European Union leaders will try to overcome staunch resistance to both a funding plan for Ukraine and a massive trade deal with South America during a summit in Brussels starting Thursday — insisting that the bloc’s reputation is on the line.

The European Union's parliament voted on Wednesday in favour of a scheme that would enable women from nations restricting abortion to terminate pregnancies in another member state free of charge.

Europe has some of the world’s most ambitious climate goals, but in recent months it has backtracked on rules governing automobile emissions and deforestation.

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The European Union has reportedly agreed to push back its implementation of all-electric new car sales to at least 2040 following pressure by automakers, labor unions, and consumer demand, according to a new report by British newspaper The Times.

The European Parliament voted Dec. 17 in favor of a resolution supporting the creation of a new fund intended to expand access to abortion services across EU member states.

For decades the European Union has laboriously tamed their residual jingoism. In one interminable summit after another, 27 sets of national laws have been harmonised, border checks eradicated, currencies fused into one.

Britain will rejoin the European Union’s flagship Erasmus student-exchange program, it was announced Wednesday, in a major step for efforts to reset the U.K.'s post-Brexit relations with the 27-nation bloc.