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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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How an old boy’s network hijacked Europe’s plan for a green future
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Europe’s quest for more economic independence – and its pitfalls
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Frans Timmermans: wielding power in the Brussels minefield
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Prominent EU Commissioner gratefully accepted royal treatment in the Emirates
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Cash for reforms? Hard choices yet to come for EU’s recovery fund
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Brussels struggles to weed out shady consultancies
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MEP working on tech laws sees no problem in owning Apple stock
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Cash from Qatar: how could this happen in the European Parliament?
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EU countries agree to reveal the winners of the 700 billion euro recovery fund
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Putin’s oligarchs the EU prefers not to punish
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EU Ombudsman: Commission failed to give reasons for secrecy on recovery plans
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Maverick economist Tommaso Valletti: ‘It’s time to fight the tech titans’
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Financing the EU recovery fund proves trickier than handing out cash
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Europe thinks it can get rich by skimming off electricity’s ‘dream profits’
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‘The liberalised energy market has not resulted in fair energy prices’
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Consultancies profit handsomely from the EU recovery fund
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The public has spoken: these are Pitch Europe’s finalists
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Political scientist Tommaso Pavone on neglect of the rule of law: ‘The European Commission has all too often been a bystander’
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Brussels will not tolerate any ‘interference’ in how the corona billions are spent
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Brussels wants to scatter useless hydrogen filling stations all over Europe
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Lobby researcher: ‘The Kroes case shows superbly how the system is failing’
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Member States sabotage public scrutiny of EU-funds worth hundreds of billions of euros
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Conjuring up hundreds of billions without having a penny: here’s how Brussels does it
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Brussels wants to ban Russian lobbyists, but France is not cooperating
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Politics rolled out the red carpet for speculation on energy and food prices
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Most MEPs voting for transparency don’t publish office expenses
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Orbán fools Brussels and funnels millions to his favorite football clubs
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EU journalist Jan Werts: ‘For almost fifty years, I’ve wondered: who’s the boss in Europe?’
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European Commission officials admitted that internal record-keeping rules were vague
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