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Dutch MEP Mohammed Chahim is rapporteur forthe proposed carbon tax on imported goods which is planned to come into force in 2026. It is one of the biggest and most complex legislative proposals Europe has ever drawn up.

A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN nuclear watchdog, is due to arrive on Tuesday at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant to conduct a safety mission, following weeks of uncertainty in the wake of the Russian withdrawal from the area in March. Rafael Grossi, head of the IAEA, will head up a mission of experts to "deliver equipment, conduct radiological assessments and restore safeguards monitoring systems."

Robust oil and gas revenue enabled Russia to go on a military spending spree ahead of its Ukraine invasion, according to researchers in Sweden.

Green liberal newcomer Robert Golob took advantage of Slovenian prime minister Janez Janša unpopular illiberal image and soundly defeated him in the Slovenian elections on Sunday.

The EU's judicial cooperation agency, Eurojust, is to join forces with the International Criminal Court in The Hague to document Russian war crimes in Ukraine under a new agreement unveiled Monday. The deal was meant to send "a clear message that all efforts will be undertaken to effectively gather evidence ... and bring those responsible to justice," Eurojust said. Lithuanian, Polish, and Ukrainian prosecutors are to lead the Eurojust taskforce.

The EU unveiled a plan to restrict the use of harmful substances — deemed by campaigners as the "largest-ever ban of toxic chemicals".

Russia has expelled 40 German diplomats in a tit-for-tat move for earlier German expulsions of suspected spies, its foreign ministry said Monday. "Russia is ... harming itself", German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock said, noting that the German embassy in Moscow had been trying to mend ties. EU institutions also recently expelled 19 Russian diplomats, with Russia's EU envoy, Vladimir Chizhov, likewise threatening the EU mission in Moscow with looming retaliation.

The European Research Council, an offshoot of the EU Commission, has warned 98 British academics that their grants, totalling €172m, would not be paid out if the UK did not ratify its associate membership of the EU's Horizon Europe science programme, The Guardian reports. Ratification has been delayed due to the UK's non-implementation of the Northern Ireland protocol, a part of the Brexit deal governing customs matters.

Activists from environmental NGOs Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion briefly blocked a tanker from delivering Russian oil to a Norwegian firm Monday in protest at the Ukraine war. "I'm shocked that Norway operates as a free port for Russian oil, which we know finances Putin's warfare," Greenpeace Norway's Frode Pleym said, Reuters reports. The buyer, Esso Norway, said it bought the oil before the war started and had now stopped purchases.

US president Joe Biden named Bridget Brink, who currently represents the US in Slovakia, as the new US ambassador to Ukraine, as Washington plans to repon its embassy in the Ukrainian capital, the White House said in a statement Monday. The position must be confirmed by the Senate. The announcement came after US secretary of state Antony Blinken and US defense secretary Lloyd Austin made an undisclosed trip to Ukraine.

Around 50 European lawmakers from across wrote to Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz, demanding he cut Russian gas imports.

I was spied on using Pegasus while being an MEP in the EU Parliament — this attack on the home of European democracy must have consequences.

The European Commission last year received 2,142 alerts of dangerous non food-related products. Most of those dealt with cars, followed by toys and electrical appliances and equipment. In a statement, the commission said the issue with cars mostly involved "detection of technical problems" Toys mostly had issues with dangerous chemicals and button batteries, it said.

Former Green MEP Magic Magid talks about organising more evidence-based research to help tackle the devastating impacts of the climate crisis on European communities of colour.

European leaders welcomed France's re-election of centrist president Emmanuel Macron Sunday (24 April) as a vote of confidence in the EU.

Slovenia's populist and illiberal prime minister Janez Janša faced a humiliating defeat in Sunday's elections, when his SDS party got just 22.5 percent of the vote, compared to the environmentalist Freedom Movement on 38.5 percent, according to an exit poll by the Mediana Institute. Freedom Movement leader Robert Golob needs to find a coalition partner to secure power, but finished just three seats short of a majority in parliament.

Centrist French president Emmanuel Macron won Sunday's elections, taking 55 percent of the vote compared to far-right contender Marine Le Pen on 45 percent, according to French exit polls cited in Belgian media. His win was much smaller than in 2017, when he reached 66 percent, amid a lower than usual voter turnout this time round.

The EU Commission is set to come with proposals against lawsuits launched in an effort to silence journalists, civil society or putting pressure on publications.

France has said Russian mercenaries were burying civilian dead in makeshift graves near a French army base in Gossi, Mali, and claiming via proxies on social media that French forces had committed a massacre. "It is representative of multiple information attacks French soldiers have faced for several months," the French military staff said, AFP reports. MPs in Niger started voting Friday on letting French soldiers relocate there to fight jihadists.

A Russian general, Rustam Minnekaev, said Friday according to Russian newswire Interfax, Russia wanted to conquer Ukrainian land all the way to Moldova, where Russophones were being persecuted — a pretext previously used for invasions. "Control over the south of Ukraine is another way out to Transnistria, where there are also facts of oppression of the Russian-speaking population," he said, prompting speculation if the threat was real or propaganda intimidation.