If the EU wanted some red meat in its next sanctions, there were plenty of billionaires left to bite who, like Abramovich, “generate significant revenues for the Russian government”.
The complaint takes aim at the EU’s decision to “review and revise” the water directive and address “potential bottlenecks” in accessing critical raw materials.
Saint-Gilles is a vibrant neighbourhood in Brussels. But a spate of recent drug-gang related bombings and shootings has galvanised local community leaders, who feel largely abandoned by the state and political infighting.
Litigious Russians filed some 84 out of the 125 new sanctions cases before the EU’s General Court in 2025, amid member states’ plans to massively expand the Russia blacklist.
More than 10 years after the failed coup attempt and more than 13 years since the Gezi Park protests, the distance that Turkey has travelled along the authoritarian path is starkly clear. This direction is reversible. But the Turkish authorities have made clear that they do not intend to shift their path, warn Amnesty International.
Behind closed doors, Tisza ditched high‑profile names before settling on Baka, the quiet jurist whose earlier ousting became a European human-rights scandal.
The latest mass crossing into Ceuta shows that the EU’s deal with Morocco doesn’t just outsource border control — it hands Rabat a pressure point that can shake Schengen, fuel extremists, and unsettle millions of Europeans.
Creating an institution that cannot, by design, reach the one man it was created for is not accountability. It is expensive symbolism — and it costs Europe exactly the credibility it is trying to project, argues former ICC judge Christine Van den Wyngaert.
Shell records disclosed in a UK court case show the company kept a major Nigerian pipeline running despite warnings that oil theft was causing spills across the Niger Delta.
Leaked legal opinions and internal files reveal how EU Commission negotiators bypassed member states, ignored red flags on human rights, and kept talking to Israeli officials long after being told a 2022 draft deal for the exchange of personal data between Europol and Israel broke EU and international law.
While an internal panel cleared Karim Khan of misconduct, US and Israeli pressure has pushed ICC governments toward a politically charged removal vote that quietly rewrites the court’s own rules.
Google has been fined close to €1bn by the EU due to its search engine monopoly, which prioritised Google Flights or Google Store over other results, and for charging business too much on Google Play.
All Europeans should read a speech Koen Lenaerts, president of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, delivered to law students in Leiden in mid-June, writes Caroline de Gruyter. It is a speech about European values and the fundamental place they occupy in Europe’s legal system.
The announcement on Friday follows the publication of reports that attempt to decrypt rule-of-law issues in each of the 27 member states. It will include a boost to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office.
A tribunal created for one conflict — while acts of aggression in the Middle East and Latin America go unanswered — serves the court’s critics their strongest argument on a silver platter: that international criminal justice is a selective instrument of Western power, not a universal principle.
Presented as a transparency exercise, a draft European Parliament report would curb the Court of Justice’s power to defend judicial independence across the Union and with it the legal infrastructure on which the EU’s citizens, companies and rights depend, warns Alberto Alemanno.
As Albania’s EU membership momentum hits full steam, Brussels’ institutions and Albanian civil society speak out about what accession with current environmental scandals could mean for the EU’s credibility
In this edition, we track how officials are burying EU funding audits on Gaza, shielding judges’ financial interests and limiting access to ownership data, while watchdogs and civil society push back against weakened transparency laws and chronic delays that undermine scrutiny and journalists’ work.
With the European Parliament’s resistance weakening and the powerful European People’s Party group shifting in favour of tougher controls, this surprise win for message-scanning could clear the way for an even more far‑reaching “Chat Control 2.0” that targets encrypted apps next.
As Brussels welcomes Magyar’s moves on Ukraine aid and frozen EU funds, the real battle is shifting to whether he can lock in rule-of-law reforms before entrenched Orbán loyalists regroup. Is the new prime minister delivering on his promises?
