EUROPEAN POLITICS
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…
The lead researcher of a widely circulated survey on EU media influence has told Euractiv that the US PR firm that commissioned the study misinterpreted some of its findings. The comments raise questions about the integrity of the EU Media…
THE FOURTH ESTATE For a professional class that prides itself on “holding power to account” and pursuing the truth “without fear or favor,” journalists are surprisingly susceptible to flattery. If you want to win over a tough investigative journalist, tell…
VILNIUS – Germany has opened its first permanent foreign military presence in Lithuania since World War II, with Chancellor Friedrich Merz calling it “the beginning of a new era.” At the foot of Gediminas Hill, overlooking Vilnius’s old town, where…
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PARIS – French movie mogul Gerard Depardieu was found guilty Tuesday of sexually assaulting two women while filming “Green Waves.” A Paris court sentenced the 76-year-old actor to 18 months’ suspended jail and added him to the sex offenders’ registry.…
WARSAW – The Vatican has elected its first American pope, Leo XIV, just as Poland, one of Europe’s most devoutly Catholic countries, enters the final stages of a presidential race dominated by religion and tensions between church and state. In…