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'Historic day': EU leaders react to COVID-19 recovery package deal

Historic, groundbreaking and imperfect. They are just some of the words being used to describe the EU's newly agreed coronavirus recovery package.

Economy

EU leaders reach landmark €1.82 trillion COVID-19 recovery package

EU leaders have adopted the trillion-euro coronavirus rescue package after marathon talks in Brussels.

World News

EU marathon summit turning into a ‘fight over sovereignty’

"You have to intrude into national politics when you have joint money, and that's what's really at stake," says German economist Guntram Wolff.

Economy

EU leaders 'far apart' on trillion-euro COVID-19 recovery package deal

The good news is leaders agree a common response is needed. The bad news is that they disagree on how the money should be handed out.

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Economy

No breakthrough as EU splits remain over €750bn COVID-19 recovery plan

Europe remains divided on the issue. On one side Germany, France, Italy and Spain, who back the plan, and four nations who don’t, the so-called "frugal four": Austria, The Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark.

Europe News

EU leaders meet via video-conference - so do our correspondents

Euronews' correspondents discuss the measures EU leaders could take over the coronavirus crisis

Europe News

EU budget battle stretches into extra time as divisions continue

European leaders meet for a second day of talks to hammer out a compromise over the EU's long-term budget.

Europe News

Watch again: Sassoli speaks amid tense EU budget summit

EU leaders are arguing in Brussels over the bloc's spending plan for the next seven years.

Europe News

How Brexit has left the EU at a crossroads over its future spending

The EU budget battle has pitched the frugal rich against those received more than they put in from Brussels.

Europe News

EU summit climate showdown

Europe's new Green Deal faces its first test as EU leaders meet in Brussels with the aim of agreeing to carbon neutrality by 2050, but not every country is on board ahead of talks.

World News

EU member states agree on climate neutrality by 2050 without Poland

EU leaders will on Thursday "advance altogether on a very important topic, that of our climate ambition", French President Emmanuel Macron said upon arrival in Brussels.

Europe News

EU summit divided over Western Balkans

Divisions over the opening of negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia to join the EU left the summit in a stalemate.

Europe News

EU crunch summit - the stakes

Three years on from the vote which shocked Europe and the world. The Union Flag still flies here at the seat of EU power. Three British Prime Ministers have grappled with Brexit, our political editor guides you through the issues.

Belgium

'Europe is a woman' says Tusk says while defending top job deal

Outgoing President of the European Council Donald Tusk held a press conference after German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen was nominated as Commission president.

My Europe Series

Under pressure: migration, corruption and Brexit weigh on EU countries

This week in State of the Union: another NGO boat in a Mediterranean standoff with Italy saw the EU Commission calling for migrants to be disembarked. A corruption report saw Hungary in the spotlight for refusing its publication, and we looked at how Brexit is affecting expats in Brussels.

My Europe Series

Europe report card on climate and migration

This week we take a look at where Europe stands on climate and migration. After the EU elections returned a big result for anti-migrant parties, we see how far the EU has come on managing migration. The Greens also won big, but we are yet to see the impact on policy at this week's summit.

Europe News

EU leaders address migration at summit following UNHCR refugee report

"Will there be enough political will to push through and read those documents and take this seriously?" One migration policy officer said EU leaders need to understand a recent UNHCR report before reforming the asylum-seeking process.

Europe News

This is how non-English media are covering the EU summit

Journalists from Spain, Poland, Italy and more tell us what their country is focused on.

Europe News

EU leaders don't agree on climate neutrality despite citizen pressure

Back in April, climate activist Greta Thurnberg encouraged MEPs to "panic" about climate change as if "the house is on fire." However, EU leaders were unable to adopt a goal for climate neutrality during Thursday's summit.

World

Raw Politics in full: EU summit agenda and MH17 update

What are the top agenda items for this week's EU summit? Who was charged for the MH17 downing? What happened in the UK Conservative leadership debate? All this and more in this episode of Raw Politics.