Anger has exploded in Georgia following Prime Minister Irakli Kobajidze’s decision to suspend negotiations for accession to the European Union “until the end of 2028”. Thousands of protesters took to the streets in various cities across the nation, but especially in the capital Tbilisi, where tension skyrocketed with bins and other objects set on fire, and with the police responding ...
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobajidze has announced that his government has decided to suspend “until the end of 2028” negotiations for accession to the European Union, a procedure that Brussels has already suppressed “de facto” last summer in following the approval of the ‘Russian’ law against foreign-influenced NGOs. “We have decided not to put the issue of opening negotiations with ...
Sudden popularity on TikTok could deliver Romania into the hands of the ultranationalist Călin Georgescu. For this reason, both in the country and in Brussels, investigations have been opened to better understand the role of social media in the sudden success of the politician, until recently a total unknown to the Romanian population, as well as to the country’s political ...
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 ...