, but because the system has been carefully designed to keep her in the dark about it.
By quietly rerouting sanctioned timber through China, Kazakhstan and EU neighbours, Russian suppliers are testing whether Europe’s fractured enforcement can uphold its own wartime embargoes.
From a Remigration Summit in Portugal to a Save Europe Act petition in Brussels, a coordinated effort is being made to mainstream a once-fringe idea that experts say breaches fundamental rights.
THIS WEEK: MEPs weigh triggering probe into far-right ESN party, as plenary debates Gaza reconstructionThe European Parliament is in Strasbourg this week, ahead of the summer break. MEPs will be debating and voting on policies, including on air-passenger rights.
An attack on Poland would be Putin’s last failThe US has warned Poland that Russia was plotting to attack it in a “few months” time, which would be the fastest way to end the Ukraine war, in president Vladimir Putin’s ultimate fail. The Russian emperor would go home from Poland not just naked, but also with a broken nose.
The EU seems to be fully caught up in what has been defined as the “deterrence trap”: a full focus on restrictive measures that might offer short-term political relief but that will prove ineffective in the long run, providing extremist movements the tools to erode the political centre.
Heart disease, cancer, menopause and endometriosis: millions of European women are paying the price of late diagnoses, underfunded research and medicines never properly tested on their bodies.
As hospitals overheat, schools close and thousands of elderly people die, France’s Greens and far right are tearing into each other over whether mass air‑conditioning is a lifeline or a dangerous illusion.
Officials say that, to appease the US, ‘burden-shifting’ rather than simply ‘burden-sharing’ will be one of the main themes in Ankara as the EU and others face pressure to ramp up their own production of defence and security equipment.
Russia is likely preparing for a massive autumn mobilisation of over a million soldiers (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,589)Moscow pushes ahead with a huge post‑election mobilisation to offset losses and stalled gains in Donbas. Europe could face a newly swollen Russian army whose strain on Russia’s economy and stability is impossible to predict.
The EU methane regulation “has become a defining test of Europe’s ability to maintain ambitious climate and energy policies” the US lawmakers wrote.
Data centres are mostly not built to withstand hostile attack, and the Iranian drones that struck Amazon’s sites in the Gulf showed that threat is no longer hypothetical. Cybersecurity incidents are also rising, and they tend to target data centres’ power and cooling systems and their interface with the grid.
Between 2006 and 2016, the number of homicides fell by 56 percent in Glasgow alone. And across Scotland as a whole, the homicide rate dropped by more than a third.
With hundreds of pro-Fidesz journalists laid off and state propaganda cash drying up, Hungarians could soon see a radically different media landscape—if independent outlets survive the coming financial squeeze.
Austrian expert on Russian hybrid warfare Pichler warns that Austria’s cult‑like neutrality and apathetic middle class have turned the country into a playground for Kremlin spin.
EU commission travels to Afghanistan. Who, what, when?The European Commission apparently has no clue that one of its senior officials went to Afghanistan in January to meet with the Taliban, the latest indictment of an institution that continues to railroad accountability while proclaiming itself to be transparent.
