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What is happening in the European Union, the European Commission and the European Council? What are their aims and ambitions, and where does the EU money go to?

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The EU Files
26 May

Europe's leaders wipe out their tracks by deleting e-mails and text messages

Peter Teffer
The EU Files
18 May

The US is major funder of lobbying activities of Europe’s civil society organisations

Salsabil Fayed, Daniël van Kessel, Lise Witteman & Ada Homolová
The EU Files
13 May

Corrupt EU officials escape justice after a decade of probes

Simon Van Dorpe
The EU Files
22 April 2023

From Huawei to Shell: corporate lobbies unimpededly recruit former EU Parliament staff

Peter Teffer
The EU Files
31 March 2023

EU countries fork out billions to hang on to electricity guzzling industry

Jesse Pinster & Ada Homolová
The EU Files
22 March 2023

How an old boy’s network hijacked Europe’s plan for a green future

Simon Van Dorpe
The EU Files
2 March 2023

Europe’s quest for more economic independence – and its pitfalls

Simon Van Dorpe
The EU Files
11 February 2023

Frans Timmermans: wielding power in the Brussels minefield

Jesse Pinster
The EU Files
3 February 2023

Prominent EU Commissioner gratefully accepted royal treatment in the Emirates

Simon Van Dorpe & Salsabil Fayed
The EU Files
25 January 2023

Cash for reforms? Hard choices yet to come for EU’s recovery fund

Peter Teffer
The EU Files
4 January 2023

Brussels struggles to weed out shady consultancies

Jasper Roorda
2022
The EU Files
27 December 2022

MEP working on tech laws sees no problem in owning Apple stock

Peter Teffer
The EU Files
18 December 2022

Cash from Qatar: how could this happen in the European Parliament?

Simon Van Dorpe, Peter Teffer & Salsabil Fayed
The EU Files
14 December 2022

EU countries agree to reveal the winners of the 700 billion euro recovery fund

Peter Teffer
The Russia Crisis
14 December 2022

Putin’s oligarchs the EU prefers not to punish

Jesse Pinster
The EU Files
1 December 2022

EU Ombudsman: Commission failed to give reasons for secrecy on recovery plans

Peter Teffer & Staffan Dahllöf
The EU Files
27 November 2022

Maverick economist Tommaso Valletti: ‘It’s time to fight the tech titans’

Simon Van Dorpe
1
The EU Files
4 November 2022

Financing the EU recovery fund proves trickier than handing out cash

Simon Van Dorpe
The EU Files
1 November 2022

Europe thinks it can get rich by skimming off electricity’s ‘dream profits’

Jesse Pinster & Ada Homolová
The EU Files
23 October 2022

‘The liberalised energy market has not resulted in fair energy prices’

Peter Teffer & Ada Homolová
The EU Files
18 October 2022

Consultancies profit handsomely from the EU recovery fund

Peter Teffer
The EU Files
6 October 2022

The public has spoken: these are Pitch Europe’s finalists

Lukas Kotkamp & Ties Gijzel
The EU Files
2 October 2022

Political scientist Tommaso Pavone on neglect of the rule of law: ‘The European Commission has all too often been a bystander’

Jesse Pinster & Lukas Kotkamp
The EU Files
13 September 2022

Brussels will not tolerate any ‘interference’ in how the corona billions are spent

Peter Teffer
2
The EU Files
28 July 2022

Brussels wants to scatter useless hydrogen filling stations all over Europe

Jesse Pinster
The EU Files
27 July 2022

Lobby researcher: ‘The Kroes case shows superbly how the system is failing’

Peter Teffer
The EU Files
29 June 2022

Member States sabotage public scrutiny of EU-funds worth hundreds of billions of euros

Lise Witteman
The EU Files
16 June 2022

Conjuring up hundreds of billions without having a penny: here’s how Brussels does it

Jesse Pinster
The Russia Crisis
23 May 2022

Brussels wants to ban Russian lobbyists, but France is not cooperating

Peter Teffer
The EU Files
6 May 2022

Politics rolled out the red carpet for speculation on energy and food prices

Lise Witteman