Even a cat can be a refugee, a climate refugee to be precise, and be forced to leave their country to escape the damage caused by Climate Change. This is the case of the protagonist of Flow, one of the five finalists for the European Parliament’s Lux film prize. The nominations were announced at a press conference in Strasbourg by ...
After weeks of waiting and speculation, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has finally announced the composition of the new European Commission, which will lead the community executive for the next five years. Faced with numerous economic and security challenges, the Commission’s number one has chosen to entrust the most delicate tasks to commissioners from Spain, France and Slovakia, for ...
From neighbourhood and enlargement policy to Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare. This is the path of Olivér Varhelyi, confirmed by Ursula von der Leyen in her team during the plenary session in Strasbourg. After the difficult period of Covid and the difficult post-pandemic restart, one could have expected a politician with more weight for the arduous task of ensuring ...
Roberto Vannacci “has been suspended from his duties as vice-president of the group of European patriots”. This was stated to reporters by the head of the Lepenist delegation Jean-Paul Garraud, questioned at the end of a press conference organized by the far-right European political group. The case of the possible suspension of Vannacci dates back to before the summer when ...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presented the new members of her Commission on September 17 in Strasbourg. This institution is the most decisive in the European Union: among its responsibilities, that of proposing new community laws, blocking mergers between companies and signing free trade agreements. Each EU member state has obtained a seat in the stable that will ...
The role of European Commissioner for Agriculture goes to Christophe Hansen from Luxembourg. The official nomination came on September 17, along with those of the other members of the team of the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. Hansen’s name had been circulating for some time in the corridors of Brussels, during the plenary session in Strasbourg ...
In the end, Ursula von der Leyen went ahead and satisfied Giorgia Meloni. Raffaele Fitto will be one of the six vice-presidents of the European Commission and will have the portfolio of Cohesion and Reforms. It is not exactly the important economic portfolio that the Italian Prime Minister hoped for, but it is still a weighty position, given that the ...
The controversy over the Open Arms trial continues, with the Palermo Prosecutor’s Office requesting six years of imprisonment for Matteo Salvini. The former Interior Minister of the yellow-red government is accused of having prevented the landing, for days, of the ship of the Spanish NGO “Open Arms” with 147 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean on board. The events date back ...
The European Union is increasingly concerned about the state of freedom of expression in the Slovak media. The government led by Prime Minister Robert Fico has proposed a reform of the public media aimed at centralizing and increasing state control of the media. The proposal has sparked protests from the press and civil society. In the meantime, the director of ...
The new French candidate for a Commission post is the Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Affairs, Stéphane Séjourné. A few hours after the surprise resignation of the head of Industry and the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, who left in a dispute with President Ursula von der Leyen, accusing her of having plotted behind his back to have his name ...