Dear readers, Welcome to EU Politics Decoded where Benjamin Fox and Eleonora Vasques will bring you a round-up of the latest political news in Europe and beyond every Thursday. In this edition, we look at the admission by EU migration…
The president of the European People’s Party (EPP), Manfred Weber, and the head of the Spanish centre-right delegation to the European Parliament, Dolors Montserrat, on Wednesday, accused EU Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius of “campaigning” for the socialist-led Spanish government due to…
Russia’s decision to temporarily take over the Russian assets of Fortum has not caused panic among investors and after a slump, the company’s share recovered. The Russian Federal Agency for State Property Management announced on Tuesday evening that the assets…
The Swedish government was urged on Wednesday to speed up the next governmental decision on defence and rearmament to take effect as early as 20
Slovakia has avoided a real debate about its relationship, economic and political, with China, straddling between more hawkish voices in its neighbourhood, most prominently Czech and Lithuanian ones, and the China doves in countries such as Hungary (Photo: Jean Beller)…
Spain and Brazil have joined forces to make progress on the currently stalled EU-Mercosur trade agreement, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his Brazilian counterpart, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, announced in Madrid on Wednesday. Sánchez (PSOE/S&D) held a joint…
Leading politicians, businesses and trade associations from Italy and Ukraine spoke about the war-torn country’s reconstruction in Rome on Wednesday. The idea behind the event is not to wait for the cessation of hostilities in Ukraine but to act now…
The bans on Ukrainian grain and other food products that were unilaterally introduced by the war-torn country’s neighbours are not a viable solution, Konstantinos Baginetas, secretary general of Greece’s agriculture ministry, told EU agriculture and fisheries ministers in Luxembourg on…
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(Photo: Twitter) The morning of March 27th started like most for me. It was the first week of Ramadan and I had just begun working through some tasks in relation to our latest crowdfunding campaign, when I received an email…