This briefing analyses the current situation of women's rights in Afghanistan, taking a long view. Women's rights have been an intense battleground between different actors for over a century, with ...

This publication presents Parliament's powers, including the most recent changes following the reform of Parliament's Rules of Procedure in April 2024.

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 ...

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

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.

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

Even though the European defence technological and industrial base (EDTIB) is generally competitive, years of underinvestment have kept it from reaching its full potential.

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 ...