President Andrzej Duda vetoed an education reform that he claims has not yet received broad social acceptance after receiving 133 letters protesting the reform. This is the second time that Duda has refused to sign reforms to the Polish education…
The Czech Presidency proposed a phased instead of immediate full Schengen membership for Bulgaria and Romania to unblock their admission, diplomatic sources say, but this was not enough. Last week, the ambitions of Romania and Bulgaria to join the Schengen…
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen and her Rassemblement National are gaining credibility among right-wing voters although most French people still view her as a danger to democracy, a recent survey has found. Read the original French story here. Trust in…
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said there will never be a referendum on self-determination in Catalonia and has stated the region’s independence process is over. Speaking at a press conference in Brussels on Thursday after the meeting of EU leaders,…
An initial memorandum for accession to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) was formally submitted by Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca. Romania does not see the accession to the OECD as a purpose in itself but a catalyst for…
The Slovenian parliament passed a bill implementing the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into national law as the last country in the bloc to do so. The legislation, which was passed on Thursday, was drafted under the previous government…
We are calling on EU institutions to implement long overdue reforms: a mandatory registration of meetings between all MEPs and lobbyists; a firewall for lobbies in repressive regimes; a reform of the current lobby register to make it legally binding.…
Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti said he expects the country to become an EU member in nine years following the filing of the application for membership this week, while calls for Serbs to dismantle barricades in the north intensify from…
Albania has been ranked last in Europe for per capita income and purchasing power, according to newly-published Eurostat data for 20
Leo Varadkar takes over for the second time as Ireland’s prime minister this weekend, in a handover of power between the two main political partners in the three-party governing coalition. Varadkar, who is mixed race, openly gay and is still…