EU ambassadors are once again meeting in Brussels this Wednesday trying to agree on a new round of sanctions against Russia. But this time Austria, besides Hungary and Slovakia, has thrown a spanner in the works.

Complacent EU officials in Brussels may shrug off accusations of double standards as part of a new geopolitical reality. But others know that no amount of clever spin or PR can hide the difference in the EU’s treatment of Ukrainian and Palestinian lives, writes Shada Islam.

MEPs want to end unfair traineeships, triggering backlash from small businesses who warn the rules will strangle opportunity. But the real fight is yet to come: trilogues where the EU parliament and member states will have to find a compromise in what promises to be a tough negotiation over labour rights of Europe's next generation.

MEPs have called for stronger enforcement of digital rules and ways to reduce technological dependency on non-EU actors, amid concerns over external pressures that can undermine Europe’s digital sovereignty.

The centre-right European People's Party is siding with far-right groups to slash EU sustainability and corporate due diligence rules, while business leaders and former EU heavyweights are urging to keep climate and human rights reporting rules intact.

With far-right and conservative powers on the rise, discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people is still a sad truth in Europe. The European Commission's new strategy aims to stop that, but critics call out ineffective instruments.

The EU will slash steel imports by 47 percent in a bid to protect the bloc’s steel industry from chronic global oversupply, primarily from China, under new rules announced on Tuesday.

Austria's proposal to unfreeze €2bn of Russian assets has caused worry on creating a bad precedent, with Hungary and Slovakia also threatening to delay new EU sanctions

EU ambassadors are once again meeting in Brussels this Wednesday trying to agree on a new round of sanctions against Russia. But this time Austria, besides Hungary and Slovakia, has thrown a spanner in the works.

Complacent EU officials in Brussels may shrug off accusations of double standards as part of a new geopolitical reality. But others know that no amount of clever spin or PR can hide the difference in the EU’s treatment of Ukrainian and Palestinian lives, writes Shada Islam.

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The EU will slash steel imports by 47 percent in a bid to protect the bloc’s steel industry from chronic global oversupply, primarily from China, under new rules announced on Tuesday.

Austria's proposal to unfreeze €2bn of Russian assets has caused worry on creating a bad precedent, with Hungary and Slovakia also threatening to delay new EU sanctions

A Dutch appeals court has rejected X’s request for a gag order against a Dutch legal scholar — in a case challenging 'shadowbanning' under EU privacy and Digital Services Act rules.

The European Commission will unveil on Wednesday its new strategy for installing AI across many European sectors. Here are the main takeaways.

Efforts by the Hungarian authorities to lift immunity from three MEPs failed to muster enough support in the European Parliament — although one only scraped through by one vote, in what critics say was a politically-driven manoeuvre by Viktor Orban's government to use the judiciary to silence opposition.

If Russia leads the world in anything, it is in the dark art of psychological warfare. In its quest to restore Soviet-era geopolitical might, Moscow prefers to follow the principle of 'winning without fighting'. This principle rests on achieving one’s objectives through psychological, political, informational, and diplomatic means rather than conventional warfare, warns Anton Shekhovtsov.

This Tuesday marks two years since Hamas carried out the deadliest terrorist attack in Israel’s history. In these two years, Israel’s retaliatory offensive on the Gaza Strip has killed more than 67,000 Palestinians and displaced around 90 percent of Gaza’s roughly two million people.

"We do not represent the families of the hostages. We represent the State of Israel," the ambassador coldly replied, only to then complain that our resolution supported international law and the work of the International Criminal Court to prosecute war criminals on all sides, recalls the then MENA advisor to Renew Europe.

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Our latest edition of the Secrecy Tracker exposes new cases of EU secrecy: refusals to disclose documents on Israel’s defence funding and its Gaza reports, a so-called 'fair solution' limiting transparency of Big Tech, Ursula von der Leyen’s deleted texts, stalled document-access reforms, and lawsuits over hidden environmental rules.

A Dutch appeals court has rejected X’s request for a gag order against a Dutch legal scholar — in a case challenging 'shadowbanning' under EU privacy and Digital Services Act rules.

The European Commission will unveil on Wednesday its new strategy for installing AI across many European sectors. Here are the main takeaways.

Forever chemicals are everywhere: bloodstream, drinking water and outdoor clothing. A new study shows that they are also in European officials.

The EU has frozen talks on Israel sanctions due to a US ceasefire plan, as the daily "nightmare" of Israeli military operations in Gaza enters its third year.