Four Western Balkan countries, but not Serbia, on Wednesday, launched the new Western Balkans QUAD- 100% Alignment with EU Common Foreign Security Policy (CFSP) platform aimed at ensuring full alignment with the EU acquis on security and foreign policy matters.…
Belgian authorities have charged seven people over “possible terrorist attacks”, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday (29 March). The announcement came the day after prosecutors said they had detained eight people following raids on suspicion of planning an Islamist attack in…
The struggles among Republicans to put forth a budget reflect the perilous path ahead for lawmakers who must broker a debt deal by the summer to avert a catastrophic default. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
The president has promised a veto, but Republicans scored another win in their campaign to put Congress on record against White House policies. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
The UK government Tuesday (28 March) raised the terrorism threat level in Northern Ireland to “severe”, ahead of an expected visit by US President Joe Biden to mark the 25th anniversary of a landmark peace accord. The domestic spy agency…
The former president is attempting to cast the investigations into his actions as politically motivated uses of the justice system. In office, he regularly sought to use government powers against his foes. Send any friend a story As a subscriber,…
Members of the European Parliament of the civil liberties committee adopted their position on key migration files on Tuesday (28 March), inaugurating the beginning of inter-institutional negotiations between the European Parliament and EU ministers. The group of files is due…
This article is part of our special report A look at democratic experiments across Europe. EU citizens’ panels introduced after the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) mean deliberative democracy experiments will continue at the EU level, but they…
Energy Minister Claude Turmes took aim at Germany’s business-friendly FDP for stalling the combustion engine row over the past few weeks and criticised Paris for its recent repeated attempts at pro-nuclear lobbying. Turmes, a green politician and former EU lawmaker,…
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will visit China this week to explore how Beijing could play a more prominent role in ending the war in Ukraine, as relations with the world’s biggest economy pose no major hurdles. Sánchez will be…