Seventy-five million Europeans are victims of serious crime every year. One in three women has suffered physical or sexual violence and 78 percent of victims of intimate partner violence are women. Yet only 14 percent of them report the most serious episodes. An alarming picture that shows the need for more incisive, more accessible and victim-focused protection measures. This is ...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has proposed Ukraine’s candidacy as an “associate member” of the European Union, with a letter addressed to the major EU institutions. This is a status that does not currently exist and which would be created specifically for Ukraine. In short, it would allow the country to participate in meetings of the European Union, but without the ...
The case of the violence against the activists of the Global sumud flotilla could end up on the agenda of the next meeting of the foreign ministers of the European Union and cause sanctions to be imposed on the Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir, the protagonist of the abuses as documented by video material. It is Antonio Tajani, head of ...
The European Parliament and the EU Council reached a political agreement overnight on the implementation of the trade agreement on tariffs concluded in July between the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and US President Donald Trump. The compromise, negotiated under the Cypriot Presidency of the Council, concerns the European Commission’s proposal to eliminate EU tariffs on ...
The European Parliament and the EU Council have reached an agreement on legislation aimed at abolishing import duties on US products, a key element of the trade agreement concluded with Donald Trump last July, in a move that should avoid the introduction of higher tariffs by the United States on EU products. Based on the agreement reached last July in ...
Agreement reached and US-made retaliation avoided. The European Union has given the green light to the implementation of the tariff agreement signed last summer with the United States. The EU’s yes came after months of pressure from President Donald Trump, who had threatened to impose new tariffs – in particular duties on European cars and trucks of 15 to 25% ...
Forests cover approximately 160 million hectares in the European Union, equivalent to 39 percent of the total area. In contrast to the rest of the world, where forest cover is decreasing, in the EU the forest area has grown by over 5 percent in the last thirty years, with six countries (Sweden, Spain, Finland, France, Italy and Germany) containing over ...
Next, the newsletter of Europa Today which every Monday morning tells you what will happen in the European week Top of the agenda The state of the European economy – The publication of the 2026 spring economic forecast by the European Commission is expected on Thursday 21 May. “As usual, the forecasts will cover a wide range of economic indicators ...
The European Parliament will meet in plenary in Strasbourg next week, but two trilogues will catalyze attention and provoke the greatest clash between the groups in the Chamber: the one on the trade agreement with the United States and the one on the repatriation directive. Use and tariffs The first will be held on the 19th, with Europe finding itself ...
Crosetto is pushing to spend the 14.9 billion euros of the European armaments fund. The Minister of Defense said he had urged his colleague in the Ministry of Economy, Giancarlo Giorgetti, to make a final decision regarding Italy’s access to the European Union Safe. Speaking on the sidelines of the launch of a digital platform for defense partners, Crosetto declared ...