According to the EU Treaties, the Commission is accountable to the Parliament as a body and must resign if the Parliament adopts a motion of censure.

The new intake of recently elected and returning Members gather in Strasbourg from 16 to 19 September, as Parliament holds the first plenary session after the summer. Debate is due to commence on ...

In the context of the war in Ukraine, the increasingly global effects – material and political – of war make measuring a view of the level of threats to peace, security and democracy around the world ...

Hate speech and hate crime have proliferated over the past two decades. Written by Beatrix Immenkamp with Ionel Zamfir and David de Groot.

Even though the European defence technological and industrial base (EDTIB) is generally competitive, years of underinvestment have kept it from reaching its full potential.

Hungary assumed the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union on 1 July, and will stay in office until 31 December 2024.

Strengthening the European Union's economy in the face of rising global economic and political competition and managing the 'twin transitions' of the digital and green transformation is a key ...

On 30 June 2021, the European Union adopted the European Climate Law (Regulation (EU) 2021/1119). Mandated by the 2019 European Green Deal, the Regulation sets an EU-wide, legally binding target of ...

On 26 July 2024, after 5 years of negotiations, 82 members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) reached an agreement on the first-ever global rules on electronic commerce.

The United Nations describes money laundering as the conversion or transfer of property, knowing it is derived from a criminal offence, for the purpose of concealing or disguising its illicit origin ...

Two and a half years after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, EU military aid under the European Peace Facility (EPF) is still falling behind, with fresh money needed despite the ...

On 24 January 2024, the European Commission published a package of five initiatives to enhance the EU's economic security, in line with the EU's economic security strategy (built around the three ...