EUROPEAN POLITICS
Libyan Interior Minister Emad Trabelsi was arrested in Paris on Friday (3 March), the media Libya Review reported. Trabelsi was arrested at Charles de Gaulle airport “carrying a large sum of cash”. He was released after several hours. #BREAKING@LibyaReview sources…
Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė believes that Europe should develop its security system without Russia. “Sometimes there are voices saying that it will still be necessary to somehow develop a security system together with Russia. In my view, such thinking…
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) has launched an investigation into a contract about the upgrade of the signalling system on Greek trains and remote control. If functional, this equipment could have prevented Tuesday’s (28 February) train crash which killed…
Poland must quickly change its forest management laws as the EU Court of Justice ruled on Thursday that it violates the EU animal and bird settlement directive and prevented environmental organisations from questioning the government’s afforestation plans. In its Thursday…
Parliament will decide on Finland and Sweden’s NATO accession on 20 March instead of 6 March, delaying accession for another two weeks, according to the new session schedule adopted on Thursday. Hungary and Turkey are the only two NATO member…
Following Serbian President Aleksander Vucic’s apparent backtrack on plans to sign the EU-brokered proposal to normalise relations between Serbia and Belgrade, Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti spoke of his disappointment to parliament on Thursday while the EU remains positive. During…
Royal Navy ship HMS Lancaster seized weapons from a vessel travelling south from Iran while completing a routine security patrol after a US fixed-wing Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platform detected a suspected smuggling vessel. ISR detected the vessel travelling…
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Wednesday (1 March) that a “tragic human error” was probably responsible for a train collision that left at least 38 dead in the country’s worst rail tragedy. Two carriages were crushed and a third…
Germany will make humanitarian, and development aid more targeted towards the needs of minorities and women, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Wednesday. Baerbock (Greens) and her colleague, Economic Cooperation And Development Minister Svenja Schulze (SPD/S&D), unveiled a concept to…
Italy says no to the EU regulation banning internal combustion vehicles by 2035 unless the EU Commission revises its position and proposes environmentally and economically sustainable alternatives. After the Environment and Energy Security Ministry announced Italy’s negative vote on the…
A corruption scandal in the Canary Islands involving Socialist Party members, local businessmen, and former members of the military police has rocked the Spanish political arena three months before key regional and municipal elections. The so-called ‘Mediador case’ (caso Mediador)…
Sweden will review ways to increase voluntary return migration, Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard announced on Wednesday, which the opposition considers yet another illustration of the far-right’s influence on the Swedish government. In a new demonstration of Sweden’s more rigid…