The elimination of abuse of office and the reduction of statute of limitations jeopardize the fight against corruption while the reform on defamation endangers freedom of the press. The European Union has been more than one scolding for the reforms implemented by Giorgia Meloni’s government. In its annual report on the rule of law in Europe, the EU executive repeatedly ...
The picture of the rule of law in Europe has remained relatively similar to last year, with Viktor Orbán’s Hungary continuing to be at the bottom of the list in terms of corruption, media freedom and government capture of the state apparatus. Poland, after the years in which the far-right allied with Giorgia Meloni was in power, has recovered a ...
Agriculture, Budget and Petitions. These are the three presidencies (out of 20) obtained by Giorgia Meloni’s Reformists and Conservatives group in the European Parliament committees. Even if Fratelli d’Italia did not place any of its elected representatives in the highest office, it did win a slew of vice-presidencies. The spokesman for Fratelli d’Italia in Brussels, Nicola Procaccini, celebrated the day ...
You can’t spy indiscriminately in the name of national security. This is not a truism, but the content of a European Commission document awaiting publication. According to Brussels, national security has been used as an excuse by some EU governments, who have used spyware to collect information from phones and other devices owned by lawyers, journalists and opposition politicians. A ...
In Brussels, Syria has returned to the forefront of European political debate. Italy and seven other member states have suggested reviewing the European strategy towards the country governed by Bashar al-Assad and a staunch ally of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. The aim is to promote a more pragmatic approach that takes into account the central issue of refugees. “We have raised ...
The rift is over. The European Union foreign ministers have decided to take an important summit away from Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, the country that is leading the so-called European semester. The proposal put forward by the European Union’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, received the consensus of the foreign ministers of the 27 member states on July 22. The decision is ...
Roberto Vannacci, MEP elected on the Lega list, is still the vice-president of the newly formed sovereignist group Patriots for Europe in the EU Parliament. In the declaration of constitution of the political groups attached to the minutes of the Strasbourg plenary session of last Friday, July 19, consulted by Adnkronos, the general is in fact listed as one of ...
Politician, activist and prominent figure of the Lgbt+ community. And now also vice-president of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Rights. Alessandro Zan, elected in the recent European elections among the ranks of the Democratic Party for a seat in Strasbourg, obtains a prestigious position in his first mandate. Born in Padua in 1973, Zan has carved out a prominent ...
Ukraine has blocked Russian oil supplies to Viktor Orban’s Hungary and Robert Fico’s Slovakia, Vladimir Putin’s two main allies in the European Union. Kiev has sanctioned the Russian company Lukoil, which supplies Budapest and Bratislava through the Druzhba pipeline, the main artery for transporting oil from the federation and Kazakhstan to Europe through Ukraine. Now Hungary and Slovakia have asked ...
The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Delivery Hero and Glovo violated EU competition rules by participating in a cartel in the online ordering and delivery of food and groceries, as well as other everyday consumer goods in the European Economic Area (EEA). The European Union executive recalled that Delivery Hero and Glovo are two ...