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ANALYSIS Macron on Western boots in Ukraine: What he really meant

Macron's tabu-shattering words on Western troops in Ukraine likely meant more special forces on the ground, but also a new alarm-call on the Russia threat. Read on »

Amazon lobbyists banned from EU Parliament

Amazon lobbyists will officially be banned from the European Parliament until further notice after an internal body decided to withdraw their badges Read on »

COLUMN Memo from Munich — EU needs to reinvent democracy support

If we pretend that states are democratic because they are in the EU's geopolitical tent, we betray democracy. Conversely, functioning democracies can make geopolitical choices that the EU does not like. Read on »

MEPs slap three-month ban on foreign ads ahead of EU polls

Organisations from outside the EU will be banned from sponsoring political adverts in the three months ahead of June's European elections under a new law approved by EU lawmakers on Tuesday (27 February). Read on »

EU nature restoration law approved after massive backlash

Hailed with loud applause by the 329 MEPs that approved the text, the final compromise approved on Tuesday is actually much weaker than the original EU Commission proposal first tabled in 2022. Read on »

OPINION For Ukraine's sake, pass the EU due diligence directive

The EU Commission's 2022 CSDDD proposal did not include provisions incorporating "conflict due diligence", they were added, after the Russian invasion, by the European Parliament and Council into the final directive text — for Ukraine's sake, vote for it. Read on »

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