Germany’s border crackdown fuels EU divide on migration policy
More and more EU member states are moving away from the notion of a united EU front on migration, opting for individual solutions instead. Germany’s recent decision to ramp up…
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The Brief – The curious case of Denmark’s migration opt-out
The Netherlands and Hungary are unlikely to get an opt-out from the EU’s migration policy, rarely has it ever happened, when Denmark got theirs, they got lucky – and France…
Spain’s PP leader praises Meloni’s migration strategy
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…
Spain denies coercing Venezuelan opposition leader as diplomatic row deepens
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…
Commission to soon reply to member states’ request to postpone budget plan
The European Commission will soon respond to the request of 20
Portuguese farmers have ‘high hopes’ in new agri commissioner
The Portuguese Farmers’ Confederation (CAP) has high expectations of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s choice for the new agriculture commissioner, Christophe Hansen, and is confident that he will…
Von der Leyen pledges billions of euros for flood-stricken regions
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has pledged EU-funded aid to help repair the damage caused by recent floods as she visited the western Polish city of Wroclaw on…
Berlin is sceptical of EU migration policy, but warms to Europe-wide Albania model
Germany remains critical of further EU-level measures to steer irregular migration amid a unilateral crackdown at its borders but may be open to a European initiative to conduct asylum procedures…
Bulgaria’s Borissov calls for North Macedonia’s deputy PM to resign
Boyko Borissov, leader of Bulgaria’s largest party, GERB, on Thursday called for the resignation of Macedonian Deputy Prime Minister and Transport Minister Alexander Nikoloski over his comments about Bulgarian President…
Murder of transgender influencer shocks Georgia
A famous Georgian transgender woman was stabbed to death in her apartment on Wednesday (19 September), authorities said, in a “premeditated” attack amid criticism of a government crackdown on LGBTQ…