It seemed destined to remain on the fringes of French politics until 2027, but Marine Le Pen has silently reclaimed the scepter of France in her own way. This was clear when the great enigma of the French summer was solved on September 5. At the head of the transalpine government comes a man with long experience and who enjoys ...
The Five Star Movement’s decision to join the radical left The Left continues to pay the price. Valentina Palmisano from Puglia has been appointed coordinator of the group in the Regional Development Committee of the European Parliament. “The Regi Commission is one of the most important and delicate because it works to reduce disparities between the levels of development of ...
Volodymyr Zelensky once again asks for more weapons from his allies and to be able to use them to attack Russia, and has announced a surprise trip to Italy to participate in the Ambrosetti Forum and meet with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni with whom he will have “negotiations”. The Ukrainian president participated for the first time in person in the ...
What’s Wrong with the Cordon Sanitaire Against the Far Right September 1, 2024 is a sadly historic date for Europe. Björn Höcke, a German politician with openly Hitlerian sympathies, has dragged the Alternative for Germany party to first place in Thuringia, a small state-region in East Germany. In numerical terms, a marginal result, yet one with an impact from a ...
The European Union has signed the first legally binding international treaty on Artificial Intelligence. This is a convention promoted by the Council of Europe, to which the United States and the United Kingdom, among others, have also adhered. The Convention provides a common approach to ensure that AI systems are compatible with human rights, democracy and the rule of law, ...
In the end, Emmanuel Macron decided to force the issue and appointed a member of the People’s Party as prime minister: former minister and former European Commissioner Michel Barnier. The choice infuriated the left-wing Popular Front, winner of the election, which called it a “stolen election”. The French president appointed the 73-year-old conservative 60 days after legislative elections that resulted ...
Still no announcement from French President Emmanuel Macron regarding the appointment of a prime minister. A wait that has lasted more than 50 days and that is unnerving not only the transalpine political world but all of France. The post-election Rubik’s cube seems to have no solution and Macron now also risks impeachment proceedings initiated by La France Insoumise, which ...
Italy’s road to an executive vice-presidency of the European Commission, much sought after and requested by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, is uphill. Although in Brussels it now seems certain that Palazzo Chigi’s candidate, the Minister of European Affairs Raffaele Fitto, is in pole position for the role (and with a heavy economic portfolio), in the European Parliament not everyone seems ...
More carrot than stick, more money than controls. This is what the representatives of the European Union’s agri-food sector are asking of Brussels. Their wishes are summarized in a strategic document presented on September 4 and delivered directly into the hands of the President of the Commission Ursula von der Leyen. After the violent protests of farmers based on manure ...
The new Commission is set to be dominated (once again) by men, despite President Ursula von der Leyen’s attempt to achieve parity or at least some balance. A letter from the German People’s Party sent to all governments this summer asked them to submit two candidates, one man and one woman, but in the end most capitals ignored the request ...