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3 days ago
Several EU leaders have warned it would be bad timing for a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire — but said Europe might send peacekeepers in future. New foreign affairs chief, Kaja Kallas, said as the EU summit opened: "Any rush for negotiations too soon will actually be a bad deal for Ukraine".  
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16 minutes ago
A total of 720 MEPs represent the more than 440 million citizens in the EU — but it is really within the 20 committees and four subcommittees where the first steps of the political and legislative work of the European Parliament truly take place.
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22 minutes ago
Editor Elena Sánchez Nicolás explains the background to the latest EUobserver magazine, focussing on the European Parliament committees.
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A 'silent pandemic' the EU is not prepared for

2 years 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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Gaza's children paying 'high price' for war, UN envoy says

5 days ago
Without shelter from bombs, access to water, food, hygiene, healthcare, or education, Gaza's children are paying “a high price” in the war, UNICEF’s envoy for Palestine told EUobserver.
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Drainpipe of shame: How Orbán hypocrisy became a gay icon in Brussels

2 months ago
The drainpipe in Brussels where a far-right MEP fled a gay orgy still attracts tourists, who take pics to remember what Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán really represents.
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