Record 107,500 migrants arrived in EU in July

Flights, trains, and buses all but grind to a halt in Belgium on Monday, as trade unions stage a general strike against public sector cuts linked to EU budget rules.

Rising income inequality has cost European economies up to 10 percent in lost economic output over the past twenty years, according to a new report by the bloc's leading economic thinktank.

After recent implant scandals, revised EU legislation should make medical devices subject to more stringent tests, but health ministers are dragging their feet.

French president Francois Hollande's one-day visit to Guinea is meant to send a “message of solidarity”.

Ebola is flaring up as aid agencies struggle to keep staff on the ground, while EU pledges and donations have yet to appear.

Tax havens in places like Luxembourg are zapping billions of euros from the coffers of developing countries and forcing weak governments to rely on dwindling international development aid, experts say.

The EU's recently-agreed tobacco directive will be challenged at the bloc's top court after cigarette manufacturers won the right to have a judicial review.

Spain says outbreak under control, but Belgium quarantines one traveller, while the UK expects a "handful" of Ebola cases in coming months.

Glasgow is often held up as an example of how to integrate Roma, but community workers say this has nothing to do with an EU-funded project active there.

Estonia on Thursday became the first former Soviet republic to grant equal rights to same-sex couples, amid a nasty atmosphere.

The EU commission has said future EU members could face extra controls on movement of workers in a concession to the UK.

Outgoing EU commissioner for employment Laszlo Andor defended EU-wide efforts to tackle youth unemployment amid critical remarks from MEPs.