EUobserver

From Hungary to France, financial strains, political influence, and growing restrictions on press freedom are ever worse in Europe, the general secretary of the European Federation of Journalists, Ricardo Gutiérrez, tells EUobserver in an interview.

Rightwing groups in the European Parliament have extended for six months a controversial committee investigating NGOs that receive EU funding.

“Ever since the 1990s, the narrative has been … ‘divide and conquer’ in the Balkans. The students have a different approach: ‘unite and conquer’.”

The EU agrees to reform social security rules for cross-border workers, following a decade of stalled negotiations and repeated impasses over key provisions.