EUROPEAN POLITICS
Fourteen candidates formally joined the race on Thursday (5 January) to become Cyprus’s next president in an election next month dominated by the island’s decades-old division, irregular migration and corruption scandals. Cyprus has a presidential system of government and the…
Albania launched its first two satellites, Albania 1 and Albania 2, into orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station this week, hoping they will aid a crackdown on drug cultivation and other crimes. The satellites were a part of the…
Green Vice-Chancellor and Climate Minister Robert Habeck launched a thinly-veiled attack on liberal FDP Transport Minister Volker Wissing after newly published data showed the country is not on track to meet its climate targets. Data published by the Berlin-based think…
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Hungary must avoid recession next year and curb inflation to single digits by the end of 2023, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Wednesday, adding that surging inflation put “huge pressure” on the central bank’s governor. Hungary’s nationalist leader is…
Newly re-elected Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in France on Tuesday after a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday amid Europe’s energy crisis. Tokayev arrived in France for a two-day visit to discuss…
A proposal to train Ukrainian soldiers in the Czech Republic and to deploy Czech soldiers in member states to train Ukrainian soldiers there was approved by Czech lawmakers on Tuesday. “The priority is to help train Ukrainian soldiers to fight…
Hungarian Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Péter Szijjártó defended his country’s continued block of formally convening the body responsible for developing the NATO-Ukraine relationship over minority rights row with Kyiv. NATO foreign ministers began a two-day meeting in Bucharest on…
Yesterday’s speech by German Economy Minister Robert Habeck gave the impression of an almost paradigmatic shift in German economic thinking. In response to Washington’s Inflation Reduction Act and surging energy prices, Habeck outlined an eight-point plan to save the EU…
Four months were not enough for the Hungarian parliament to vote on Sweden and Finland joining NATO. Although Viktor Orban’s government has shown it can move legislation quickly when it wants to, he announced last week that the vote will…
Universities need to stop actively recruiting international students, the House of Representatives said on Tuesday due to the strain it has on resources. According to the House of Representatives, the number of students coming in is now affecting the amount…
Over half of the Dutch public are not positive about EU enlargement in the Western Balkans, according to a new report which also lays bare a fundamental lack of knowledge on accession criteria. Many observers have classified the Netherlands as…