EUROPEAN POLITICS
Student activists have occupied university lecture halls in Vienna, Salzburg, and Innsbruck amid rising discontent with the government’s handling of the climate crisis, the education system, and social injustice. Student protests – particularly the occupation of universities – are common…
The conditionality procedure was conceived as a preventive tool to protect the financial interests of the EU but if it is turned into a political sanctioning mechanism, the whole exercise will become a collective failure, writes Judit Varga. Judit Varga…
A gang of criminals who regularly transport migrants from Tunisia to Italy were intercepted by Italian authorities as they were leaving Sicily. Their alleged plan was to travel from Sicily to Tunisia to pick up a ‘cargo’ of migrants to…
Albanians form the third largest diaspora in the world, with some 30% of those born in the country now living outside its borders, according to data published by Forbes, as a tense situation between Albania, Europe, and the UK continues…
The works currently carried out at the Doel 3 reactor scheduled for decommissioning can continue, ruled the Brussels Court of First Instance. In accordance with the 2003 Belgian law on nuclear phase-out, the Doel 3 nuclear reactor was shut down…
Chaos caused by former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s short-lived mini-budget featuring £40 billion worth of tax cuts and spending increases has damaged the UK’s reputation, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey told MPs on Wednesday, with new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt expected…
A mixed team of experts from the European Commission and member states, including the Netherlands, will visit Romania to clarify any issues regarding the country’s implementation of the Schengen acquis, the government said on Wednesday. The European Commission has again…
Hungary has reached an agreement with the EU on reforms to strengthen judicial independence demanded by Brussels in order to unlock billions in Covid recovery funds, an EU source said Thursday (10 November). Hungary — led by the right-wing prime…
Energy giant Uniper will not build any power plants in Sweden, the company that will be wholly owned by the German state from next year announced Thursday, flouting plans of its Swedish subsidiary Barsebäck Kraft to build a Clean Energy…
The Spanish government will not modify the structure of the future taxes on large energy companies and banks despite the European Central Bank (ECB) warning this could distort EU competition. Spain’s progressive government of PSOE and Unidas Podemos has decided…
Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti could be set to meet Serbian President Aleksander Vucic in Paris on Thursday amid simmering tensions and various plans which all seek to normalise relations and give crucial progress to the situation between the two…
Dear readers, Welcome to EU Politics Decoded where Benjamin Fox and Eleonora Vasques bring you a round-up of the latest political news in Europe and beyond every Thursday. In this edition, we look at the never-ending issue of migration and how Europe is dealing (or…