Viktor Orban’s long-awaited speech at the European Parliament in Brussels will be postponed. The Hungarian prime minister announced that he has cancelled all his international engagements following the terrible floods that have hit the country. “Due to the extreme weather conditions and the ongoing floods in Hungary, I have postponed all my international engagements,” Orban wrote on X. The prime ...
If you want to sell more electric cars in Brazil, you have to let us raise cows on deforested land. It sounds brutal, but the message sent by the Brazilian government to the European Union would be this in summary. The Latin American country, together with Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, has been negotiating for over two decades with Brussels to ...
Eight migrants lost their lives last night in a shipwreck while trying to cross the English Channel from France to England. The ship sank in an overloaded clandestine boat that had just set sail from the French coast: on board there were about 59 people, from Eritrea, Sudan, Afghanistan and Egypt. The dinghy on which the migrants were aboard capsized ...
Luxembourg is looking for workers. A request that is tempting for many Italians looking for a job or a better salary. Because the average salary in the Grand Duchy is 73,418 euros per year, more than double that of Italy. If we consider the 12 months of salary, the average salary in the smallest European country is 6,118 euros per ...
The European regulation to combat deforestation in the world has come under fire from several European chancelleries, including the very influential German one, which are asking the European Commission to delay its entry into force. The measure called Eudr (Regulation on Deforestation-free products), which aims to prevent the entry into our markets of products that derive from the excessive exploitation ...
The difficult management of migratory flows seems to have become a problem more for the Northern European states than for the Mediterranean ones. Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom are trying to implement emergency measures to better control the phenomenon and satisfy an increasingly worried citizenry whose votes are moving ever more to the right. And so Berlin closes ...
A parliamentary assistant was fired after reporting the MEP he worked for, accusing him of fraud and harassment. The European Parliament was ordered to pay compensation for failing to comply with its own rules on whistleblower protection. The European Court of Justice criticised the European Parliament for disclosing the whistleblower’s status without authorisation, thus exposing him to the high possibility, ...
The European Commission has rejected offers from some Chinese electric car manufacturers to offset the benefits of government subsidies and thus avoid the blow of European duties. The dialogue between China and the European Union to avoid a trade war remains open. What are the Chinese proposals considered “insufficient” by the EU? Today, Brussels judged the “price undertaking” proposal to ...
The headaches and worries continue for Ursula von der Leyen, struggling with the creation of her European team. Everything was supposed to be ready by September 11, but the President of the Commission has postponed the presentation of the possible commissioners to September 17, during the plenary session in Strasbourg. At the top of the problems is the nomination of ...
The travel expenses that MEP Ryszard Czarnecki presented to the European Parliament during his 20 years of service at the institution amount to a total of 203 thousand euros. According to the report presented by the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, many of these trips were made on vehicles with invented license plates or registered to people who claimed to have ...