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The EU's justice commissioner on 2 July described illegal immigration via Turkey a risk to Greek democracy and called again on Ankara to do more to combat people-traffickers.
Just weeks before the European Commission is due to publish an assessment on Bulgaria and Romania's accession to the EU, the French Senate cautioned against "stigmatising" the EU's most recent members and suggested fine-tuning the Union's Cooperation and Verification Mechanism, set up to assist the two countries after their entry.
Following oil slicks that devastated European coasts in the past decade, the Commission is taking further action to improve maritime safety by preventing accidents and pollution and better controlling their effects. (read more)
Security in the online world is essential for the internet to realise its economic potential - but experts agree that there is no simple solution to a problem that has multiple dimensions: technological, societal, economic and psychological. (read more)
EU policy-makers have put in place legislation to ensure that sanctions are enforced against those causing deliberate or negligent damage to the environment, following eight years of negotiations. (read more)