In the Risk of positions of power in the European Commission, Giorgia Meloni’s Italy was left empty-handed. Our country obtained the vice-presidency with Raffaele Fitto, but our country was left with crumbs in the other key roles at Palazzo Berlaymont. When a new executive takes office, the teams of officials who will help the commissioners in their work, their cabinets, ...
Tension is very high in Georgia, where for days there have been heated demonstrations and clashes between police and citizens protesting against the decision of the government led by the pro-Russian Georgian Dream party to suspend accession negotiations “until the end of 2028”. to the European Union. The center of Tbilisi looks like a war zone with bins and other ...
In the end, the European People’s Party’s coup on the deforestation law only served to create friction between the political groups during the period of the commissioners’ hearings, but from a legislative point of view it proved to be a stalemate. The European Parliament and the EU Council have reached an agreement in trilogue (the forum in which negotiations between ...
A new crackdown on the study by the European Commission could put Asian e-commerce giants such as Temu and Shein in difficulty who, with their products, flood the European market, largely evading customs controls. To curb the increase in online sales, Brussels is considering preparing a tax to slow the wave of goods sold on sites that evade customs duties ...
The guillotine of the National Assembly could soon fall on Michel Barnier. France would find itself without a prime minister, as well as a budget law for 2025, with French President Emmanuel Macron unable to call elections before July next year. If it’s not chaos, we’re close. What should condemn the man selected just three months ago to lead the ...
The outgoing European Commissioner for Justice, Belgian Didier Reynders, has been questioned by police and his house has been searched as part of an investigation into suspected money laundering. The investigation, placed under the authority of the Brussels Prosecutor, was opened in 2023 by the Brussels Prosecutor’s Office, but was kept confidential until Reynders finished his role in the first ...
No fraud committed during the first round of the presidential elections in Romania. The Romanian Constitutional Court confirmed this after recounting the ballots. The recount was decided due to accusations launched by Christian Terhes, a candidate who withdrew early from the elections, who claimed that his votes had been illicitly transferred to the pro-Russian Calin Georgescu, who then came to ...
Europe must increase defense spending because the target of two percent of GDP is no longer enough. And it is no longer enough, especially now that the United States will return under the leadership of Donald Trump, with the Republican having already warned that he does not intend to be part of a NATO in which not everyone does their ...
The fight against cigarettes is still a success. After Milan’s decision to extend the ban on smoking in the streets, the three anti-smoking points this time come from the European Union. With the aim of creating a “tobacco-free generation” by 2040, EU countries have extended protection against passive smoking, including play areas and outdoor areas of restaurants, such as dehors, ...
Saving the European automotive industry is at the heart of Ursula von der Leyen’s new mandate as leader of the European Union. After the rigorous bans dictated by the vision of the Green Deal, oriented towards reducing emissions, Brussels seems to be moving towards a change of direction. At the center of the debate is the ban on the registration ...