In this week's edition: Ukraine's road to Switzerland, a look at EU's past enlargement rounds and EU moves closer to Russian frozen assets deal.

Hundreds of Tunisians rallied Saturday in the town of El Amra to protest makeshift camps for migrants primarily from sub-Saharan African countries, correspondents said.

Russian attacks on Ukraine's Kharkiv and Dnipro regions and the Black Sea port city of Odesa killed at least two civilians, set a food factory ablaze and damaged other infrastructure, homes and commercial buildings on Saturday (4 May), regional officials said.

The first names of Besoin d'Europe were unveiled on Friday (3 May). Outgoing members of the parliament who distinguished themselves during the last term are given priority. Several regional representatives complete the list, but with no war prize in sight.

On Saturday (4 May) the top MEP candidate for the Saxony branch of the German Social Democratic Party Matthias Ecke was beaten by a group of people in Dresden, leaving him with broken bones and unresponsive.

EU member states are converging on a compromise text to use windfall profits from immobilised Russian assets to help Ukraine shoulder the financial cost of fighting Russia as time is pressing to seal the deal before the second half of...

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The European Commission has warned three Chinese electric vehicle makers that they have not supplied sufficient information for its anti-subsidy investigation, according to two people familiar with the case.

Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico, has announced a new wave of proposed cost-saving measures aimed at deficit reduction, but they risk impacting Slovakia's health service and health insurance provision.

Swedish researchers are preparing a national clinical trial with the aim to personalise off-label cancer drugs for patients who have run out of treatment options. The trial hopes to lead to a broad adoption of precision medicine in cancer care across Sweden.

Hungary has launched a new nutritional vigilance website to tackle poor data transparency for dietary supplement side effects. An expanding market and misleading advertising have increased consumer risks, which the site now seeks to counter.

The lead candidate of the German far-right party AfD, Maximilian Krah, will not be investigated for the Chinese espionage allegations like his former assistant, unrelated preliminary investigations involving alleged bribery are still ongoing, Euractiv has learned.

Azerbaijan and Armenia’s foreign ministers plan to meet in Almaty sparking fresh hopes for a peace treaty between the two adversaries and a reset in relations with the European Union.

On Monday (6 May) France will present a new pesticide reduction plan, expected to align to the EU standard the way the country measures the chemicals' impact and risk, amidst NGOs protests for "a European race to the bottom".

Success for the EU’s REPowerEU strategy will make Europe’s buildings more energy efficient and reduce Europe's reliance on Russian fossil fuels, but McKinsey says tech scale-up is needed to reach targets.

The EU likes to think of itself as the birthplace and guardian of the free media. But at least once a year, it has a chance to look the truth in the face - and it's not pretty.

Eurostat published its latest data on estimated life expectancy on Friday (3 May) and there is good news: We have gained an extra 0.9 years on 2022. 

EU countries and European institutions must do much more to share and centralise sensitive data, to better apprehend economic security risks and more efficiently protect supply chains from increasingly predacious geopolitical actors, writes Mathieu Duchâtel.

On World Press Freedom Day, Swedish Radio’s Director General and Vice President of the EBU, Cilla Benkö, notes the dire state of media freedom in Europe. She calls for the safety of journalists and respect for independent, trustworthy reporting. She warns that threats to media freedom go hand in hand with threats to democracy.