A reform that would have helped reduce the number of members of the German parliament has been rejected. The supreme court in Karlsruhe ruled on the morning of July 30 on the legality of a plan that would have helped reduce the number of seats for elected officials in Germany and at the same time would have blocked smaller regional ...
The atmosphere is not good for gender equality in Europe these days. With the elections last June, the European Parliament went back ten years in terms of female representatives, and the appointments to the Commission do not show an encouraging trend either. This despite the fact that several of the institutions’ top positions are held by women representatives. Of the ...
Olive oil, the pillar of the Mediterranean diet, in addition to being increasingly expensive, is becoming the protagonist of frequent food frauds. Diluted with other oils, altered by pesticides or sold with fake labels. The phenomenon is varied, but tells us a clear trend: the liquid gold of the Mediterranean, which is scarce with climate change but is increasingly in ...
New sabotage in France. This time, the telephone network has been attacked in six departments. The acts of vandalism come after the serious attack that disrupted the high-speed rail lines across the Alps a few hours before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris. It is not yet clear whether the two episodes are connected. For the train ...
Warsaw wants to make it easier for its border guards to use weapons to push back migrants. Poland has long been battling the growing flows on its border with Belarus, where it has built a 186-kilometer fence, and accuses Alexander Lukashenko’s government of using immigrants as a form of hybrid weapon. With the election of a new government led by ...
French startup Gourmey has announced that it has submitted an application to European Union regulators for authorization for its cultured foie gras. This is the first application to sell cultured meat in the EU bloc. The French company has also submitted applications for marketing authorization in Singapore, the United States, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Italy banned both the production ...
Ursula von der Leyen has sent a letter to the 27 governments of the member states asking them to send her the names of the candidates for the next College as soon as possible. The deadline for the member states to forward the chosen profiles to the European Commission is August 30: by that date, those who do not confirm ...
Fredi Beleris, the New Democracy MEP elected to the last European elections while in prison, remains in prison. An Albanian court has not authorized the release of Beleris, rejecting the appeal of the Greek mayor of the Albanian city of Himare. The politician, who ended up in prison for a corruption case, is the only MEP who was in prison ...
Challenge in the Mediterranean between Italy and Cyprus. After the confirmation of the “Ursula 2.0” majority, the Totocommissari has entered the heart of the matter. Rome aims to obtain one of the top roles alongside the President of the Commission Ursula von der Leyen. Despite the official vote against by the MEPs of Fratelli d’Italia expressed in Strasbourg on the ...
In Italy he is best known for the bill that bears his name and which aimed to increase penalties for hate crimes motivated by homophobia. And now that he has been elected to the European Parliament, Alessandro Zan promises to continue his battles for the expansion of civil rights in Italy. “In our country the situation has been at a ...