The EU is in talks with a raft of countries from Africa and elsewhere who are concerned about the upcoming implementation of the bloc’s new carbon border tax. Speaking on Thursday (30 May), following ...

Meta is struggling to curb the spread of political ads containing hate speech and racist conspiracies, with the commission expressing "serious doubts" about Meta's compliance with recent election ...

The EU's funding for sexual reproductive health and rights lags behind the bloc’s professed policy commitments on health, gender equality and human rights, according to new research published on ...

EU countries unanimously agreed on Thursday (30 May) to leave the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), a long-standing international agreement that protects fossil-fuel investments. The treaty was designed in ...

Critics of the regime of Viktor Orbán often argue that the Hungarian government controls the media, drowning out independent voices. His political allies, meanwhile, claim that press freedom is ...

A new era of crackdown in Belarus has defence lawyers either ending up in jail or fleeing the country. The New York-based Human Rights Watch has described the scale as unprecedented, ...

Toxic meetings on Russia and social-media tantrums seem set to mark Hungary's EU Council presidency, which might also see Gazprom logos on prime minister Viktor Orbán's favourite football team.

Already difficult talks between the EU and Senegal on a controversial fisheries agreement have been further complicated by the decision by the EU to issue a ‘yellow card’ warning to Dakar over its ...

Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni has become both an important potential ally for EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen's efforts to guarantee her re-election in office — and for Hungarian ...

Tech, climate, illiberalism. Any one of those is enough to fill a policymaker’s pl ...

One of the important but largely unnoticed broken promises of leading European People's Party candidate Ursula Von der Leyen and her European Commission is the one to stop the double standards on ...