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 ...
The European Council which meets today, and probably also tomorrow, in Brussels is dedicated to a question defined as existential for the Union: deciding whether or not to expropriate the Russian assets frozen with the sanctions triggered after the conflict launched by Moscow, to transform them into loans with which to finance Ukraine in the next two years. The 27 ...
Goodbye to historic and secular neutrality. The fear of a war between Russia and the countries that fall under the NATO umbrella is also pushing Switzerland into an arms race. National defense strategy revised prematurely Bern made a historic decision on 12 December, reversing the foreign policy approach that the Swiss country has observed since 1815. The international context, characterized ...
British university students will be able to return to the Erasmus programme. And their European colleagues (including Italians) will be able to return to study in the United Kingdom. The university exchange program was abandoned by the island after Brexit, when then Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the program did not offer good value for money. The Labor government agreed ...
Traditional vehicles may not completely disappear from manufacturers’ lists. The European Commission presented today, 16 December, a package of measures for the automotive sector which effectively cancels the total ban on the sale of cars with combustion engines from 2035. According to the Commission, the aim is to define “an ambitious but pragmatic policy framework to ensure climate neutrality and ...
The chamber of the European Parliament voted today, 16 December, in favor of revoking the immunity of the MEP of the Democratic Party – and member of the S&D in the European Chamber – Alessandra Moretti. His name appears in the judicial papers in the context of Qatargate, the investigation into the alleged corruption by countries such as Qatar and ...
Next, the newsletter of Europa Today which every Monday morning tells you what will happen in the European week Top of the agenda A (perhaps) decisive summit – All eyes are on the European Council which will open on Thursday 18th December and will almost certainly last all of Friday 19th (it would be the first time of a two-day ...
With 25 votes in favor and two against, the countries of the European Union have adopted the formal decision to make the freeze on Russian assets permanent, the “frozen” assets worth over 200 billion euros. But the road to their use in the reconstruction of Ukraine is still long. Coreper – the meeting of the permanent representatives, i.e. the ambassadors, ...
Ahead of the next plenary session of the European Parliament, which will be held from 15 to 18 December in Strasbourg, MEPs from the different political groups present their priorities. They will be there – Brando BenifeiDemocratic Party (S&D) – Paolo BorchiaLeague (Patriots for Europe) – Francesco TorselliFdI (Ecr) – Leoluca OrlandoVerdi/Avs (Greens) – Pasquale TridicoM5S (The Left) Follow the ...