EUROPEAN POLITICS
While consultancy expenditure rose significantly in the last years, the French Audit Office (Cour des Comptes) warned against the still incomplete regulatory framework governing the use of consultancy firms, which are sometimes used under vague conditions. Consulting firms are sometimes…
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) started investigating the complications of diet drugs known as Ozempic and Saxenda on Monday after the Icelandic Medicines Agency said these appetite-reducing drugs could be linked to suicidal thoughts. The EMA investigation into drugs like…
The debate on nuclear deterrence needs reopening while reliance on allies is key, German MP Thomas Silbehorn (CSU, EPP) told EURACTIV.cz in an interview. According to Silberhorn, only the United States or an alliance of liberal democracies led by the…
While the EU Commission’s request for member states to contribute an additional €65.8 billion as a revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework was ignored by German Finance Minister Christian Lindner, discussions are not over, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s office said on…
The European People’s Party (EPP) is already in the middle of its election campaign and is not stopping at targeting development policy, said leading MEP Udo Bullmann, in an interview with EURACTIV, adding that “basic ideological blockades” are being drawn…
Austrian Energy Minister Leonore Gewessler called on domestic suppliers to speed up the process of decoupling from Russian gas at a meeting with energy companies on Monday. At the meeting with energy companies, Gewessler discussed gas supply diversification plans as,…
The sale of sexual services, which unlike the purchase of such services is legal in Sweden, is to be taxed like any other service, the Swedish Tax Agency said in a statement on Monday. In Sweden, it is legal to…
Conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis won Greece’s national elections on Sunday (25 June) with a clear majority, securing a second term during which he vowed to bring about major reforms to transform the country. With nearly all the votes counted, Mitsotakis’s…
Interior and Overseas Territories Minister Gérald Darmanin said the number of incoming migrants has dropped by two-thirds, and violence has been reduced, according to his initial assessment of recent measures in Mayotte, the French archipelago in the Indian Ocean. The…
Participatory budgeting – the democratic tool allowing citizens to decide how to spend a part of the municipal budget – has not yet been implemented in Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece. Yet, its inhabitants would be open to…
Albania has improved measures for tackling money laundering and terrorist financing but there is still work to be done, according to the Council of Europe’s MONEYVAL follow up report, published on Wednesday. The EU candidate country has been on the…
Opposition to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government is faltering as members of the Democratic Party (S&D) are now increasingly divided on issues like the war in Ukraine, while current Party Secretary Elly Schlein has resorted to ambiguous statements to avoid ruffling any…