Organization
European Union
The European Union is a political and economic union of 27 member states. NewsBriefing covers it as a legislative machine: who proposes, who amends, who blocks and who implements.
Topics
Every article is filed against the institutions and subjects it concerns. Over time this becomes a map of how European decisions connect to one another.
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Organization
European Commission
The European Commission is the executive branch of the European Union and holds the right of legislative initiative. Its directorates-general draft the proposals that eventually reach member states.
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European Parliament
The European Parliament is the European Union's directly elected chamber. It amends and votes on most EU legislation jointly with the Council, and its political groups decide what survives.
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European Central Bank
The European Central Bank (ECB) sets monetary policy for the euro area and supervises significant banks. Its Governing Council meets roughly every six weeks.
Organization
European Council
The European Council brings together the heads of state or government of the member states. It sets the Union's political direction and settles the questions that ministers cannot.
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Artificial Intelligence
Europe regulates artificial intelligence primarily through the Artificial Intelligence Act, a risk-tiered product-safety law. NewsBriefing follows implementation, standards work and enforcement capacity.
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Energy
Electricity market design, grid investment, gas supply and the industrial cost of decarbonisation across the European Union.
Organization
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is the security alliance through which most European defence spending is coordinated.
Place
Ukraine
Russia's invasion of Ukraine reshaped European security, energy and enlargement policy. NewsBriefing covers the war's consequences for European decision-making.
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Monetary Policy
Interest rates, inflation and the transmission of European Central Bank decisions into the real economy of the euro area.
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Trade
European Union trade policy: tariffs, trade defence instruments, and the agreements that govern the Union's commerce with the rest of the world.
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Enlargement
The process by which candidate countries join the European Union, and the internal reforms enlargement would require.
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Migration
Asylum and migration policy across the European Union, including the Pact on Migration and Asylum and the Schengen area's internal controls.
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Rule of Law
Judicial independence, media freedom and the conditionality mechanisms the European Union uses to tie funds to democratic standards.
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Elections
National and European elections, read for what they change in Brussels rather than for the campaign itself.
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Climate Policy
The European Green Deal, emissions trading and the regulatory machinery through which the Union pursues its climate targets.
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Digital Regulation
The Digital Markets Act, the Digital Services Act and the European Union's wider attempt to set rules for online platforms.
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European Defence
Defence procurement, industrial capacity and the slow construction of a European pillar within the Atlantic alliance.
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Euro Area
The member states that use the euro, the fiscal rules that bind them, and the debates about completing the monetary union.
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The European Right
The rise of national-conservative and radical-right parties across Europe, and the effect on coalition arithmetic in national capitals and in Strasbourg.