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Catalan leader Oriol Junqueras, who has been in provisional detention for over two years, had the right to immunity the moment he was elected as MEP, European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on Thursday (19 December).

US homesharing site Airbnb on Thursday won its battle to remain exempt from onerous European property regulations, as the EU’s top court ruled it was an online platform and not a property agent.

The stock market is flashing ever-stronger orange about the health of Europe’s banks. Yet the regulatory community tells us good news about its capital strength – despite unsustainably low profitability. Fingers crossed for a muddle through!

The European Commission's standard contractual clauses (SCC), used for data transfers between EU and non-EU countries, are "valid", according to an non-binding opinion from an advocate general at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).

Dutch farmers and construction workers blocked roads with tractors on Wednesday (18 December) and gathered outside the offices of national broadcaster NOS in the latest of a series of protests over environmental pollution rules.

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Croatia’s National Television (HRT) hosted the first and last presidential debate with all 11 candidates competing to get to the second round of the presidential elections this Sunday. Even though the incumbent president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (HDZ, EPP) has  been under...

Romania’s government plans to take responsibility for the 2020 budget, using a procedure that avoids parliament debates in the process of adopting the law. This would be the first for Romania, but the centre-right government said this is the only...

An agreement between the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and caretaker socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is "within reach", paving the way for broader government  coalition talks. EURACTIV’s partner EuroEFE reports.

Bulgarian MEP Angel Dzhambazki has offered a highly qualified apology for his remarks about the chairman of the Transport Commission, Karima Delli, whom he described as “French-Algerian” and Ismail Ertug, described as “Turkish-German”. “I am a Bulgarian and my roots...

33 MEPs, including Ska Keller from the Greens, have sent a letter to the Greek government expressing their concern about increasing incidents of extreme police violence against citizens. “We express our deep concern about the outbreaks of extreme police violence...

An Italian tribunal has asked the parliament to authorise an investigation into former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini over allegations of kidnapping. According to the magistrates, he refused to let the migrants on Italian coast guard ship Gregoretti disembark in July....

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will on Thursday (19 December) demand the right to hold a new independence referendum, challenging Prime Minister Boris Johnson to keep the United Kingdom together as he grapples with its coming split from the European Union.

Less than a week after suffering their worst defeat in a generation, Labour party staff were warned on Wednesday that hefty job cuts are set to be made at party headquarters. The party, which is at the start of an...

Ireland’s Emily O’Reilly has been approved as the European Ombudsman by MEPs in Strasbourg, after fending off competition from Estonian Judge Julia Laffranque. O’Reilly secured 320 votes and will serve her second term in the post, in which she is...

A group of member states opposed to retaining external convergence in the next Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), have criticised the Finnish Council presidency for not even considering scrapping the concept.

The Belgian army is in trouble after 44 of their armoured reconnaissance vehicles, which were undergoing an upgrade of more than €31 million, became unsafe to use, according to the Ministry of Defence’s internal documents. The issue was raised by...

MEPs backed a resolution on Wednesday (18 December) expressing concern “about the integrity and credibility of the investigations into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia” and that as long as Malta’s PM Joseph Muscat is in office, a risk to...

After months of circling around the issue, the Finnish government finally made a political decision on how to deal with some 40 Finnish citizens in the Al-Hol refugee camp. Some 11,000 foreign women and children are being held at the...