European affairs ministers and their counterparts from EU candidate countries started talks on Tuesday (30 April) on how to strengthen the rule of law both within the bloc and in countries seeking to join it.
In October 2023, mobility company Bolt, headquartered in Estonia, offered to draft a letter on behalf of the Estonian government to push back against the platform work directive — liaising directly with a government official who is a former Bolt employee.
SME Envoy post will be filled after the elections, the Commission President announced, as German politician Markus Pieper renounced the post on the eve of his first day, and pressure mounted against the Commission President for the appointment deemed "unfair".
A new government agency to "protect Hungary's sovereignty" which starts work Thursday (1 February) will have a "chilling effect" on the country's democracy, critics warn.
Experts from the United States have arrived in Cyprus to help police investigate cases where Russian oligarchs were allegedly enabled to bypass sanctions, a Cypriot official said Monday (4 November).
The stand-off between Brussels and Budapest will continue after two EU Commissioners told MEPs that the EU executive is still not ready to unlock billions of euros in recovery funds for Hungary.
French national police have been illegally using the Israeli facial recognition software Briefcam since 2015, the French investigative media Disclose reported.
The European Commission is not negotiating the release of EU funds for Hungary but is assessing the rule of law compliance, European Commissioner Johannes Hahn told EU lawmakers on Tuesday (7 November), responding to concerns that Budapest could use its …
The French government dissolved the fundamentalist Catholic association Civitas on Wednesday (October 4), stating that the group seeks to "wage war against the Republic" by spreading anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, homophobic and conspiracy theories.
The European Commission's monitoring of Bulgaria and Romania under the so-called “Cooperation and Verification Mechanism” (CVM) officially ended after 16-and-a-half years on Friday (15 September), with much of the work in the meantime taken over by the annual Rule of Law cycle covering all member states.
French opposition leaders have called for the resignation of the Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin and police chief Frédéric Veaux in a row over the police's heavy-handed response to the riots that have swept across French cities in recent weeks.
Greek government ministers have been under spyware surveillance, including when communicating with their European peers, according to the latest findings. But EU institutions insist on considering the matter a national affair.
Hungary needs to fulfil all conditions required to unblock EU funds as soon as possible to ensure they reach citizens and businesses, EU lawmakers from the budgetary control committee said, as rule of law problems persist.
The impasse between the EU and Hungary over access to the bloc’s post-pandemic recovery funds remains, despite moves by Hungarian lawmakers this week to adopt new laws to address EU rule of law concerns.
Political group leaders representing over 70% of the European Parliament have urged the European Commission to deny Hungary’s request to any more EU recovery funds in the latest front in the battle between EU lawmakers and Viktor Orbán’s government.
Spain’s two main parties, the ruling centre-left PSOE (S&D) and the centre-right Popular Party (PP/EPP) are both using the housing crisis as a way to gain votes ahead of elections set for later this year. The first to start the conversation …
The European Parliament decided against introducing mandatory registration of meetings between interest groups and MEPs on Wednesday (19 April) in a move criticised by pro-transparency campaigners.
The resolution was withdrawn from the plenary agenda on 13 April during a closed-door meeting of the Conference of Presidents (CoP), a body comprised of the political groups’ chiefs which decides on Parliament’s business and legislative planning.
Hungary has made progress on bolstering guarantees of judicial independence but is "not quite there yet", and needs to improve democratic credentials in other areas before getting billions worth of blocked European Union funds, officials said on Thursday (30 March).
The rule of law in Greece is “in the danger zone", warned lawmakers in the European Parliament as they expressed concerns about backsliding on democracy and the EU’s political values across the bloc.
