Migrant boat row deepens as France slams ‘not serious’ Johnson
The row between the UK and France over boats carrying migrants in the Channel escalated on Friday (26 November) after France withdrew an invitation to Home Secretary Priti Patel to…
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Surveillance plane to be deployed over Channel to monitor migrants
The EU’s border agency is to deploy a plane 24-hours-a-day over the Channel coast to monitor migrant crossings, France announced Sunday (28 November) after pushing its European partners for help…
Italian official: Paris-Rome deal eyes a sovereign EU
The Capitals brings you the latest news from across Europe, through on-the-ground reporting by EURACTIV’s media network. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. Editor’s take: Croatia has a problem.…
Robert Habeck: Germany’s new super minister on the block
Berlin has a new strongman: the Greens’ co-chief and future vice chancellor Robert Habeck, whose pragmatism and track record in Schleswig-Holstein looks tailor-made to drive Germany’s renewable energy expansion. As…
CoFoE panels call for environmental education and migrant rights
Environmental education in EU schools and the migration crisis were high on the agenda of proposals suggested by citizens in the last two panels of the Conference on the Future…
Democracy expert: CoFoE at risk of being PR exercise
The Conference for the Future of Europe is well underway. Still, concerns have been raised from the get-go that citizens’ proposals might not be taken seriously or implemented fully by…
Lack of commitment from EU countries curbs equality efforts across the bloc
European anti-discrimination strategies risk being “empty policies” unless national governments step up their game, civil society representatives have warned. Last year, the EU hastened efforts for the equality of European…
EU Parliament sets out two-year diversity roadmap
This article is part of our special report (Anti)-discrimination in Europe: Where next?. The European Parliament’s leadership adopted on Monday (29 November) a two-year ‘roadmap’ through which it hopes to…
France to offer Johnson EU deal on migrants
France’s Prime Minister Jean Castex is preparing to write to British counterpart Boris Johnson with proposals for a new post-Brexit deal on migration with the EU after the disaster in…
EU ministers adopt recommendations for blended learning in response to pandemic
In response to the coronavirus pandemic, EU education ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday (29 November) adopted recommendations on blended learning approaches that combine school site and other physical environments…