The European Commission has lodged a complaint against China with the World Trade Organization (WTO) with the aim of eliminating trade practices it deems “unfair and illegal” in the field of intellectual property. A move that China said it “deplores”, ensuring that it “strictly adheres” to WTO rules. Brussels accuses Beijing of exerting “pressure” on European high-tech companies to lower ...
Next, the Europa Today newsletter that every Sunday morning tells you what will happen in the coming European week, edited by Alfonso Bianchi (for comments, suggestions or criticisms write to [email protected]). Top of the agenda The new Trump era begins – The eyes of the world are all focused on Washington where Donald Trump’s investiture ceremony will take place on ...
Bulgaria has finally managed to form a new government, with the Sofia Parliament giving its confidence to a coalition executive led by the Gerb People’s Party. The hope is to put an end to the longest political crisis in the history of the Balkan country since the end of Soviet communism. Political instability Bulgaria has faced seven elections in four ...
Chinese entrepreneurs could get their hands on German car companies slated for closure. This is the indiscretion relaunched by Reuters, according to which Chinese officials and car manufacturers are particularly interested in the sites of Volkswagen, the European automotive giant which is facing a period of difficulty due to declining sales and growing competition with Chinese manufacturers. According to sources ...
More than a month after the elections in Ireland, an agreement has been reached for the formation of a new government. The two historic centre-right parties will once again lead the executive: Fianna Fail and Fine Gael. According to the pact, Micheal Martin, the leader of Fianna Fail, who came first in the elections, will be the first to hold ...
Air raid sirens and explosions were heard in Kiev during the visit of the Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto and the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. According to reports, the explosions occurred no more than 7-800 meters from where Crosetto was at the time, having flown to the Ukrainian capital for an official mission in which he was supposed to ...
An election flyer from the far-right party AfD (the party supported by billionaire Elon Musk) has appeared in the letterboxes of the inhabitants of Karlsruhe, a city in south-west Germany, which is causing a lot of discussion. Citizens with a foreign surname and a history of migration behind them were given a fake plane ticket with the destination “safe country”, ...
Former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki was elected president of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) party, taking the place vacated by Giorgia Meloni. Carlo Fidanza of Fratelli d’Italia, the French MEP Marion Marechal and the leader of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians, George Simion, were elected vice-presidents. Procaccini was also elected president of the New Direction foundation, ...
Luigi Di Maio will still be the European Union’s special envoy to the Persian Gulf and will hold this position until 28 February 2027. The request to confirm the former Italian Foreign Minister, in the role with a golden salary of around 15 thousand euros per month, came from the same EU High Representative, Kaja Kallas, and accepted 27 member ...
After weeks of absence Ursula von der Leyen is about to return to the command posts of the European Commission. The president was hospitalized for severe pneumonia which forced her to abandon her commitments, an absence which sparked quite a bit of controversy due to the lack of transparency towards the press regarding what was happening . The missions “The ...