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AGENDA Middle East, Egypt, Nato exercise in focus This WEEK

EU foreign ministers will discuss Gaza and Israeli sanctions on Monday, as well as frozen assets and Russian sanctions. Nato will launch military exercises. Meanwhile, migration talks with Egypt and the future of agriculture are also planned for this week. Read on »

FEATURE Suspend arms trade to Israel, campaigners told Spain

Spain faces criticism for buying and supplying weapons to Israel while publicly condemning its military operation in Gaza, with thousands of demonstrators expected to take to the streets this weekend under the call "stop the arms trade with Israel". Read on »

EU to blacklist people for pro-Hamas 'incitement'

"Inciting or publicly provoking acts of serious violence" against Israel "in support of Hamas" to be made illegal in EU, alongside a new blacklist of Hamas money-men in Lebanon and beyond. Read on »

Hungary digs in against EU over migrants and LGBTi rights

Hungary is ratcheting up its rhetoric against migrants and LGBTi rights amid an on-going standoff with the EU over frozen funds following an acrimonious debate in the European Parliament on stripping Budapest of its EU voting rights. Read on »

African scrambles to comply with new EU due diligence rules

The EU's new due diligence laws, designed to address deforestation and human rights abuses in supply chains, risk having an uneven effect on African economies and farming, as governments and industry scramble to prepare compliance regimes. Read on »

OPINION A climate-denier Milei and a hypocritical EU-Mercosur pact

In the rush to finalise the controversial EU-Mercosur trade deal before the European elections in June of this year, its promoters appear willing to shake hands with Argentina's new far-right president, Javier Milei — a known climate change denier. Read on »

OPINION Seven ways Gaza conflict gets misreported in Europe

Journalists covering Gaza from afar face limited access, contested facts, lobby pressure and a power imbalance. But when they let these distort their coverage, it ceases to reflect reality and start to shape it, in unintended ways. Read on »

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