Across the EU, a free and independent media is withering
With concentrated media ownership, there is a risk that media outlets can be used to push a specific agenda or political view or business interest, often to serve as a…
April 24, 2023
North Kosovo elections trigger harsh words, criticisms from Belgrade
Elections that took place in the north of Kosovo in four municipalities with a Serb majority registered the lowest turnout ever in the country’s history at just 3.47%, sparking harsh…
Lawmakers deadlocked over role of non-EU political parties
Tightening rules on EU political parties to prevent foreign interference could lead to parties from Ukraine and other pre-accession states being prevented from joining pan-EU political groups and “
What Scalia’s Defense of a Free Jet Trip Says About Thomas’s Travels
In a combative 2004 memo rejecting calls for his recusal, Justice Antonin Scalia discussed whether a trip on a litigant’s plane was a gift that had to be disclosed. Send any…
How Democrats Learned to Embrace Biden 2024
The president, who is expected to formally announce his re-election campaign this week, has won the full support of his party despite questions about his age and middling approval ratings.…
Spanish PM pledges more education, healthcare to help rural areas
Every Spaniard will have a doctor and a school within 30
Portuguese government launches tender for storing police bodycam images
The government has launched a public tender worth €1.48 million to purchase a platform that will manage and store information collected by bodycams and municipal video surveillance systems. The Internal…
Polish ruling party head slams EU’s Fit for 55 plans, says only richest states benefit
The EU’s Fit for 55 Agenda only benefits the richest member states and is imposed by a European Parliament led by a “Green communism” agenda, ruling party leader Jarosław Kaczyński…
Slovenia lobbies to tone down EU pesticide plans
Faced with mounting anger from farmers, the government has launched an effort to tone down the European Commission’s proposal to halve the use of chemicals and more dangerous phytopharmaceuticals by…
Bulgarian government ‘must do its job’ to enter Schengen in 2023, says minister
The country can join Schengen with a caretaker or stable government, but the parliament must do its job, commented the Caretaker Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev on Sunday. Bulgaria has been…