French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne will meet European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday to defend and voice support for the French position on energy. This is the first bilateral meeting between von der Leyen and Borne since…
Dear readers, Welcome to EU Politics Decoded where Benjamin Fox and Eleonora Vasques bring you a round-up of the latest political news in Europe and beyond every Thursday. In this edition, we look at how Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation as Scotland’s first minister could spell the…
Ukraine will boycott the OSCE meeting in Vienna due to Russian participation, with Ukrainian parliamentarians fearing a “whitewash” of Russian war crimes and their speaker calling for it to be postponed as it will be held exactly one year after…
The prisoner swap treaty between Belgium and Iran could free Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele, currently trapped in Iran, if an agreement is reached in the coming weeks. In January, Olivier Vandecasteele – the Belgian aid worker who has been…
Members of the European Parliament voted on Wednesday (15 February) to push EU countries to ratify the Council of Europe’s (CoE) Istanbul Convention in line with a European Court of Justice 2021 ruling. In 20
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Support for Ukraine, reconstruction and the country’s EU application process were among the topics Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson discussed with his counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Wednesday. Kristersson went to Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.…
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is to begin his mini EU tour on Thursday to give Madrid’s priorities for when it takes over the six-month rotating EU Council presidency in July. Sanchez’s mini-tour will take him through Austria, Croatia and Slovenia,…
The European Commission launched legal proceedings against Poland on Wednesday, citing the Constitutional Tribunal’s 2021 ruling as challenging the supremacy of EU law. In 20
Bulgaria, a major producer of ammunition used by Ukrainian soldiers, has sent all the armaments required under a parliamentary decision, Acting Minister of Defense Dimitar Stoyanov, echoing the previous words of President Rumen Radev. Bulgaria is a major producer of…