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…
Francesco Giorgi, the partner of ousted European Parliament vice-president Eva Kaili, has confessed his role in a Qatar graft scandal, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The confession to Belgian investigators was first reported on Thursday…
A vote at the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) on Qatar’s visa liberalisation exposes Greek MEP Eva Kaili as she was not a member of the committee, along with the Socialists and Democrats (S&D)…
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Social democratic Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s proposal to set a possible price cap for electricity took the opposition and her government colleagues by surprise. Finnish electricity production has been hit with a triple blow. Cold temperatures, seemingly everlasting problems with…
The Slovak government lost Thursday’s no-confidence vote as a majority of the National Council decided to vote against them leading to its collapse and an uncertain way forward. Out of 150
Former Education Minister and chemistry professor Nikolay Denkov will be promoted as a candidate for prime minister, Bulgaria’s second largest political party, We Continue the Change, announced on Thursday. On Wednesday, former prime minister Boyko Borisov’s GERB party failed to…