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23 hours ago
If elected, Donald Tusk promised a year ago he would make access to free, safe and legal abortion for all a reality within 100 days of coming into power. So why has nothing happened?
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42 minutes ago
The EU has been urged to use the bloc’s first summit with Gulf leaders on Wednesday to challenge the UAE and other states over their involvement in Sudan’s civil war. 
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42 minutes ago
The narrative framing of migration talks during this week's European Council summit make the discussions a waste of time for all those gathered.
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Capital Markets Union will not foot Europe’s climate bill, says report

3 months ago
In an effort to save money, the EU hopes private financiers will foot "most" of the climate bill. But a new report dispels these hopes, calling them "wishful thinking."
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Rule 241: the EU’s hidden ‘bombshell’ against anti-democratic forces

7 days ago
Legal scholars have dubbed it a "sleeping beauty" — a potent yet practically unused EU Parliament instrument akin to the EU's own Article 7, designed to safeguard the rule of law and the integrity of its institutions.
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A 'silent pandemic' the EU is not prepared for

1 year ago
"Mental health is the silent pandemic," Irish centre-right MEP Maria Walsh, who spearheads several parliament initiatives on mental health, said, arguing that the EU needs to have a strategy implemented in "weeks, not years".
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