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Warsaw-based Frontex is likely violating rights by data dumping migrant testimonies with the EU's police agency Europol, according to a data protection authority.

Next year, the EU will have a new anti-money laundering agency. Madrid has offered its tallest skyscraper rent-free, but other cities are also in the running.

If the EU can map out a strategy to "de-risk" economic and trade relations with Beijing, it can do so on human rights.

If the war in Ukraine was a book, we could be approaching the showdown stage, followed, hopefully, by an epilogue. The showdown, of course, is the Ukrainian offensive, expected anytime.

Despite last-minute pushback against key parts of the text, EU lawmakers adopted a common position on the proposed EU rules to make companies accountable for human rights and environmental violations along their value chains, opening the way for negotiations with member states.

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Skills shortages have become a critical challenge for the entire economy, one that will likely worsen with the digital and green transitions. In the agency work sector, employers and unions are joining forces to equip workers with sustainable skills.

Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton renewed his call for a broad European Sovereignty Fund to finance companies in strategic sectors, and help buy specific firms of “systemic importance” at a French parliamentary hearing on Thursday (1 June).

Farmers and green groups both turned out in force outside the European Parliament on Thursday (1 June) because of the EU’s proposed nature restoration law as tensions continued to mount over the future shape of the EU’s green ambitions. 

A powder made of yellow mealworms could be the next insect-based foodstuff to hit EU supermarket shelves after winning the approval of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) who concluded it raised ‘no safety concerns’.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday (1 June) it had uncovered a US National Security Agency (NSA) plot using previously unknown malware to access specially made so-called backdoor vulnerabilities in Apple phones.

On Thursday, MEPs endorsed Hungary’s nomination of Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz for a second mandate as a member of the European Court of Auditors (ECA).
Committee on Budgetary Control

Source : © European Union, 2023 - EP

On Thursday, MEPs endorsed Hungary’s nomination of Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz for a second mandate as a member of the European Court of Auditors (ECA).
Committee on Budgetary Control

Source : © European Union, 2023 - EP

MEPs doubled down on their criticism of Hungary on Thursday (1 June), backing a motion that threatens to use blocking tactics to disrupt Hungary’s EU presidency next year. 

The European Parliament on Thursday (1 June) endorsed a report on countering foreign interference and information manipulation, calling for a whole-of-society approach to tackling the issue. 

MEPs have adopted a non-binding resolution that "questions" if Hungary is fit to hold the EU's presidency in the second half of 2024, given persistent concerns over the country's democratic backsliding.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy upped the pressure on Western allies on Thursday (1 June) as the debate about what form of potential 'security guarantees' for Kyiv could take gained traction.

The global energy crisis has become a driving force behind the rapid growth of solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind power, according to a report by the International Energy Agency.

EU scientists are exploring how electric cars and smart grids across Europe can better communicate, in a bid to prevent power outages caused by millions of vehicles charging simultaneously.