The RN dismissed the parliamentary report as a Macronist hit job, as polls show the party to be the primary beneficiary of a backlash against the ruling government in Paris.

The Abraham Accords Network was launched with little fanfare by Roberta Metsola and urges the EU to support the landmark normalisation agreement between Israel and its Arab neighbours.

Metsola has been pushing for a reform of Parliament’s anti-harassment guidelines. Meanwhile, media reports allege that she has stalled a harassment probe into a Spanish MEP.

The directive is likely to come into effect before next year’s EU elections and facilitate decoupling from regimes such as China on human rights grounds.

Right-wing populists and socialist anti-war MEPs spoke out against the anti-disinformation report.

Chinese officials welcomed the comments which came despite the Netherlands’ attempts to restrict the export of semiconductor technology to China.

Proposals by Polish Green MEP Sylwia Spurek that would guarantee the right of EU citizens to live free from the smells caused by animal farming are the latest in a worrying anti-meat turn by Eurocrats.

The President of Kazakhstan laughed off the suggestion that his nation would accept Russian nuclear weapons.

The asylum surge into the EU continues unabated as 76,505 first-time asylum applicants arrived in Europe in February 2023.

In the latest battle between EU regulators and U.S. tech firms, Brussels claims that Apple benefited from tax breaks from the Irish government while Dublin struggles to keep both sides happy.

The results paint a picture of a region in transition: Sinn Féin steps up to the plate as a moderate party of government while unionists face uncertainty triggered by post-Brexit realities.

Party insiders expect tensions to boil over at a special conference next month, with the establishment centre-left party struggling to respond to the rise of the FPÖ.