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Grenzschutz und möglichst schnelle Rückführungen von illegal eingereisten Personen müssten "ganz oben auf der Agenda" der EU stehen, bekräftigte Innenminister Nehammer.

EU leaders Thursday condemned "the ongoing atrocities, ethnic-based and sexual violence and other human rights violations in Ethiopia's Tigray region" and called "for an immediate cessation of hostilities" in the civl war. They spoke after air strikes which killed dozens in the Tigray conflict zone and after Ethiopian officials recently told EU envoy and Finnish foreign minister Pekka Haavisto they were "going to wipe out the Tigrayans for 100 years".

EU lawmakers passed a resolution on Thursday demanding the right to legal and safe abortions. The non-binding resolution passed by 378 to 255 votes, noting that women had too many constraints when it came to sexual and reproductive health and rights. The vote came after British-overseas territory Gibraltar decided to ease its tough anti-abortion laws, even as Poland recently tightened its draconian regime, prompting protests.

An EU mandate for the use of animal fats and used cooking oils in sustainable aviation fuel is set to enrich large biofuel players such as Total and Neste Oil, at the expense of most of the industry, the European Waste-to-Advanced Biofuels Association (EWABA) has warned.

Der EU-Gipfel hat einen deutsch-französischen Vorschlag für die baldige Wiederaufnahme von Spitzentreffen mit Russlands Präsident Wladimir Putin abgelehnt.

Der Schweizer Pharmariese Roche kann sein Mittel Actemra nun per sofort zur Behandlung von Corona-Patientinnen und -Patienten einsetzen. Die Details.

Debate on the external dimensions of migration and asylum, including effective ways to address the root causes, should not be taboo in the EU, the world’s largest donor of development aid, writes Tomas Tobé.

Syrian refugees lives were never easy and now with the Danish government's decision to revoke more than 200 residency permits and shift asylum responsibility to third countries, their prospects of living in peace here are bleaker than ever.

Silvio Berlusconi knows that he needs an heir, and that Forward Italy is on the verge of collapse.

The European Parliament has given the final green light to the first-ever EU climate law - despite Green and left-wing MEPs voting against it. They argue that the bill is not aligned with the 2015 Paris Agreement.

SOS Mediterranee's rescue coordinator Luisa Albera describes the events surrounding the tragic loss of 130 people in late April.

Die EU-Staats- und Regierungschefs haben Pläne für ein weiteres Milliardenpaket zur Versorgung von Syrien-Flüchtlingen in der Türkei unterstützt.

Fellow EU leaders rejected a French and German idea to resume EU summits with Russia on Thursday, amid confusion over their cack-handed diplomacy.

Csehszlovákia megalapítása óta a valaha volt legerősebb tornádó csapott le tegnap Csehországra. A vihar elsősorban a Dél-Morva kerületet, a szlovák határtól nem messze fekvő Hodonín városát érintette. A károk hatalmasak: százak sérültek meg, és halálos áldozatról is érkezett bejelentés.

Hungary's premier Viktor Orbán argued that the law does not discriminate against LGBTIQ people - and that he himself defended the rights of "homosexual guys" when he fought against communism as a student leader.

The European Parliament adopted the EU's long-term budget regional support plan at a plenary on Wednesday (23 June). Some EU lawmakers, however, were disappointed at the lack of support for cross-border projects and the lack of ability to monitor spending.

Portugal's foreign minister, Augusto Santos Silva, said on Thursday (24 June) that the launch of EU accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania would be "a major achievement" of Slovenia's upcoming EU Presidency.

EU leaders on Thursday agreed the bloc's first-ever economic sanctions on Belarus in the 27-year rule of dictator-president Aleksander Lukashenko, with restrictions on bank loans and key exports - oil products, potash, and tobacco. Lukashenko, the same day, held show trials of relatives of opposition leaders-in-exile, in what was dubbed "revenge". Latvia also said Lukashenko was letting greater numbers of Syrian refugees cross the border into neighbouring EU countries.

Bulgarian president Ruman Radev has vowed to keep blocking North Macedonia's EU accession talks until it formally says its language and ethnicity are really Bulgarian. "We will not allow to have our arms twisted via lobbying or media or political pressure ... We cannot say 'Yes' before being convinced that our neighbour won't be building its identity by stealing from Bulgaria's history," he said at an EU summit Thursday.

French president Emmanuel Macron on Thursday joined German chancellor, Angela Merkel, to call to coordinate further on the conditions non-EU tourists should fulfil to enter the bloc, The Guardian reported. British tourists travelling to Germany need to go into quarantine, while they can enter Spain without a negative test. The UK said that it is up to individual countries to decide what travel restrictions those travelling from Britain would face.