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Secretary-General Alain Berset warned that courts must not be “weaponized” for political gain.

Conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed to drastically reduce migration from “day one,” but his approach thus far has been largely symbolic.

Document spearheaded by Italy and Denmark also calls for an end to the exploitation of migrants by hostile states.

Brussels needs to act in the face of “an alarming increase of hate speech and hate crime,” Paris proposes.

Economic malaise is helping nationalist presidential candidate George Simion.

Shift adds to pressure on Brussels to soften the 90 percent goal.

Poland and Austria have criticized the new government’s plan, which would also see Berlin rejecting people who want to claim asylum.

With nudges and winks, governments are trying to influence who becomes the next pope. Whether they’ll succeed is up to 133 holy men.

With the United States throwing up the highest trade barriers in a century, Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission is on a mission to do trade deals with everyone else. 

From Austria to Spain, not a single wine tested came back clean, exposing the reach of ultra-persistent chemicals in Europe’s food chain.

Even the EU’s most protectionist countries are realizing that they need new friends to trade with as their oldest ally goes rogue.

Gerald Knaus analysiert im Gespräch mit Gordon Repinski den neuen Koalitionsvertrag und benennt konkret, was eine echte Migrationswende ermöglichen könnte – und was bloß Symbolpolitik bleibt.  Es …

Stretched resources and patchy communication leave experts warning a ban on personal meat and cheese imports could fall well short of its aims.

Central and Eastern European countries are missing April showers, creating possible trouble for supply chains and farmers.

The new restrictions are intended to protect British farms as a foot-and-mouth outbreak spreads across the EU.

Dolors Montserrat as the new secretary-general is a surprising choice, say critical party insiders.

The White House is pushing Europe to spend billions more on energy imports. That’s going to be difficult if it blows up the world economy.

“This is a wake-up call on trade agreements,” French Trade Minister Laurent Saint-Martin tells POLITICO.

In a wide-ranging interview, Mette Frederiksen says she considers “mass migration … as a threat to the daily life in Europe.”

The EU’s new plan gets tough on deportations to outflank the continent’s surging populists. Instead, it might just be fueling their narrative.

Law championed by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen would lower the protection status of Europe’s wolves.

Northern European countries traditionally unenthusiastic about higher spending are wary of Germany’s new-found desire to splash the cash.

Countries like Germany have pushed for a more flexible approach, complaining the targets could raise gas prices.