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The autonomous robot detects and repairs vertical metal surfaces, including those found in sites like offshore platforms or ship hulls. Designed to repair all metal surfaces, the robot can work in extreme temperatures

Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced she will take her first foreign trip to Ethiopia.

It will be the first big act of the new European Commission.

It's official - it's a climate emergency. At least according to the EU.

Euronews took to the streets of Brussels to ask people to rate the incoming Commission's priorities for the first one hundred days in office.

We asked the people of Brussels what they think should be the policy priority of the new commission for the first 100 days: unemployment, migration, climate change, or gender equality - find out which issue came out top.

Ursula von der Leyen's new picks for EU commissioners are going before MEPs.

In Strasbourg, MEPs voiced their opinions on what they believed to be the most important priority of the incoming Commission.

For the first time in Commission history, there will be a European Equality Commissioner, Helena Dalli, whose goal is develop EU-wide legislation that protects the victims and punishes the offenders of gender-based violence.

In our State of the Union this week, we report that Hungary and the UK are the two outstanding countries with no confirmed EU commissioner. Meanwhile in Spain, political negotiations continue aimed at forming a government. Talks follow last Sundays inconclusive election result.

It hasn't been second time lucky for Budapest, so far.

Parliament voted overwhelmingly to condemn a bill proposed by the Polish government that would criminalize sex education in schools.

After receiving criticism for the Protecting our European way of life portfolio, the president-elect has changed the title less than one month before she is due to take office.

The European Parliament wants consumers to be more aware of the nutritional quality of food and are introducing the nutriscore. This color tool is meant to help consumers when grocery shopping. Green MEPs and civil society groups want to make this label mandatory throughout the EU.

Forest fires struck in more European countries than ever before. Last year, wildfires destroyed nearly 178,000 hectares of land across the continent. That’s according to a new report by the EU Commission, which says it’s having to spend more to protect our countryside.

With Brexit another day, another delay and a new legal headache for a new Commission in the making.

Brussels expects a British nominee for the Commission under a Brexit extension. Boris Johnson has previously vowed to do so ‘under no circumstances’.

New nominees, gender parity at risk - we look at how the new Commission is shaping up.