Nikolaj Nielsen

The Libyan Coast Guard offered no warnings prior to shooting, according to the NGO, but threatened to take the boat and the crew back to Libya.

Millions of Afghan women and girls live under a draconian gender apartheid imposed by the very people - the Taliban regime - the EU commission is now courting.

“The commission is also not taking the debate seriously, they're just sitting there for three hours, and at the end they read out a script that was prepared beforehand,” he said.

“We are barely making it,” said Roxana Mînzatu, the EU commissioner for social rights and skills.

EU states agreed to launch the legislation at the earliest in July next year, after first proposing a two-year delay. The parliament, however, wanted an immediate launch, but agreed on 1 January 2027 as a compromise.

Commission officials are also required to restrict contacts with the tobacco industry strictly to what is necessary for regulatory purposes, under a May 2025 decision reinforcing the application of the UN’s global tobacco control treaty (UNFCTC).

Magyar is hoping to unblock over €10.4bn in frozen EU post-pandemic Covid funds following a planned meeting on Friday with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.

Hungary's new government will have to work double time in order to obtain billions of previously frozen EU funds, following a political agreement with the European Commission on Friday (29 May).

An agreement on the EU's deportation bill was reached late on Monday (1 June) after a proposal to break the deadlock included suggestions that deportation hubs be launched immediately once the legislation enters into force.

The grim forecast, announced on Wednesday (3 June) by the executive director of the Stockholm-based European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), points to a resurgence of HIV, TB, viral hepatitis, and other sexual transmitted infections.