Despite its “pro-EU and progressive appearances”, the new Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen “will be a centre-right/centre-right Commission, perhaps the first ever. It will be culturally and politically more in tune with Giorgia Meloni’s ECR and Viktor Orban’s Patriots than with the Greens”. This is what Alberto Alemanno, professor of Community Law at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes ...
Emmanuel Macron’s first low blow to the French left has been struck. The ring is that of the National Assembly, the prize up for grabs was the election of the president of the National Assembly. Despite the electoral flop (around 20%, but only thanks to the system of the republican ‘retreat’), the French president obtained the re-election of Yaël Braun-Pivet, ...
On Thursday, in his keynote speech to the European Parliament, he promised to step up EU support for Palestine, condemning “the bloodshed in Gaza.” Just 24 hours later, the promise was kept: the European Commission and the Palestinian National Authority signed a letter of intent on short-term emergency financial support of €400 million in grants and loans, to be disbursed ...
The vote of confidence for a second term for Ursula von der Leyen as President of the Commission creates factions within the majority between the League and Forza Italia. Vice President Antonio Tajani, speaking at the “Anuman2024” event, stressed that in the election of the vice-presidents of the European Parliament, the two candidates of the Conservatives and Reformists, the group ...
The assignment of the role of envoy for the Southern Front of NATO to Spain “I consider it almost a personal affront, a deep disappointment”. This is the comment of the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto, who explained that he wrote to the Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg “a very harsh message”. “It made me furious and there will be consequences ...
Increasingly tense relations between the European Union and President Viktor Orbán’s Hungary. The latest decision, not yet confirmed, that could exacerbate diplomatic hostilities is the proposal by High Commissioner for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell to boycott the next informal summit scheduled in Budapest. The meeting, known as Gymnich, was organized for the end of August, but the head of EU ...
The far right wants to get its hands on culture in Brussels. And the interest is not insignificant, given that this area also includes delicate decisions on freedom of the press and media independence. The group “Patriots of Europe”, founded in this legislature by Hungarian President Viktor Orban and led by Frenchman Jordan Bardella of the Rassemblement National, has aimed ...