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Euroviews. Banking lobby's influence risks undermining digital euro's potential

Lawmakers as representatives of the people should resist the anticompetitive proposals of the banking sector and embrace a vision of the digital euro that serves the collective interests of Europeans, Dr Martijn van der Linden and Vicky Van Eyck write.

Health news

Commission approves superbug-busting antibiotic

The European Commission today (22 April) authorised a new antibiotic designed to counter anti-bacterial resistance, one of the biggest health threats the EU is currently facing.

Economy

Euroviews. Why EU trade policy and climate are running into the sand

As it finesses its strategy on trade, the EU needs to think how to moderate its sustainability agenda, which is proving too much for its trading partners to swallow, John Clarke writes.

Tech News

Chatbots providing 'unintentional' misinformation ahead of EU election

Google has introduced more restrictions after a new study showed Europe's most used AI chatbots were providing inaccurate election-related answers.

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Italy

Italy's Mario Draghi calls for radical change in Europe

A petition calling for Italy's Prime Minister to take on the Commission's top job has garnered over 1,000 signatures.

Europe Decoded

If not Ursula, then who? Seven in the wings for Commission top job

The Commission chief post will be put up for grabs after the EU elections. Who might be the other options to Ursula von der Leyen?

Europe News

Poland gets first payment of EU recovery funds: €6.3 billion

Poland has received €6.3 billion under the European Union's recovery fund, the first payment of its kind.

Europe Decoded

Von der Leyen: Too right for the left and too left for the right?

Ursula von der Leyen has presided over the most transformative years of the European Union in recent memory. But after weathering a string of extraordinary crises, her ideology might have gotten lost along the way.

My Europe Series

State of the Union: Decisions on climate, transparency and migration

In this edition of State of the Union, we focus on the climate ruling against Switzerland, fairness in the European election campaign and the new EU Migration and Asylum Pact

World

Ylva Johansson: Europe's new migration pact is 'a huge achievement'

Ylva Johansson, the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, discusses the EU's new polarising pact on migration and asylum in the Global Conversation.

Europe News

EU states must apply migration pact or face legal action: Commissioner

EU countries failing to implement the New Pact on Migration and Asylum, narrowly endorsed by the European Parliament on Wednesday, could face legal action, the bloc's home affairs chief has warned.

Spain

Spain to end golden visas for foreign real estate investors

Lawmakers hope closing the scheme will shut off an opening that critics say has allowed dirty money into the economy.

Europe News

Von der Leyen's pick for campaign manager raises eyebrows

Ursula von der Leyen has selected her current chief of staff to run her campaign ahead of the elections to the European Parliament.

Europe News

Exclusive: Von der Leyen cronyism row intensifies with NGO call

NGOs join lawmakers and senior commission officials in questioning the decision to hand a lucrative official role to a political ally.

Europe News

Von der Leyen's SME Envoy appointment disputed

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is embroiled in a row over favouritism, after appointing German MEP Markus Pieper as Envoy for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, a five-year post with a salary of nearly 17,000 euros a month.

Space

Europe may soon launch a new space law. What should we expect?

The European Commission told Euronews Next that they expect to propose a European space law sometime in April.

Europe News

Is the credibility of European institutions at stake?

To improve the reputation of European institutions, an inter-institutional ethics body has been set up and Parliament's Rules of Procedure have been amended. However, experts claim this is not enough.

Europe News

Exclusive: Commission vanguard turn on von der Leyen envoy pick

The controversial decision to hire Germany’s Markus Pieper may need a second look, fellow Commissioners suggest.

Europe News

Exclusive: Lawmakers to call for head of von der Leyen SME envoy

A draft seen by Euronews accuses Ursula von der Leyen of political favouritism in selecting Markus Pieper, from her own party, for the lucrative official post.

Europe News

EU probes Chinese solar panels over potentially 'distortive' subsidies

The European Commission has launched two investigations into Chinese manufacturers of solar panels suspected of benefitting from "distortive" state subsidies and gaining an "unfair advantage."