An emergency meeting of EU leaders on Thursday to figure out how to boost Europe’s security, amid United States President Donald Trump’s looming military disengagement from the continent, should be a chance to project a show of unity. But instead, it looks like a power grab is on the cards.

Almost half of the applications filed across the EU in 2024 came from citizenships with low chances of a successful decision. View on euronews

Designed to avoid continent-wide subsidy races and wasteful grants to uncompetitive companies, the EU’s unique state aid regime empowers the European Commission to monitor state support, with tens of billions of euros recouped from companies in total.

The European Commission unveiled on Wednesday its Affordable Energy Action Plan, which aims to cut industrial and household bills by tens of billions of euros and speed up the decarbonisation of power markets.

Pharma and cosmetics industries want other sectors to contribute ‘fair share’ towards cost of removing pollutants

Trump is putting the Europeans into a position where they have to choose between the U.S. and Ukraine, several officials said, and most, if not all, will pick Ukraine.

Europol has conducted a sting operation against a group whose members engage in the distribution of images of minors fully generated by artificial intelligence.