The European Parliament's September 2024 plenary session took place as floods devastated many areas in central European Member States, leading Members to debate and adopt a resolution on the EU's ...

Gender equality is an issue of human rights and justice. Empowering women and girls gives them greater agency to get their voices heard and orient development in ways that meet their needs.

On 5 March 2024, the European Commission – together with the High Representative and the European Defence Agency (EDA) – presented the first-ever European defence industrial strategy (EDIS).

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.

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

EU budget funds the EU policies and programmes that translate the Union’s political priorities and legal obligations into action.

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

China’s growth performance since it started to open up in 1978 has been more than impressive, and has – as recently pointed out in the 2023 Article IV report on China by the IMF – ‘far exceeded that ...

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). Written by Kamil Baraník. The ...