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Turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections on 14 May will show whether Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's decade of relentless state interference with the media has paid off. Or whether a new generation of journalists finally taste freedom?

Nearly half of active disabled people of working age are not in paid employment. And yet they face extra costs each year, earn less, and if they work, they risk losing their disability benefits.

Russia is gaining power in the Central African Republic as the EU pulls out, amid similar developments in neighbouring Sudan.

In the Czech Republic, the extravagant promises of Chinese investment never materialised and the former president Miloš Zeman's sycophancy toward Xi Jinping provoked a wide revulsion. In contrast, Slovakia has avoided a real debate about its relationship with China.

The ability to use different foreign policy discourses is the EU's biggest asset. It keeps a systemic rival like China on its toes, while signalling to the US that Europe has its own interests.

EU finance ministers meet in Stockholm to negotiate new spending rules, with frugal Germany expected to clash with France and Italy. Meanwhile the proposal has been criticised by economists for not leaving enough room for climate investment.

With 60 percent of African countries spending more on debt repayment than on national healthcare, the EU should use Global Gateway financing to address structural issues rather than conversations about finance.

Nobody in Belgium wants Russian "blood diamonds" any more, but the next round of EU sanctions still won't ban them.

Workers are ageing and there is a lack of young people to replace them — is the sector attractive enough right now? The Commission is already reviewing the regulation (and the obstacles).

The EU Commission has proposed an overhaul of its pharma-industry rules, aiming to cut medicine prices and even out access to new drugs across Europe.

The EU Commission's proposed new debt rules give capitals more power over their own spending, but still envisage tough fines for profligates.

Tests on using the EU budget to support defence research have delivered scarce results, says the EU's financial watchdog.

Our muslim youth organisation FEMYSO has been mercilessly defamed over years. We never knew who the perpetrator was, until a New Yorker investigation revealed the absurdly unlikely story behind the campaign.

Our muslim youth organisation FEMYSO has been mercilessly defamed over years. We never knew who the perpetrator was, until a New Yorker investigation revealed the absurdly unlikely story behind the campaign.

A recent World Bank report shows that, with appropriate social policies, the green transition could minimise the transitions' effects on wage differentials between university graduates and the rest and reduce regional inequalities across Europe.

Serbia is trying to block Kosovo's membership in the Council of Europe, putting in doubt an EU-brokered deal amid heightened tension in the region.

Prominent Iranian rights defenders are demanding the EU list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation.

The narrative now is all about how clueless African, Asian and Latin American leaders can still be brought back to the right path — and out of China's embrace — with the right amount of tough pressure and sweet persuasion.

Curiously, it is not easy to ascertain exactly why Sweden could not enter the alliance on the same day as Finland, given the submission of parallel bids, writes former Swedish ambassador to Ankara, Michael Sahlin, and Kjell Engelbrekt.

EU diplomats and civilians are fleeing Sudan amid concern Russian mercenaries will exploit the Western vacuum.