'In practice, this law can be used on anything, and any situation. It’s purposefully phrased so that everything is covered by it,' Áron Demeter of Amnesty Hungary says of the country's controversial sovereignty act. Lili Rutai reports.
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While Ursula von der Leyen courts Giorgia Meloni, the Italian prime minister is running as a candidate in the European Parliament elections at the top of the Fratelli d'Italia 🇮🇹 list, playing to her base. Gabriele Rosana reports. Alberto Alemanno
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'If we look at other economies, Europe is tying its hands for no reason,' said Patricia Velicu industriAll Europe. Civil society + unions say EU fiscal rules will 'trigger a wave of cuts to public budgets across Europe.' Wouter van de Klippe reports. EU_Eurostat
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'I think there’s a misconception that young people are not interested in politics,' Christelle Savall, president of Young European Federalists says. But will they boost the far right in next week's European Parliament elections? Thibault Spirlet reports.
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'Only through a circular recycling system can the EU economy achieve sustainability, both environmentally and economically,' argues Davide Chiaroni in an op-ed. So what's actually the difference between 'linear' and 'circular' recycling?
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Romania's Social Democrats and Liberals are running together in the European Parliament elections. The country's centrist, mainstream parties claim that they want to protect Romania from the far right. But critics doubt that narrative. Raluca Besliu reports.
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'Nobody can be happy,' Juan F López Aguilar said just after the European Parliament in April narrowly passed the Migration and Asylum Pact. Rarely has a legislative package sparked this level of division, so we unpacked the most controversial provisions.
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‘This is what happens when people who think differently consider themselves enemies,’ Stefan Ernst Marschall of @hhu_de DIID says of the recent uptick in politically motivated attacks ahead of the European Parliament elections.
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a 'geopolitical awakening' for European Commission. And 'doubling down on #enlargement is in the EU’s own interest, as it is an investment in our security and stability,' Amanda Paul 🇺🇦 Svitlana Taran of European Policy Centre write in an op-ed. bit.ly/3wuNm5z

Regardless of how many seats parties like AfD pick up in the wake of its latest scandal, has the far right already won the European Parliament elections? Check out our latest print edition.
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The AfD is again under pressure after lead candidate for European Parliament Dr. Maximilian Krah MdEP suspended campaign after telling Financial Times not all SS members were criminals. Could the upheaval create an opening for Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht? Here's a look at her new left-ish party.
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The EU Council signed off on the bloc's landmark #AIAct this week. But certain exemptions for open AI models will create a back door for malicious actors to spread harmful content, Francesca Giannaccini and Tobias Kleineidam of Democracy Reporting International argue in a recent op-ed.
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'The perception of the right-wing surge is already driving policy solutions in Europe,' says Nathalie Tocci of Istituto Affari Internazionali - IAI. Gabriele Rosana reports on how the EU mainstream is already abandoning 'cordon sanitaire' to work with the far right.
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'We were told that we needed to get used to the situation,' says former European Parliament staffer Jeanne Ponte. Ten years after she began recording incidents of harassment in a notebook, leading to the #MeTooEP movement, has the institution changed?
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Who are you voting for? With just a few weeks until the European Parliament elections, we dug into the manifestos driving the political groups in the EP and unpacked the key policy themes for each group's major parties. EPP Group S&D Group Renew Europe
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'It traumatises you even more because when we finally reached Germany, we thought we were in a free country.' Russian LGBTQ+ asylum seekers have the odds stacked against them when seeking sanctuary in the EU, reports Thibault Spirlet.
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“It’s an arms race,” Michael Meyer-Resende of Democracy Reporting International says of the fight against disinformation and fake news. Is European Parliament ready ahead of next month's elections?
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“There was nothing representing us with dignity,” says Mihaela Dragan of Romania's @Giuvlipen. The feminist Roma theatre org has tackled hyper-sexualisation, structural racism and #MeToo , reports Raluca Besliu.
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400,000 adult EU citizens won’t be allowed to vote in next month’s elections on account of intellectual disabilities or mental health issues, according to Inclusion Europe. That leaves them as 'second class citizens,' says Alejandro Moledo of European Disability Forum. bit.ly/3UEg0t2

Amid mass protests, Georgia's parliament is set to approve a controversial 'foreign agent' law that could thwart its EU ambitions. Fredrik Fahlman reports on the ground in Tbilisi on why Oct's general elections could determine whether it joins the bloc. bit.ly/3PNsOeN