European Union nations backed a significant tightening of migration rules on Monday, including allowing for "return hubs" for failed asylum-seekers to be set up outside the 27-country bloc. Interior ministers meeting in Brussels greenlighted measures first put forward by the European Commission as »»»

BRUSSELS: United States tariffs of 15 per cent on European Union imports still allow trade to flow and the key factor is how those duties compare with other trading partners, a senior European Commission trade official said on Wednesday (Sep 3). "There is a level ... where a tariff becomes prohibit»»»

The governments of Spain and Portugal have asked the European Union to help strengthen power connections with France in the aftermath of the nationwide blackouts that hit the countries at the end of April. Telephone networks crashed, traffic lights stopped working, planes were grounded, and train s»»»

Several Hungarian universities are at risk of losing EU funding due to concerns over governance structures and public procurement practices. Hungary currently finds itself unable to access over EUR 6 billion in cohesion funding and the Recovery Fund from the European Commission, despite some funds »»»

The European Commission will propose several changes to the Common Agricultural Policy, a program that offers farmers subsidies in return for fulfilling environment-related targets. The proposals are expected to include exemptions on the rules known as good agricultural and environmental conditions»»»

BRUSSELS, March 14 — The European Union reached provisional agreement today on new rules to make legitimate trade in firearms more transparent in a bid to combat illegal trafficking and keep arms out of the hands of criminals. The new rules, agreed by lawmakers and the Belgian EU presidency, will r»»»

The European Union is poised to agree on a joint exit from a controversial energy investment protection agreement that activists say is a roadblock to the bloc’s path toward climate neutrality. Launched in the 1990s to safeguard energy investments of former Eastern Bloc countries, the Energy Charte»»»