EUROPEAN POLITICS
Denmark’s parliament will allow the use of minority languages, Greenlandic and Faroese, spoken in the Kingdom of Denmark, but those who wish to speak in their native tongue will have to translate their speeches into Danish themselves, the parliament announced…
The Italian government has launched the National Platform for Sustainable Nuclear Power, which will lead within nine months to developing guidelines for possibly reintroducing nuclear power among national energy sources. Thursday (21 September) saw the first meeting of the National…
The Czech Republic will continue to prioritise supporting Ukraine against Russian aggression by helping it finance its weapons despite its obvious difficulties in consolidating its public finances. Already, for the last increase in contributions in June, the Czech Republic could…
Legal action against Slovakia, including before the World Trade Organisation and a ban on imports of Slovak agricultural products into Ukraine, will be dropped after online negotiations in which both countries agreed to set up a grain trading system based…
Respecting the UN Charter is not a choice but an obligation, and its disregard, particularly in the case of Serbia, is a precursor to the problems the world is facing today, Serbia’s Aleksandar Vučić spoke told the 78th session of…
MEPs Ciarán Cuffe and Grace O’Sullivan will run again in the 2024 elections with a focus on social justice and improving the environment, the candidates told Euractiv on Monday. Cuffe and O’Sullivan were elected to the Parliament for the first…
Greece’s main opposition force, Syriza, must remain united after the internal elections on Sunday (24 September) to be able to “take down” conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, an official of the EU Left told Euractiv amid growing internal tensions in…
Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu and his Ukrainian counterpart, Denys Shmyhal, held discussions on Saturday and Sunday to resolve their grain dilemma after the EU Commission’s decision on Friday not to extend the restrictions on grain exports from Ukraine to…
French President Emmanuel Macron will meet UK opposition chief Keir Starmer Tuesday (19 September), a chance for both men to strike up a political relationship with the Labour Party increasingly confident it can take over from Britain’s ruling Conservatives. The…
If Serbia does not want to join the EU and prefers instead to nurture its relationship with Russia, the EU should not force it, said MEP and rapporteur to European Parliament for Kosovo, Viola von Cramon, in an interview with…
The EU’s Special Envoy to Kosovo-Serbia dialogue has been accused of being biased in favour of Serbia, according to Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti, who has sent letters to the leaders of Italy, Germany, France, and the US regarding the…
The EU Parliament has revised its Rules of Procedure to strengthen its integrity and transparency after the recent Qatargate corruption scandal, but Czech MEP Alexander Vondra warns that the new rules will make the work of the decent and honest…