The proposed ethics body to counter EU institutional corruption will only have advisory authority, confidential notes from Commission Vice President Jourová revealed.

Democrats and Republicans are bickering over the debt ceiling. They will reach an agreement before the June 1st “default” date, but it will only be a stopgap measure. At some point, Congress will face such high costs for its debt that not even the most optimistic investors can trust the U.S. Treasury any longer.

“The Istanbul Convention … undermines the genuine protection of women and prioritizes ideology over facts,” MEP Ladislav Ilčić (ECR) said. Ironically, the treaty meant to combat physical and sexual violence is the one that’s being forced on member states against their will.

MEPs voted 537 to 42 in favour of the extension, which will come into effect June 6th and extend the suspension of EU tariffs on Ukranian goods for another year.

Vienna’s Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Dominik Nepp said that the “cycle of violence is apparently spinning faster and faster,” and has called for a security summit.

The former Fox News host said that “at the most basic level, the news you consume [via mainstream platforms] is a lie.”

More than a hundred members of the ’Ndrangheta are currently being investigated for drug trafficking; arms trafficking; money laundering; various frauds and tax offences.

The two mass shootings—the first to take place in the country since 2013—occurred in a 48-hour timespan and left 17 people dead and 21 injured.

The country has declared severe and extreme drought across 40% of its territory.

With the expiration of Title 42, U.S. immigration authorities will no longer be able to immediately return migrants who illegally entered the country without allowing them to apply for asylum, no matter how baseless their claims are.

Unelected Eurocrats, with questionable democratic legitimacy, have an “unquenchable lust for power,” conservative MEP Ryszard Legutko replied to German Chancellor Scholz’s proposed power grabs sold as inevitable EU reforms.

For the aspirations of the Maastricht Treaty to become a reality, Europe would need to cultivate a climate of mutual trust and consensus among the various member states.