EUROPEAN POLITICS
Chinese President Xi Jinping said China and the EU must deepen trust in an unstable world, but the bloc’s leaders called for “real solutions” to overcome a tipping point at a meeting in Beijing on Thursday. China’s leaders have sought…
THE FOURTH ESTATE When was the last time you watched Euronews? Be honest. If you’re like us, it was during a late-night channel surfing at the Intercontinental in Sofia, sometime in the twenties, after trying in vain to find CNN.…
Anthony Harwood is a former foreign editor of the Daily Mail. When it comes to new legislation that has all the hallmarks of “classic EU pomade”, it’s hard to beat the trading bloc’s sustainability laws, which continue to be watered…
Israeli forces intercepted the British-flagged yacht Madleen early Monday morning, detaining Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and about a dozen others who were trying to break Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. The anti-Zionist Freedom Flotilla ship, which set out…
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban launched scathing attacks on the EU on Monday at a rally in France aimed at demonstrating the unity and strength of the anti-immigration wing of European policy. Far-right…
China’s Commerce Ministry said on Saturday it had proposed creating a “green channel” to facilitate rare earth metal exports to the European Union after Beijing restricted their overseas sales. Since April, Beijing has been requiring licenses for exports of these…
Indonesia and the European Union are expected to conclude talks on an economic cooperation agreement that would ease trade barriers this month, Jakarta’s top economy minister said on Saturday. Southeast Asia’s largest economy and the 27-nation European bloc have been…
RIGA – Latvia’s municipal elections on Saturday revealed growing political fragmentation as no clear winner emerged in the capital. Latvia is a small country with a population of about 1.87 million. Riga has a population of about 600,000, about a…
Mark Boris Andrijanic is the former Minister of Digital Transformation of Slovenia. Anne Mettler is the former Director-General of the European Commission. They have decades of experience in European technology and innovation policy. Imagine autonomous drones striking enemy targets on…
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PRAGUE – Czech Justice Minister Pavel Blažek (ODS, ECR) has resigned following a scandal involving a €40 million “donation” of bitcoins from a convicted drug dealer. Blažek claims he acted legally but resigned to limit damage to the government. The…
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has called on Ursula von der Leyen to do more to stop Israel’s “illegal invasion” of Gaza, a day after the European Commission president called Israel’s wider war “abhorrent”. “One year after recognizing Palestine as…