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A six-month investigation by Investigate Europe and Reporters United reveals a network of legal, academic and state actors working to curtail academic boycotts across the continent.

At the start of the academic year last September, the rector of the University of Granada sent a message to students and faculty members. Professor Pedro Mercado Pacheco stressed that the university must continue to be “a space for dialogue...

Lobbyists for Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta have succeeded in getting the European Commission to keep data on data center water consumption secret, European investigative journalists have found.

France is pushing for Britain to accept asylum seekers from across the EU as part of a new deal to replace the current "one in, one out" agreement.

Labour peer tells Council of Europe inquiry failure to implement legal protections still putting journalists at risk

The EU and capitals face many challenges clamping down on illicit tobacco trade which cause €13 billion annually in lost revenue, ECA said.

In Pressemitteilungen der Europäischen Kommission werden regelmäßig Milliardenbeträge genannt, während konkrete Angaben zur Verwendung der Mittel oft im Hintergrund bleiben.

A 78-year-old British widow who has lived in Sweden for 21 years is fighting deportation from the country after authorities told her a post-Brexit application to stay had been submitted too late.

In 2024, Brussels South Charleroi Airport handled over 10 million passengers.

Arms giant Thales, in which the French state is a shareholder, has sold to the Burmese forces six radars used for monitoring its coast, Disclose and Info Birmanie can reveal.

European prosecutors have indicted five people and a company for allegedly evading more than $20 million in VAT on goods imported from China, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office announced Monday.

The European Union is placing a deferred transaction ban on a Georgian oil refinery for processing Russian crude, giving the facility six months before the measure takes effect under its 21st sanctions package.

Through an opaque network of shell companies in the British Virgin Islands and Luxembourg holding firms, an agency that manages China’s foreign reserves has discreetly scooped up stakes in Europe’s critical infrastructure, utilities, and real estate.

The former diplomat takes over from Nick Thomas-Symonds, a close ally of Keir Starmer, who has left government.

Ann Ryan’s home looks across an inlet in the Shannon estuary and straight into a geopolitical crisis. From her front window in south-west Ireland, she can see the factory accused of helping supply Russia’s war on Ukraine.

The European Union’s new digital border system was meant to bring travel into the 21st century. Unfortunately, it gets confused by identical twins.

The European Parliament backed a non-binding call to ban alumina exports to Russia, increasing pressure on Ireland and the EU after a collaborative OCCRP investigation linked an Irish refinery’s supply chain to Russian arms manufacturers.

There’s a fight brewing in Brussels over who gets access to the trillions of search queries Europeans make on Google each year.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has argued that the company’s Android system has created "more choice, not less".

More than 40 per cent of jurists at the Court of Justice have declared private financial interests, with some working on cases concerning industries where they hold stakes.

Former EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has delivered his sharpest public criticism yet of the European Commission’s growing role in diplomacy and defense, arguing that it is straying beyond its treaty powers and creating confusion over who speaks for Europe on the world stage.

Europe is set to enter the heating season with the lowest gas storage levels in at least 15 years, threatening higher prices for businesses and households this winter.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Prague (Czechia) filed an indictment today with the Regional Court in Prague against two individuals and a company for a €4.1 million subsidy fraud, following an investigation into a project involving an innovative production line for new types of toast bread.

The EU and the UK have agreed that July 22 will be the date for the next summit between their leaders in London and Brussels.

Yesterday, the European Chief Prosecutor addressed a letter to the European Commission in line with Recitals