The ICC has received the EU’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. The court’s president judge thanked lawmakers for the recognition and said “there is no peace without justice and no security without law”.
An Italian MEP has gone on hunger strike over the besieged Ukrainian town’s lack of access to food, medicine, clean water and basic care. The only route to escape is tapped with mines and rife with attack drones.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) raided the offices of Patriots for Europe in Strasbourg and Brussels.
The EU is pressing allies, such as the UK, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and Norway to help close a €70bn shortfall in Ukraine’s funding for next year.
Members of European Parliament from across the political spectrum are holding the door open for Britain to rejoin the union.
The ICC was shortlisted for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought alongside a Tanzanian opposition leader and jailed Iranian protesters.
THIS WEEK: Budget fallout, Russian provocations, and could the ICC be awarded the EU’s Sakharov prize?MEPs in Strasbourg will respond to Donald Trump’s sanctions against the International Criminal Court, debate Russian drones in the Black Sea and decide positions on short- and long-term budgets.
Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen lashed out again at Spanish leader Pedro Sánchez on migration during a summit debate in Brussels on Friday.
The UK-EU “status quo is not good enough for Britain”, claimed the British prime minister after accusing Russia of meddling in the Brexit referendum.
In a poll of 25,080 adults across 25 EU member states, 75 percent of Europeans indicated support for a hen-cage ban by 2035.
Campaigners have warned that stringent requirements to adapt games to children by default would prompt the extinction of small games and make costs spiral for developers.
A proposed safeguard to last up to 15 years after EU accession would make it easier to suspend future member states’ voting rights if they misbehaved.
THIS WEEK: EU trade chief heads to China as Brussels unveils long-delayed pre-enlargement reformsThe European Commission is expected to present its long-delayed pre-enlargement policy reviews to prepare for the integration of Montenegro, Albania, Ukraine and Moldova.
Researchers found that even when users rejected non-essential cookies, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Gemini, Copilot, ChatGPT and Claude still connected to Google Ads.
Peaceful protesters and ethnic minorities in Europe could be victimised by police abuse of AI-powered surveillance tech, an EU rights body has warned.
Animal rights activists call for the commission to finally table cage ban proposals after years of delays, while Irish Ferries has 15 days to respond to a new complaint about transporting calves without giving them food.
EU data protection chief Wojciech Wiewiórowski has joined trade unions and privacy activists in their concerns over the ‘digital omnibus’, which includes amendments to EU privacy rules that would allow data harvesting from workers without their permission to feed AI models.
The consumer-rights group which filed complaints against the tech giant lashed out at the “disproportionate” time taken for the Irish privacy watchdog to protect sensitive location data.
