Tuesday
6th Nov 2018
Businesses in northern Italy are anxiously watching the standoff between the European Commission and the Italian government. They used to be the 'Northern League's' most important electorate - but the party's profile and priorities have changed.
Nicolas Hulot, an environment activist, quit by surprise on Tuesday, saying the French government was not up to the challenges.
The French Guiana spaceport has been the site of European launches for decades. One of the unchallenged advantages is its proximity to the equator.
Experts warn there is a lot of "hype and misunderstanding" surrounding artificial intelligence - but the interest in AI is justified. The future of AI "will be the defining development of the 21st century".
UN human rights commissioner urged EU leaders to condemn violence that recalled the 1930s, but the local situation in former East Germany does not apply to the whole country.
Growing problem of space debris risks putting space off-limits for future generations, says Holger Krag, head of ESA's Space Debris Office.
The commission had originally planned to publish its paper on how to communicate better with its own citizens by June 2018 - now it won't come out until the second quarter of 2019.
When it comes to projects paid for by EU regional funds, most people think of roads in Romania or bridges in Bulgaria. But richer regions also receive money. EUobserver takes you on a tour of selected projects in Amsterdam.
Decisions in the EU are a complicated process of intense negotiations, quid pro quos and horse-trading, until an agreement can finally be reached. But that didn't happen in Salzburg.
Horst Seehofer's CSU party took a tough line on migration at its congress and distanced itself from Merkel on foreign policy.
"I think it is an enormous achievement by Europe and by ESA that we built this," said meteorologist Ad Stoffelen at the launch in French Guiana of a European climate research and weather forecasting satellite.
The launch of a satellite with a wind-mapping laser, showcasing European innovation, has been 16 years in the making.
A long-standing cooperation between the EU and China on carbon capture and storage has fallen off the political agenda – with the European Commission not having any comment available when asked for an update.
"Greece's recovery is not an event, it is a process," EU commissioner Pierre Moscovici says. Statistics, and differences of views between the country's creditors, show that the process will not be easy.
Wegate.eu, which received €1.2m in EU money since its launch almost two years ago, has less than a thousand registered users - from a possible target audience of at least 10 million.
Commission says it is not convinced by Warsaw's defence of a new law on Poland's Supreme Court, which forces the early retirement of some 27 judges.
National governments secured a one-year extension for publishing plans to make radio frequencies available for mobile communications - but some were nevertheless unable to meet the deadline.
Heatwaves in Europe have become twice as likely due to global warming.
While Twitter and EU bubble publications are flooded with photos of protesting crowds and "chains of light" in front of the presidential palace, the Law and Justice-controlled senate has adopted a law restructuring the electoral code for 2019's European elections.
Back in Belgium after Spain lifted a European Arrest Warrant against him, the separatist former leader wants to be the real power behind the region's government and a new push for independence.
Poland's political masters have extended their control over the supreme court, while continuing to denigrate EU concerns.
EU commission warnings on rule of law, such as those on Poland, can be a factor in halting extraditions, the EU's top court has said.
The French president is seeing his authority weakened by revelations over one of his bodyguards - and this could affect his capacity to reform.
Malta's prime minister Joseph Muscat says a year long probe has dispelled allegations he, his wife and political associates were involved in money laundering or fraud.
Friends of prime minister Viktor Orban have "grasped power and occupied all state institutions," says the country's first EU commissioner - but he hopes new 'conditionality' clauses in the next EU budget could help reduce misuse of public money.
Right-wing websites and radio stations pumping out stories about migrants and refugees have mushroomed in recent years in Slovakia - despite a fightback from the mainstream media.
For Andrej Babis, a businessman turned politician, EU membership is a matter of conviction as much as of economic opportunities, in a country still looking for a purpose.
Creditors are expected to agree Thursday on a final loan and debt relief measures for Greece. After eight years on an international lifeline, the country will remain under close surveillance - but will have to find a new economic model.
Some EU careworkers in Belgium receive around €400 a month - despite their carers paying €2,500 a month and paying for flights and accommodation. The answer lies in how firms can skirt the safeguards in the EU's posted workers directive.
Swedish nationalists have gambled on an in/out referendum to win votes in Europe's next big election, amid signs of new boldness in the far right.
Last weekend some 175,000 people in the Basque country demanded a 'right to decide'. For some, it means more autonomy from Spain, others independence. "We want to open a second front within the Spanish state," says one Basque politician.
The new regional government is to reopen its representations aboard. In Brussels, its new foreign minister Ernest Maragall insisted that it wanted to show "responsibility".
The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment says that levels of carbon monoxide can be twenty times as high when using a different measurement system.
