Giorgia Meloni and Pedro Sanchez will be the main important leaders of the European Union (and beyond) to be present at the climate conference in Baku. The two could take advantage of the many absences at the summit taking place in Azerbaijan to play a leading role in the most important conference dedicated to climate change. Cop29 will be an ...
Next, the Europa Today newsletter that every Sunday morning tells you what will happen in the coming European week, edited by Alfonso Bianchi (for comments, suggestions or criticisms write to [email protected]). Top of the agenda Fitto’s exam – Next week it will be the executive vice presidents’ turn to pass the hurdle of parliamentary hearings. On Tuesday 12 November morning ...
Germans snub jobs within the institutions of the European Union and prefer to remain in their country of origin where they would find apparently more favorable economic conditions. The consequence is that when it comes to the number of officials, the nation is well below the guidance rate set by the European Union. Those who are far too present in ...
Italy continues to push to revise the European Union’s plan to switch to electric cars from 2035, as the region’s auto industry struggles with the transition. Together with the Czech Republic, our country has produced a document in which it asks Brussels to recognize a “wider range” of solutions beyond battery electric vehicles and hydrogen cars. According to a draft ...
Giorgia Meloni seems intent on demonstrating that she can be a reliable (perhaps even indispensable) partner for the new European Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen. After having abstained in the European Council on the nomination of the German, and after the Brothers of Italy even voted against the confidence in the European Parliament, now things seem to have ...
European Union leaders are trying to send the first strong signal of support to Ukraine after the US presidential elections. They do so in the context of the European Summit of Heads of Government of the European Union taking place in Budapest on 8 November, announcing the extension of the mandate of the European Union Military Assistance Mission in Support ...
Olivier Varhelyi did not get the green light from MEPs during the hearing in the Brussels Parliament. The candidate for the role of Hungarian commissioner will now have to submit to further written questions from parliamentarians which he will have to answer by Monday. So far he is the only one of the sixteen commissioners examined not to have obtained ...
After Donald Trump’s overwhelming victory in the US elections, from Ursula von der Leyen to Emmanuel Macron in Europe there was a unanimous chorus of congratulations and invitations for collaboration towards the republican. But the reality is that in the old continent everyone (or almost everyone) was rooting for Kamala Harris, aware of the fact that a return of the ...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has received the green light from Parliament to extend the possibility of ruling by decree for another six months. The decision was justified by the extension of the state of emergency due to the war in Ukraine, extended until May 2025. The decision will certainly not be well received in Brussels, where the excessive centralization ...
Estonia has decided to reduce the rights of Russian citizens who have been living on its territory for years. The country plans to revoke their and Belarusians’ right to vote in local elections, a measure aimed at countering what the government sees as the risk of pro-Kremlin influence. About a quarter of the Baltic nation’s population, which amounts to a ...