Gaza faces starvation unless Israel allows โ€˜immediateโ€™ aid, European leaders warn

Joint appeal from Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Slovenia and Spain seeks a u-turn from Israel.

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Dreamer No. 8 โ€” The survivor

The 5 commissioners most likely to get the chop

Once every five years the European Parliament gets to pick off a nominee or two โ€” and rarely fails to do so.

Meet the commissioners: Class of 2024

Everything you need to know about Ursula von der Leyen’s team for her second term.

Von der Leyen fait pression sur les pays de lโ€™UE pour quโ€™ils remplacent leurs choix de commissaires par des femmes

La quรชte de la prรฉsidente de la Commission europรฉenne pour lโ€™รฉgalitรฉ des genres semble mal engagรฉe.

Von der Leyen pressures EU countries to swap women in as commissioner picks

European Commission presidentโ€™s drive for gender equality looks to fall short.

Romania changes EU commissioner pick, puts forward a woman

MEP Roxana Mรฎnzatu gets the nod from Bucharest.

Von der Leyenโ€™s new Commission: The names we know so far โ€” as Belgium misses deadline

Almost all the nominees have been put forward for the next top team of EU commissioners.

Maltaโ€™s Chris Fearne looks out of the running as EU commissioner after court decision

The court ruled there is enough evidence for all those accused in a hospital contract scandal to stand trial.

Commissioner Kyriakides rules out second EU term

The health commissioner will return to Cyprus at the end of her mandate.

Maltaโ€™s Fearne could still be EU commissioner nominee if court clears him, says PM Abela

Fearne will find out in two weeks if a court deems there to be enough evidence to proceed in hospital fraud case.

All politics is local: What the EU election is actually about in each country

When EU voters head to the polls later this week, one thing is certain: Almost none of them will be thinking of Europe when they cast their ballot.ย  A plethora of studies โ€” and sky-high abstention rates โ€” show that most of the blocโ€™s citizens neither understand nor care about the European Parliament vote. Because [โ€ฆ]

The frontrunners for the next European Commission

Even before the European elections, maneuvering is under way for top jobs in Brussels.

Maltese PM โ€˜proudโ€™ of deputy PM, EU commissioner candidate charged with defrauding government

Maltaโ€™โ€™s Prime Minister Robert Abela said both he and the country are proud of the work done by former deputy prime minister and minister for European Funds and the countryโ€™s EU commissioner candidate Chris Fearne who resigned after he was charged with…

Maltaโ€™s Fearne resigns, ends Commission bid, protests innocence

The former candidate for Malta’s next European Commissioner resigned after it was revealed he will face criminal charges of fraud and misappropriation.

Maltese central bank governor, deputy PM face charges in snowballing corruption case

Malta’s political elite is being rocked by impending charges over a 2015 hospital concession deal.

Maltaโ€™s ex-PM attacks judiciary as charges filed against him in hospitals probe

Maltaโ€™s former prime minister Joseph Muscat and current Prime Minister Robert Abela have been called out for attacking the judiciary as charges have been filed against the former in the latest instalment of a money laundering scandal that has sent shoc…

European Parliament chief, Maltese PM trade accusations over Maltese language use

Maltaโ€™s Socialist Prime Minister Robert Abela has criticised European Parliament President Roberta Metsola for not doing enough to promote her native Maltese language, in a letter seen by Euractiv, following the continued exclusion of the language from…