Record low polls and disbandments among centre-liberal party Ciudadanos, which has eight of nine seats in Renew Europe group’s Spanish delegation, may lead the party to disappear from the group after next year’s EU elections. Ciudadanos, which was Spain’s third…
Italian parties are divided over the European Parliament’s recent condemnation of anti-LGBTIQ rhetoric in Italy which raises concerns over similarities to existing sentiments in Hungary and Poland. On Thursday, the EU Parliament approved an amendment condemning the spread of “anti-rights,…
Opposition MP and former defence minister Tomasz Siemoniak criticised Culture and National Heritage Minister Piotr Gliński for handing German President Frank Walter Steinmeier a report on war damages Germany caused during World War II. Steinmeier visited Warsaw Wednesday to participate…
He’s looking at your medical records — but who else is? (Photo: National Cancer Institute) In May 2022, the European Commission proposed the European Health Data Space (EHDS) in an attempt to improve the ways in which people’s sensitive medical…
A Russian vessel spotted in Belgian territorial waters in November has caused concern it was a Russian intelligence-gathering ship similar to one also seen in Dutch territorial waters, attempting to sail under the radar. The vessel is believed to have…
German President Frank Walter Steinmeier asked for forgiveness of German crimes committed during World War II as he commemorated the 80th anniversary of the ghetto uprising alongside the presidents of Poland and Israel in Warsaw on Wednesday. On 19 April…
The Spitzenkandidat concept – which gives the winning group in the EU elections a chance to propose their lead candidate as European Commission president – is quietly fading away, with even its initial backers becoming gradually less vocal about the…
The Belgian government is currently discussing whether to raise the abortion limit from 12 to 18 weeks in a move that has divided political parties, including within the governing coalition. A bill from the Socialist Party (PS, S&D) co-signed by…
MEPs rejected a report on the EU budget guidelines for 2024, following the adoption of an amendment by the right-wing European People’s Party (EPP) and European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) groups that would have introduced EU funds to build walls…
Belgian authorities on Tuesday filed an official request to transfer Olivier Vandecasteele, the Belgian aid worker who has been detained for over a year in Evin prison in Iran, back to his home country. Last year, Belgium negotiated a prisoner…
The European Parliament decided against introducing mandatory registration of meetings between interest groups and MEPs on Wednesday (19 April) in a move criticised by pro-transparency campaigners. MEPs voted on Wednesday on reforms of the Parliament’s internal rules of procedures, which…
French Senate has urged EU institutions and countries to gather evidence of the forcible transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia and sanction Russian officials involved in these crimes, Senator André Gattolin told EURACTIV France on Wednesday (19 April). Gattolin spoke…