EU Insider News

Aug 30, 2026

Spain Rewrites Its Asylum Law a Month After Ceuta

Madrid's cabinet approved two draft laws on 25 August that import the EU migration pact's screening and border procedures into Spanish law. It is the first hard policy consequence of July's mass crossing — and the basic facts of that crossing are still contested.

The Europe Debate

Aug 30, 2026

The EU Grades Candidates on Delivery. Its Own Score Is 15.7%

Two EPIC indexes measure the same thing — whether recommendations turn into binding law. One scores ten countries queuing to join the EU. The other scores the European Commission. The candidates do not come off worse.

News & Analysis

Aug 30, 2026

Italy's Schengen Suspension Expires Tuesday. Nine States Keep Theirs

Italy's checks on travellers from Spain lapse on 1 September and Spain's on 7 September. In June the Commission formally asked nine other governments to wind their controls down. Most declined.

News & Analysis

Aug 29, 2026

Iceland votes Saturday on reopening the EU talks it abandoned in 2015

Icelanders vote on Saturday on whether to restart accession negotiations frozen in 2013 and abandoned two years later. Polling is inside the margin of error, and the country that would become the EU's richest new member has the least to gain economically from joining.

The Europe Debate

Aug 29, 2026

The AfD leads by twenty points in Saxony-Anhalt and the firewall is cracking

Polls put the far right above 40 per cent before the 6 September vote, roughly twenty points clear of the CDU. If it takes power it would be a first in postwar Germany, and the party's own voters name the economy as their reason.

Business & Economy

Aug 29, 2026

Europe has learnt to price its own paperwork, not its market

The Commission says it has cut about EUR 18bn of the EUR 37.5bn in recurring red tape it promised to remove by 2029. That precision makes the number nobody has produced — what completing the single market would be worth — look stranger, not smaller.

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Spain Rewrites Its Asylum Law a Month After Ceuta

The EU Grades Candidates on Delivery. Its Own Score Is 15.7%

Italy's Schengen Suspension Expires Tuesday. Nine States Keep Theirs

Iceland votes Saturday on reopening the EU talks it abandoned in 2015

The AfD leads by twenty points in Saxony-Anhalt and the firewall is cracking

Europe has learnt to price its own paperwork, not its market