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Poverty has a female face, MEPs agreed on Thursday, passing a resolution calling on both the EU Commission and member states to strengthen the gender perspective in their green and social plans. Only six male MEPs spoke at the debate.

The EU reached a provisional agreement that will give the bloc more powers to combat money laundering and terrorist financing through high-value assets and crypto.

Germany's unstinting support for Israel is not only rooted in responsibility for the Holocaust — the county is barely coming to terms with its own colonial genocide against the tribes of Namibia more than 100 years ago.

As the EU hopes to agree on further financial aid for Ukraine, fears are emerging over offering concessions to Hungary, which risk setting a dangerous precedent and the threats of legal challenges.

The EU climate advisory board, an independent scientific body, has urged phasing out fossil fuel subsidies and concluding the Green Deal pending files to ensure 2030 targets are met.

EU countries have provsionally agreed to launch a Red Sea naval mission alongside the US after Spain showed it wouldn't stand in the way.

The EU's silence on South Africa's legal challenge of "genocidal intent" against Israel underscores the geo-political tensions between the West and the Global South that risk being exacerbated by the conflict.

MEPs approved a negotiating text on new EU debt-and-spending rules during a plenary vote in Strasbourg, despite warnings from the leader of the Greens it was "economic, environmental, geopolitical and democratic suicide."

Extremist political messaging on clamping down on asylum ahead of elections may actually drive more people towards Europe, says a Vienna-based institute.

He's been dubbed a deserter and a traitor, but Charles Michel's desire to return to campaigning in Belgium and go to the European Parliament is good for Europe, good for the parliament and good for the European Council.

The Houthi militant group in Yemen is using the Gaza war to mask its own wild agenda, a former British diplomat has said, as the EU prepares to join the US in Red Sea clashes.

Greece was condemned by the European Court of Human Rights in a case involving the deadly 2014 shooting of a Syrian refugee by the Greek coast guard.

My role as a Brussels-based EU watcher became a lightning rod for just about everyone I met: fellow travelers, diplomats and officials, business leaders, students as well family, friends and colleagues.

The Belgian EU presidency is racing against the clock to improve conditions for gig workers — but why did the provisional agreement fall apart in the first place? Is it too late to reach a new one?

In his address to European Parliament, Belgian prime minister Alexander De Croo warned about the risk of a Trump re-election, singling out Europe's need for self-reliance. But his lukewarm remarks on the Green Deal sparked criticism.

A refrain of "defending" democracy and casting Polish prime minister Donald Tusk as a "dictator" is coming to characterise PiS's opposition strategy.

In 2023, the Nordic Council aid it was aiming to intensify efforts to combat food waste — but despite wanting to focus on this during the COP28, Norway has not yet passed a food waste law of its own.

Greens leader Philippe Lamberts MEP warns against new austerity and tells EUobserver he would 'do whatever is necessary to derail' EU fiscal rules proposal and 'ensure that there is no deal because we cannot afford to have a bad deal'.

State responses tend to emphasise the criminal justice system, which is largely reactive, has a less-than-perfect record in addressing antisemitic hate crimes, and has generally failed to build the confidence among Jewish citizens needed for victims to report hate crimes.

The chair of the European Parliament's culture committee has attacked mounting calls to ban Israel from Eurovision, as TV chiefs play wait-and-see on the Gaza war.