EUROPEAN POLITICS
The Greek coast guard illegally pushed back asylum seekers, abandoning them in an inflatable life raft at the edge of their territorial waters, the New York Times revealed on Friday (19 May), providing videos where a coast guard boat, partially…
Next year’s G7 summit, set to take place in Italy, will focus greatly on the south of the world, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said at the recent G7 summit in Japan on Sunday. Following the G7 summit, where Meloni…
The Italian government has pledged to reform the school system as young people are not acquiring the skills needed by Italian companies, making hiring even more difficult. There is a a “dramatic mismatch” between labour supply and demand, which has…
The data Romanian authorities sent to a delegation of the European Parliament’s Petitions Committee that visited several Romanian counties last week to view the impact of illegal deforestation on the ground were contradictory, members of the delegation have said. The…
Seven Albanian candidates have announced their run for mayoral positions in Greek elections as the situation with the ethnic-Greek winner of the local elections in Himare, Albania, who remains behind bars due to allegations of vote-buying, remains unresolved. Seven of…
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist Party PSOE has denounced before the Central Electoral Board electoral dynamic ads installed last Friday in Madrid’s “Sol” underground station, where Sánchez is depicted as a rich man travelling in his official jet while Madrid’s…
Should the opposition Labour party win the next UK election, it would take the country back into the EU’s Dublin Agreement, which regulates how countries decide on asylum applications, as part of a series of moves to bring the UK…
It is a truism that a political movement debating its reasons for existing knows it’s in trouble. It’s no surprise that the National Conservatism conference held in London this week coincided with the fourteenth year of a Tory government that…
Spain violated current MEP and former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont’s political rights – and those of his constituents – by stripping him of his regional parliamentary seat, the UN Human Rights Committee ruled on Thursday. The Committee concludes that the…
The EU and UK are set to move towards closer ties on financial services regulation after the European Commission on Wednesday (17 May) adopted a draft Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the sector. An MoU was initially agreed in March…
Austrian EU Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn has announced his retirement after over a decade in Brussels, with the potential successor being Austrian EU Minister Karoline Edtstadler. Hahn, the longest-serving member of the EU Commission, has reportedly announced his retirement. He…
A €3 million tender for research services related to the implementation of the EU’s tobacco control policy which aims to create a ‘tobacco-free generation’ was granted to the European Network for Smoking Prevention (ENSP) – the only tender bid –…