The United States and the European Union have decided to hit Paul Kagame’s Rwanda for supporting the M23 rebels, who triggered a war in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, causing thousands of deaths. “More than 7 thousand compatriots” since January, many of which civilians have been killed, the premier of the RDC, Judith Suminwa Tuluka, told ...
The leaders of the two European nuclear powers arrive at the White House to push President Donald Trump not to treat only with the Russian leader Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine. French president Emmanuel Macron and British premier Keir Starmer are coming to the White House with the aim of claiming a central role for them and ...
The European Union has decided to suspend a large part of the sanctions imposed against Syria of Bashar al Assad, to support the country now led by Ahmed Al-Sharaa (also known by the name of war Abu Mohammad al-Julani) in the reconstruction effort after the civil war. In particular, Brussels suspended the sectoral measures concerning energy (including oil, gas and ...
The European Union celebrated the third anniversary of Ukraine’s invasion by approving a new package of sanctions against Russia, the sixteenth from the beginning of the conflict. “We have to support Ukraine now more than ever,” said the head of European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, upon arrival at the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, who approved the decision. The package of ...
Three things we know after the elections in Germany The elections in Germany were very expected, and did not betray the expectations. The repercussions on the European Union and ultimately on all of us are evident, so much was the command void that Berlin had somehow revealed in recent months. The political data to underline are essentially three. Record turnout ...
At 69, Friedrich Merz, leader of the Democratic Christian Party (CDU), is ready to become Germany’s next chancellor after the victory of his deployment in the legislative elections. Although his victory does not represent an absolute triumph, with the lowest result for the CDU since the end of the Merkel presidency, Merz has promised to face internal and external challenges ...
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]). At the top of the agenda Clean industry – Wednesday 26 the Commission will present the Clean Industrial Deal, a sort of son of the Green Deal, a ...
For the United States of Donald Trump, the defense of Europe is no longer a “priority”, and therefore now the countries of the old continent will have to defend themselves. A goal on which several governments, starting from the French one, have been insisting for years, but which will not be easy to achieve. To defend Europe without the support ...
Three years after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the office of the European Parliament in Italy, in collaboration with the Embassy of Estonia and that of Ukraine, organizes an event entitled “Europe alongside Ukraine: Defending freedom and democracy “to discuss the role of the European Union in the defense of the democratic regime, security and international law. The event will ...
To the European Parliament “Too often, in institutional events the majority of experts invited as speakers are men”. The MEP of the 5 Star Movement, Carolina Morace, a complaint that in the Community Assembly there would be almost a habit of ‘Mansplaining’, defining the thing a “malpractice”, which in his opinion “does not arise from the lack of experts, but ...