EUROPEAN POLITICS
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský will stay in the government despite a reshuffle that saw his party, the Czech Pirate Party, pull out of the ruling coalition. Lipavský, who has been a member of the Pirate Party (Greens/EFA) for nine…
Greek leftist politicians have reacted strongly to France’s Jordan Bardella, leader of the far-right Patriots for Europe group’s participation in an event in Athens to discuss democracy in the EU. Bardella, the head of France’s far-right National Rally and President…
Michel Barnier set out a series of policy priorities spanning spending cuts, immigration, health and more in a wide-ranging speech on Tuesday (1 October), with nudges and nods to Brussels that France was back under control. Barnier’s ‘discours de politique…
Chairs of the European Parliament’s committees grappled for control of hearings for the next crop of EU commissioners on Tuesday (1 October) while agreeing to propose two alternative timetables for the scrutiny hearings. Leaders of the European Parliament’s political groups…
In her first term, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen coined the term ‘Union of Equality’, introducing the principle of intersectionality as a policy guideline at the European level for the first time. Now, in her second term, she…
The trial of far-right leader Marine Le Pen and 26 other senior members of the National Front, accused of using fake jobs to embezzle EU funds from the European Parliament, began in a packed courtroom on Monday, with a sea…
EU ministers criticised an underemphasis on Ukraine in Hungary’s agenda for its presidency of the bloc, at a meeting in Brussels on Tuesday (24th September). “Ukraine is unacceptably sidelined in the agenda,” said Dace Melbārde, Latvia’s parliamentary secretary for foreign…
Partido Popular leader Alberto Nùnez Feijòo met the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome and praised her migration policy, which focuses on stopping boats leaving Tunisia and Libya and setting up asylum application processing centres in Albania. Feijòo met…
Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares on Thursday strongly denied that Madrid had forced Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia to sign a document recognising the victory of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in the recent elections, as a leading member…
As all main EU political parties have placed Ukraine and defence at the fore of their EU elections campaign, the EU liberals chief and campaign leader, Valérie Hayer, visited Kyiv on Tuesday (26 March) to show support and announce her…
The European Commission issued guidelines on Tuesday (26 March) under the Digital Services Act, outlining measures to mitigate against risks that could impact election integrity digitally. The European Parliament elections are approaching in June, and ten European countries are gearing…
Michael Roth, head of the German Bundestag’s Foreign Affairs Committee and one of Ukraine’s most vocal supporters, has announced his departure from politics due to differences within his own party. Roth, a member of the German Social Democrats (SPD/S&D) and…