Ukraine, with Russian troops on its borders, is pressing for membership. But President Biden and European leaders are not ready for that step. Ukrainian troops took part in an exercise near Kyiv in December. If Ukraine were a NATO member, the…
Ukraine, with Russian troops on its borders, is pressing for membership. But President Biden and European leaders are not ready for that step. Ukrainian troops took part in an exercise near Kyiv in December. If Ukraine were a NATO member, the…
The Republican National Committee says it will require candidates to pledge to not participate in debates run by the Commission on Presidential Debates. What would replace them, if anything, was unclear. The intensity of Republican frustration with the debate commission…
Senator Kyrsten Sinema’s comments came after the House approved a new measure on a party-line vote of 220 to 203. While all 50 Senate Democrats support the legislation, Republicans are almost uniformly opposed, leaving Democrats short of the 60
This week our Beyond the Byline podcast focuses on Kazakhstan, the demonstrations that caused significant unrest across the country, Russia’s involvement, and possible measures coming from the EU. To shed some light on the story, we spoke with EURACTIV’s Senior…
A National Guard member administering a coronavirus test last week in Ohio, one of six states to which the Biden administration will deploy military medical personnel. WASHINGTON — President Biden on Thursday said he was directing his staff to purchase…
The EU needs to reflect on current mechanisms, legislation, and processes, and the ongoing Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) will not fail, a senior French official has said in a rare show of support for the fledgling democratic…
Participatory budgeting (PB) – the shared decision between city leaders and inhabitants on spending a part of the municipal budget – is becoming an increasingly popular democratic tool in Europe. According to the Participatory Budgeting World Atlas, with over 4,500
Yannick Jadot, the Green party candidate in the French presidential elections, has put Europe at the core of his presidential project. While this comes as no surprise, seducing the not-so- pro-EU French electorate with such an approach will be difficult.…
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