US Federal Trade Commission bureau director says EU national data protection authorities had only referred four privacy complaints over the 15 years life span of Safe Harbour.

Turkish expats can vote in national elections since 2012 - a potential deciding factor, as Erdogan tries to reassert authority in 1 November poll.

EU Commission chief Juncker called a mini-summit of EU and Balkan leaders Sunday. The difference between his activism and Tusk's discretion is keenly felt within their EPP party.

The European Commission has proposed that the euro area should speak with one voice in the IMF by 2025, in a move to strengthen the currency bloc.

The EU commission ruled that sweetheart tax deals between Starbuck and the Netherlands and Fiat's financial subsidiary and Luxembourg amounted to illegal state aid and ordered the member states to make the companies pay.

The EU is preparing to send peace monitors to Libya if a new ceasefire deal holds, according to a document seen by the Reuters news agency.

The congress of the centre-right party in Madrid has adopted a resolution on migration policy that it says will be discussed at the next EU ministers' meeting.

EU ministers will Thursday try to clinch a deal on next year's Baltic fishing quotas. "Stop ignoring scientific advice", a green group says.

A 59-year old container ship captain plans to launch a Dutch pilot vessel in the Mediterranean in late December or January next year.

German emissions testing expert Axel Friedrich says more companies will be exposed for cheating with defeat devices.

Ireland's data protection commissioner has been ordered to launch a privacy probe into Facebook data transfers from Europe to the United States.

Slovenia, struggling to cope with the wave of refugees, has called in the army, and is asking the EU for extra police back-up and financial help.