Fredi Beleris, the New Democracy MEP elected to the last European elections while in prison, remains in prison. An Albanian court has not authorized the release of Beleris, rejecting the appeal of the Greek mayor of the Albanian city of Himare. The politician, who ended up in prison for a corruption case, is the only MEP who was in prison ...
Challenge in the Mediterranean between Italy and Cyprus. After the confirmation of the “Ursula 2.0” majority, the Totocommissari has entered the heart of the matter. Rome aims to obtain one of the top roles alongside the President of the Commission Ursula von der Leyen. Despite the official vote against by the MEPs of Fratelli d’Italia expressed in Strasbourg on the ...
In Italy he is best known for the bill that bears his name and which aimed to increase penalties for hate crimes motivated by homophobia. And now that he has been elected to the European Parliament, Alessandro Zan promises to continue his battles for the expansion of civil rights in Italy. “In our country the situation has been at a ...
There is no way around it: France will not have a new government until at least mid-August. President Emmanuel Macron was categorical, confirming that the outgoing executive will take charge of managing the Paris Olympics, which are scheduled to begin on July 26. The announcement by the head of state, who effectively kicks the ball into the stands, has provoked ...
With the election of the secretariats of the parliamentary committees, the preparatory phase of the tenth European legislature has officially ended. The political groups are formed, the office of the presidency has been elected and, now that there are also (almost all) the top positions of the committees, the Eurochamber can begin its work. In September, however, after the summer ...
Vladimir Putin is “spreading lies” about the strength of the Russian economy, whose health is in doubt, according to a group of finance ministers from eight EU member states. Harsh sanctions imposed by the Western bloc (primarily the United States and the European Union) after the invasion of Ukraine are, in their view, deteriorating Moscow’s economic blockade. Government officials say ...
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 ...