MEPs have agreed a series of guarantees designed to ensure that the EU Commission will suspend farming imports under its controversial new Mercosur trade deal with South America if there is evidence ...

A new EU-wide list of "safe countries" has been agreed by MEPs which will make it significantly more difficult for people from those countries to successfully seek asylum from in Europe. The new list ...

All Maltese MEPs voted in favour of a text, adopted by the European Parliament, which would make it easier for member states to send asylum seekers to countries they did not come from but are ...

Labour MEP Thomas Bajada and Nationalist Party MEP Peter Agius have joined forces to petition the European Commission to address the disproportionate impact the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) on ...

The European Parliament has voted in favour of safeguards to protect farmers if the Mercosur deal goes ahead - despite three Irish MEPs opposing the plan and warning it does not go far enough. The ...

Maltese MEPs Peter Agius (EPP) and Thomas Bajada (S&D), together with colleagues from Italy and Cyprus, are backing a cross-party push for an ‘island clause’ in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) ...

MEPs vote to allow people to be deported to places they have never been to, as NGOs express fears over new ‘safe third countries’ list The EU has moved closer to creating offshore centres for migrants ...

Sinn Féin’s two MEPs are set to vote against a €90 billion European Union loan to war-torn Ukraine when the proposal comes before the European Parliament on Wednesday. If approved, the loan would ...

MEPs have reached agreement on the conditions necessary to resume implementation of the tariff agreement with the US after pausing work over fresh threats linked to Greenland, with a crunch vote now ...

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The European Parliament has given the green light to the first list of “safe countries of origin” whose citizens will no longer be able to seek asylum in the EU. The list includes Bangladesh, Colombia ...

The European Parliament has disabled AI features on tablets that it provides to lawmakers citing security concerns, according to an email sent to MEPs on Monday and seen by Euractiv. The email states ...