The chances of the European Court of Justice ruling in favour of the European Parliament’s lawsuit against the Commission over its decision to unfreeze €10 billion for Hungary are “very weak”, European Parliament vice president Katarina Barley said. The European…
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On February 24, the world will reflect on the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. While attention is understandably focused on the current phase of Russia’s war, this week also marked ten years since the Kremlin first began…
Sweden is in a serious international situation, facing growing threats from foreign powers such as Russia at a time when the country is at a key stage in its accession to NATO, according to the Swedish Security Service’s annual threat…
Blackmail has never been a principle of global climate agreements. But rather than receiving promised financial and technological support, less-developed countries are being punished (Photo: Jas Min) The EU has heralded its new ‘Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism’ (CBAM) as an…
Italians are among the most sceptical and disillusioned Europeans about the future of Ukraine, and, above all, they do not believe that the EU has played a positive role in the conflict, according to a survey by the European Council…
The controversial appointment of German CDU MEP Markus Pieper as the new EU envoy for small and medium-sized enterprises has raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest for European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. As reported in David Carretta’s…
The new Pact on Migration and Asylum will not only violate human rights, but will also prove to be ineffective for the goals it has been conceived for, writes Gaia Romeo. Gaia Romeo is a Vrije Universiteit Brussel researcher who…
Farmers from eastern European and Baltic countries – namely the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Bulgaria – joined forces on Thursday to protest against EU policies, with many of their governments either supporting the farmers or at…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has left the door open on the possibility of some parties of the conservative ECR joining her centre-right European People’s Party in the new European Parliament after the June elections. Asked by journalists…