In Brussels and Strasbourg, the EU's ultra-liberal policies find their way into the toilets of the Parliament. Housekeepers, employed by subcontractors, toil to make the institution shine. Invisible and poorly paid, they denounce their difficult working conditions.

Nearly a quarter of the sailors on French fishing boats are foreigners. The sector suffers from a lack of attractiveness, but the European Union has not clearly identified it as being “under pressure”. Report from Senegalese fishermen in the Arcachon Basin.

To cope with a widespread shortage of doctors in Europe, member countries are competing to recruit foreign graduates. While Germany facilitates their integration, France keeps them in a precarious position.

France struggled to orchestrate the rewriting of the European directive that was supposed to strengthen the rights of platform workers, adopted on 11 March. At the heart of the EU-27 institutions, officials recount France's fight behind-the-scenes.

Despite its commitments, the European Commission is struggling to reduce the use of synthetic fertilisers in the EU. And yet, according to environmentalists, synthetic fertilisers are a disaster for the climate.

The European Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Fund (EAMEF), a scheme set up in 2014 to become the European Union's (EU) arm in supporting sustainable fisheries.

The French authorities have not imposed any financial penalties on industrial sites that have exceeded their greenhouse gas emission quotas, in contravention of European rules.

The cornerstone of the European Union's sustainable finance system has got off to a rocky startwith business reluctance and a lack of ambition.