The majority that should support Ursula von der Leyen’s Commission is already falling apart. If she was ever born. Yes, because ever since the vote of confidence in the German People’s Party last July, the coalition that should support her over the next five years has proven to be more precarious than ever. Now the ongoing clash over the hearings ...
The Netherlands and Norway are the last two countries in the Schengen area to have announced their intention to reintroduce border controls. The Dutch controls, which will start from 9 December, will last six months and were decided within the crackdown against irregular immigration proposed by the government led by Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV), Europe’s ally with Matteo’s ...
First the decision to delay it, then the decision to stuff it with changes to make it less effective. The law against deforestation, which was approved by the European Parliament in the previous legislature, continues to come under attack. Designed to protect the forests of territories outside the European Union, such as the Amazon, the regulation impacts industries and importers ...
The Netherlands has decided to close its borders to stop the influx of migrants. From December 9th, Dutch cross-border police will begin carrying out additional and tighter controls at the borders with Germany and Belgium. This was announced by Immigration Minister Marjolein Faber. The minister did not go into detail about how the additional controls work, but said that the ...
The war in Ukraine will only end when Russia withdraws its troops as it did in Afghanistan in 1989, and if energy prices are higher now because of the conflict, we must accept this as a lesser sacrifice to make. This is, in short, the answer given by the future High Representative for Foreign Policy of the EU, Kaja Kallas, ...
Relations between the great world powers promise to be more heated than ever in the coming years, with the United States on one side and the European Union on the other, who have decided to rely on the hawks for their foreign policy. It was easy to imagine that Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential elections would shake up ...
Europe’s largest economy is plunged into political uncertainty: Last week German Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired Finance Minister Christian Lindner of the Free Democratic Party, breaking up the governing coalition – which united the SPD, liberals and greens – in a dispute on the money to be allocated for military support to Ukraine. Today the leaders of the Social Democratic Party ...
No more money will come from Donald Trump’s United States for Ukraine, and if the European Union wants to continue to economically support Kiev’s war effort, it will have to prepare to do it alone. It’s the warning that comes from Steve Bannon, the former strategist of Trump’s 2016 victory who leads the media arm of the Make America Great ...
The Polish Donald Tusk is positioning himself at the head of the European effort to continue support for Volodymyr Zelensky’s Ukraine in view of the beginning of the era of the other Donald, the American Trump. The Warsaw prime minister has announced that in the coming days he will hold a series of meetings with the leaders of France, the ...
There is no peace in the Greek left of Syriza, increasingly in chaos after the end of the leadership of Alexis Tsipras, the leader who managed to bring the party to government, but who was then punished by the voters who preferred the popular Kyriakos Mītsotakīs. Now the party, which was once seen as an example for all of Europe’s ...