An agreement to establish a large marine protected area in the Mediterranean is in the pipeline between Italy, France, Spain, and Cyprus to meet EU targets on the protection of the sea and biodiversity, Italy’s environment minister said on Thursday.…
‘Friendship’ groups of MEPs with countries outside the EU will be banned under new plans to improve transparency in the European Parliament in the wake of the Qatargate bribery scandal. There are currently dozens of ‘friendship’ groups and other policy…
A street protest by hard-right Sweden Democrat supporters – while the party are not officially in government, they now yield considerable influence over policies (Photo: Wikimedia) New year, new Swedish leadership in the European Council. And in 20
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Vyacheslav Volodin has played a significant role in the Putin presidency and is now chairman of the Duma Russians who have gone abroad and criticised their country or its military should have their property confiscated,…
Charges of sedition against the former leader of the Catalonia region were dropped by a Spanish Supreme Court judge on Thursday after Spain’s government scrubbed the crime from the country’s penal code. Puigdemont, who exiled himself to Belgium following Catalonia’s…
The CEO of Portugal’s national flag carrier, Christine Ourmières-Widener, will testify in parliament next Wednesday, following a mandatory request from the conservative Chega party over a controversial golden handshake. The Chega party want Ourmières-Widener to provide explanations regarding a €500,000
The government has decided to help out all electricity and natural gas providers with compensation for having to sell energy at capped prices, in a measure estimated at around €350 million annually. The eligibility criteria have been set by the…
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The European Parliament Committee for Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs (LIBE) approved the liberalisation of visas for Kosovo citizens on Thursday. The agreement was initially reached in December between Parliament, the Council, and the Presidency of the EU which…