The new European Commission will be the “competitiveness” Commission, which will carry forward the Green Deal but smooth out its edges to meet the needs of the market and businesses. And it will be a Commission that will “work at the centre”, excluding extremists. This is the heart of the programmatic speech delivered by President Ursula von der Leyen at ...
Ursula von der Leyen has completed her triumph and also obtained the confidence of her new Commission, despite the controversies and divisions of recent weeks. But out of the 720 members of the European Parliament, only 370 supported her, 31 votes less than those she obtained for her personal investiture in July, and the lowest number in history. There were ...
Bad news for Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris. His Fine Gael party, which is part of the popular family in Europe and was expected to win this week’s elections, is in free fall in the polls and risks finishing in third position. Instead, the main nationalist and left-wing opposition party, Sinn Fein, is now growing and at 20 percent of ...
The earthquake that shook the Greek Syriza party from within for months is fading. The figure of Sokrátis Fámellos, the new designated leader of the party, is attributed with the arduous task of rebuilding from the rubble a party which, after a long period of internal struggles and debates, finds its compactness and stability undermined. What brings together consensus is ...
The Romanian reformist forces are teaming up around the centre-right candidate Elena Lasconi to prevent the exponent of the radical right Calin Georgescu from winning the presidential elections. The Liberals, now in government with the Social Democratic Party (PSD), have expressly instructed their voters to support the “pro-European option” while the Social Democrats have not yet expressed their opinion. However, ...
The Italian Bruna Szego, in all likelihood, will lead the European Union Authority for the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism (Amla). Two commissions of the European Parliament have provided a positive opinion for his candidacy and now the European Commission will have to present a formal proposal to the full European Chamber and then to the ...
The predictions don’t smile on him but they aren’t always the favorites to win the games that count. Or at least this is what the leaders of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) hope for, having reconfirmed their support for the candidacy of Olaf Scholz in the race for the elections for the Federal Chancellery. After the withdrawal on Thursday ...
Bad news for Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris. His Fine Gael party, which is part of the popular family in Europe and was expected to win this week’s elections, is in free fall in the polls and risks finishing in third position. Instead, the main nationalist and left-wing opposition party, Sinn Fein, is now growing and at 20 percent of ...
Sweden wants to see clearly the case of the Chinese ship suspected of having cut two underwater fiber optic communications cables in the Baltic Sea last 17 and 18 November. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson wants to continue the investigation into the vessel flying the flag of the People’s Republic, which is now anchored off the coast of Denmark, where ...
A vote against France’s budget policy could drag the entire eurozone into a serious economic crisis. The ghost that many experts evoke is that of Greece about ten years ago, which caused serious shocks in the old continent. At the moment everything depends on Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French far right determined to reject the budget proposed ...