Electrification is the process of replacing technologies and systems that rely on fossil fuels with those powered by electricity, often sourced from renewable energy.

United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3) aims to ensure 'healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages'.

Commissioners were originally appointed by common accord of the Member States' governments for a renewable term of office of four years (Article 158 Treaty of Rome).

Parliament's competence to establish its own rules of procedure (RoP) is enshrined in Article 232 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), and further detailed in Rule 243 (ex ...

According to the EU Treaties, the Commission is accountable to the Parliament as a body and must resign if the Parliament adopts a motion of censure.

The new intake of recently elected and returning Members gather in Strasbourg from 16 to 19 September, as Parliament holds the first plenary session after the summer. Debate is due to commence on ...

Hungary assumed the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union on 1 July, and will stay in office until 31 December 2024.

On 30 June 2021, the European Union adopted the European Climate Law (Regulation (EU) 2021/1119). Mandated by the 2019 European Green Deal, the Regulation sets an EU-wide, legally binding target of ...

Hate speech and hate crime have proliferated over the past two decades. Written by Beatrix Immenkamp with Ionel Zamfir and David de Groot.

In the context of the war in Ukraine, the increasingly global effects – material and political – of war make measuring a view of the level of threats to peace, security and democracy around the world ...

Strengthening the European Union's economy in the face of rising global economic and political competition and managing the 'twin transitions' of the digital and green transformation is a key ...

On 26 July 2024, after 5 years of negotiations, 82 members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) reached an agreement on the first-ever global rules on electronic commerce.