Italy is heading to parliamentary elections on 25 September. EURACTIV tries to guide through the current political dynamics, the electoral rules and most likely scenarios in one of Europe’s most complicated countries. Source: euractiv.com
In January 1990, McDonald’s opened its first restaurant in Moscow’s Pushkin Square after spending years overcoming Soviet bureaucracy and the country’s business, agricultural, and marketing shortcomings. The McDonald’s presence in Russia eventually grew into a chain of 847 outlets and…
Participatory budgeting is the process that allows citizens to decide how to spend part of the city’s budget and is quite well-known to most of the residents of Wrocław, Poland. EURACTIV travelled the south-west of the country to learn more…
Bulgarian politician Sergey Stanishev has announced that he will not run for a fourth term as leader of the Party of European Socialists when the party elects its president at a congress in Berlin on 14-15 October. Speaking in Sofia…
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Set-piece speeches are the political equivalent of eating a packet of biscuits in one sitting: It feels good at the time, but you feel hungry and bloated an hour later. Ursula von der Leyen’s Wednesday State of the Union speech…
‘This is what the alt-right Mitsotakis government has brought Greece to: competing with Poland on the agenda of committees investigating democratic aberrations’ (Photo: European Union 2022 – Source : EP) At the beginning of August, the news broke: a political…
In many European countries the annual energy bill is now more than a month's wages for low-paid workers (Photo: stuartpilbrow) This Friday (9th September) the EU energy ministers will meet again to try to rein in soaring energy prices. Almost…
The European Parliament together with the permanent representatives of Czechia, Sweden, Spain, Belgium and France agreed to approve the Pact on Migration and Asylum by February 2024, to ensure that the legislation is adopted before the next European elections in…
Liz Truss has become the new UK prime minister after the Conservative leadership contest to replace Boris Johnson confirmed her as his successor on Monday (5 September), against the backdrop of growing political and economic problems. The former foreign secretary…
An estimated 70,000 people protested in Prague against the Czech government on Saturday (3 September), calling on the ruling coalition to do more to control soaring energy prices and voicing opposition to the European Union and NATO. Organisers of the…
Ignalina nuclear power station in Lithuania (Photo: Wikipedia) Last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) raised grave concerns after Ukraine and Russia had blamed each other for renewed shelling of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzya. IAEA director…