The collaboration between the Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen continues. Last night, the two leaders had a telephone interview focused on “issues of common interest”, including support for Ukraine and the dossier of duties, as part of the negotiations between the EU and the Trump administration, as reported by a ...
Next, the European newsletter Today that every Sunday morning tells you what will happen in the European week to come, edited by Alfonso Bianchi (for comments, suggestions or criticisms write to [email protected]). Another very quiet week in Brussels with the institutions of the European Union which, also in view of the workers’ party on Thursday 1st May, have reduced their ...
Manfred Weber will still be at the head of the European Popolar Party. The German, outgoing president and leader of the group to the European Parliament, is the only candidate for the guidance of political formation that brings together the European democratic forces and which is also part of Forza Italia. Despite the controversies for the turn to the right ...
Despite the tensions with the United States led by Donald Trump, Belgium will buy US F-35 hunting again, excluding the French Rafale once again. However, planes could be built in Italy. This is the compromise achieved by the Brussels government, which in this way continues to carry on military dependence on the USA, at least on a technological level, but ...
Spain has torn a contract for the purchase of weapons from an Israeli company. The Madrid government has decided to unilaterally terminate a 6.6 million euro contract for the supply of 15 million bullets, after the negotiations between the socialists of the PSOE and the allies of Sumar in the progressive executive. The contract had been formalized on April 16 ...
The European Commission “is looking at the possibilities” to organize a meeting in Rome between President Ursula von der Leyen and the President of the United States Donald Trump, given that they will both be in the capital next Saturday for the funeral of Pope Francis. “We are evaluating the possibility of meeting us. At the moment there is nothing ...
The commercial war launched by Donald Trump is determining, as an inevitable consequence, the approach of the European Union to China. A first step, in this sense, could be the revocation of the sanctions issued by Beijing against several members of the European Parliament in 2021. Beijing’s attempt to approach Brussels after the Trump duties war Why revoke sanctions now? ...
The mode chosen by Ursula von der Leyen, to make her Rearm Europe plan approve faster, then renamed READINESS 2030, is illegal. It is the opinion of the legal services of the European Parliament, they pronounced against the choice of the president of the European Commission, to resort to the emergency procedure to approve the common loan tool of 150 ...
Ukraine is ready to negotiate but not to surrender. This is the message that Kiev wanted to send while in the media begin to emerge the details of an American proposal for an agreement between Russia and Ukraine who would see Kiev gives almost the entire territory currently occupied by Moscow. “There will be no agreement that gives Russia the ...
Spain no longer wants to be the last of the class in NATO. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has announced that the country will achieve the goal of spending 2 percent of the gross diflance product for the defense already this year, long before the previous deadline of 2029 that the nation had imposed itself. Spain, who in 2024 spent only ...