The 2026 report found that 47 per cent of its recommendations made in last year's report have been followed up, either fully or partially.

The legislation, which includes the setting up of deportation centres located outside the EU, is designed to increase the low removal number of failed asylum seekers from the current 28 per cent.

Nuclear power remains attractive from an energy security and decarbonisation perspective, but Hungary illustrates how such projects have become more complicated economically and geopolitically to build than a decade ago.

In a report, HRW urges the EU Commission to strengthen due diligence and transparency rules after finding surveillance tech produced by EU companies is being exported to states with poor human rights records.

In a report, HRW urges the EU Commission to strengthen due diligence and transparency rules after finding surveillance tech produced by EU companies is being exported to states with poor human rights records.

If the European Commission decides to follow the parliament’s recommendation, it could start a process that both Hungary and Poland went through when they were governed by anti-EU, populist governments.

Mark Rutte said any Ukraine peace deal must not be a re-run of the 2015 agreement, which merely paved the way for Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.