2+ hour, 20+ min ago   (1159+ words) Fall ill on holiday in another EU country, and the bill is yours to pay first. Patients then wait an average of 69 days to get their money back from home. Lawmakers now want member states to settle up between themselves…...

2+ hour, 3+ min ago   (749+ words) Moldova’s union with Romania is back on the table, but it would put Russian soldiers right in both EU and NATO territory. Not everybody is ready, not least the Moldovans themselves. That does not make union imminent. It does show…...

2+ hour, 3+ min ago   (647+ words) For men from Ukraine’s Hungarian-speaking borderlands, safety in Europe now depends on which capital they turn to. Kyiv wants them fighting. Brussels just agreed. Budapest does not. Most Ukrainian men over 23 cannot leave the country at all under martial law....

2+ hour, 3+ min ago   (337+ words) An asylum seeker settled in Germany could soon be sent back to Italy, the country where they first set foot in Europe. Eight EU states have quietly revived that rule. Rome is struggling to cope, and it is far from…...

21+ hour, 11+ min ago   (471+ words) One year after the European Commission fined Google €2.95 billion for abusing its dominance in adtech, the company has generated an estimated €105 billion in EU revenue. Campaigners say the figures show why a fine alone is not enough and are urging…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1055+ words) Serbia wants to move forward with its EU accession, even as journalists are being threatened, surveilled and forced into exile. This exposes the growing gap between Belgrade’s European ambitions and its record on media freedom. Serbia is the only country…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (438+ words) The European Commission wants to stop WhatsApp causing ’serious and irreparable harm to the market’ for AI assistants. The body says the policy breaks EU rules and it intends to impose interim measures to stop it, which effectively means that…...

9+ mon, 4+ week ago   (714+ words) Curtsy to the king! / Source: Pixabay.com In the face of an impossible dilemma, the EU appears to have chosen sides. In the name of competitiveness—and under geopolitical threats delivered with the current US administration’s customary subtlety—the bloc…...