What pushed Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to grant the green light to the Mercosur agreement was an economic promise made by the European Union. After months of doubts, Palazzo Chigi seems to want to embrace the project dear to Ursula Von der Leyen (and disliked by Emmanuel Macron’s France). The signal of détente came after the President of the European ...
A vessel suspected of damaging an undersea telecommunications cable connecting Helsinki to Tallinn in the Gulf of Finland has been seized by Finnish police. The vessel, according to the authorities, was “responsible for damage to the cable” owned by the national telecommunications group Elisa, which is located in Estonia’s exclusive economic zone. The Fitburg classified as a “vessel of interest” ...
Poland prepares for possible war scenarios. In fact, the proximity to Ukraine fuels fears of an extension of the war with Russia. Warsaw therefore does not want to be found unprepared for an escalation of the conflict and is already adopting measures to guarantee the protection of the population from the Kremlin’s bombings. Mandatory air raid shelters in Poland The ...
The Eurozone will have a new tenant. Bulgaria will adopt the euro from tomorrow, 1 January 2026, definitively saying goodbye to the old lev. For supporters of the transition to the single currency it is a decisive move to support the country – which is the poorest in the Union, which it joined in 2007 – to support the economy ...
Blue cheeses, milk, cream and mozzarella: there is not a European dairy product excluded from the list of the new round of duties, which China imposes on one of the economic engines of Europe, including Italy. And for the Commission it is a cold shower, which risks seeing a crucial sector for the economy of the Old Continent on its ...
Greenland becomes a national security issue for the United States. With this in mind, the head of the White House has appointed Jeff Landry, the current governor of Louisiana, as “special envoy of the United States to Greenland”, the autonomous territory of Denmark that the American president has long said he wants to acquire. Trump appoints Louisiana governor as Greenland ...
After launching the Coalition of the Willing in support of Kiev, Emmanuel Macron gets straight to the point. He knows that it is necessary to speak directly with Vladimir Putin to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. Macron: “It is useful to talk to Putin again” The head of the Elysée, like many European leaders, played an observer ...
Europe has decided: it will support Kiev for 2026 and 2027 with a 90 billion loan, through common debt and not with the use of Russian assets (which remain blocked). The decision came at the end of a long meeting of the European Council, one of the most difficult in recent months. Not only that. It was also decided to ...
The European Central Bank decided today, 18 December, to keep the three reference interest rates unchanged: 2 percent on deposits, 2.15 percent on main refinancing and 2.40 percent on marginal loans. It is the fourth consecutive time that the Frankfurt-based banking institution has decided not to change rates since last June, after having reduced them by two percentage points with ...
NATO’s eastern front, bordering Russia, becomes the scene of incursions by Kremlin soldiers, showing all the vulnerability of the Alliance. The news has broken in the last few hours that three Russian soldiers in uniform have crossed the Estonian border, on the Narva river, near Vasknarva, effectively entering NATO territory. According to GeolInsider, quoted by the German Bild, the Russian ...