German CDU elects Merkel rival Merz to lead party
The German conservative CDU party is set to replace former Chancellor Angela Merkel with her oldest “
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The Brief, powered by Goldman Sachs – How Europe teaches its past
It is hard to remember a time in Europe’s recent past when conspiracy theories and disinformation were so popular and scapegoating of communities so prevalent. Aside from the health crisis, the COVID pandemic has brought with it distant echoes of…
No checks on medicines from Britain to NI, under Commission proposals
The European Union has moved to ensure that medicines will continue to be available in Northern Ireland at the same time as in the rest of the UK, under new proposals published on Friday (17 December). Medicines entering NI from…
UK PM Johnson suffers by-election disaster
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday (17 December) suffered a crushing by-election defeat in a constituency never previously lost by his Conservative Party, a result which raises serious questions about his leadership. His party won the seat in North…
CoFoE: Lack of inclusion of people with disabilities is worrying
Persons with disabilities do not have an equal access to the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE), writes Yannis Vardakastanis. Yannis Vardakastanis is the president of the European Disability Forum and a member of the CoFoE Plenary. This problem…
Lukashenko’s jailed opposition leader and France’s digital push in EU Council Presidency
This week our Beyond the Byline podcast focuses on the imprisonment of an opposition leader in Belarus, the practices Alexander Lukashenko’s uses against his political opponents, and the EU’s position. To shed some light on the story, I am joined…
Protect Abortion Rights? Virginia Democrats’ Vacation Plans Get in the Way.
Some Virginia Democrats want to codify abortion rights into state law in their final weeks in power. But several state senators do not want to upend their travel to Hawaii, Europe and Africa. Virginia’s General Assembly does not allow proxy…
Logar meets French counterpart to discuss EU presidency
Slovenia’s Foreign Minister Anže Logar met his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian in Paris on Thursday (16 December) to present the achievements of the Slovenian presidency of the Council of the EU and to continue work on key European dossiers.…
EU will accept ‘significant corruption’ and journalist’s murder as price of gas pipeline
The European Commission seems ready to accept that “significant corruption” and the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia is the price to pay for a new gas pipeline linking Malta and Sicily that could receive EU funds, according to Caruana…
The 2021 in Tweets (Tweets of the week S5 E15)
A look back on the highlights of 20