“Absurd”, “inhumane”, “too expensive”, “violates human rights”, “weakens national sovereignty”. These are some of the criticisms that have fallen on the Italy-Albania agreement from Strasbourg, where MEPs are gathered for the plenary of the European Parliament. The reactions come after the decision of the immigration section of the Rome court, which did not validate the detention of migrants inside the ...
Companies from countries that are not part of the European Union cannot participate in European public procurement if there is no international agreement signed with Brussels. This is the lapidary judgment that comes today from the European Court of Justice, after the case that exploded over the public procurement procedure relating to the construction of a railway network to connect ...
New aid destined for Ukraine from the European Union. This time the European Parliament has approved the 35 billion euro macro-financial assistance (AMF) plan which plans to use the frozen assets of the Russian central bank to lend them to Kiev. The majority was very large. Those who opposed it were above all the MEPs among the ranks of the ...
Visas to Russian defectors to allow them to stay in Europe. The decision, the first of its kind in the European Union, belongs to France. Human rights groups rejoice, hoping that other countries in the bloc will follow Paris’ example. According to them, it would be a way out for Russian soldiers who want to stop fighting in Ukraine, but ...
Counting at the photo finish in the elections in the Republic of Moldova. The pro-European and pro-Western president Maia Sandu is ahead in the first round of the presidential elections, while the referendum calling for membership of the European Union to be included in the constitution remains in the balance. Just like the former Soviet Socialist Republic, which cannot decide ...
The EU has warned North Korea that there will be a response if Pyongyang intervenes in Ukraine. The warning is contained in the conclusions that emerged at the end of the European Council summit on 17 October, during which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also spoke. The leader of Kiev denounced that, according to intelligence information, over 11 thousand North Korean ...
Volodymyr Zelensky spoke in Brussels during the European Council mentioning the threat of world war, the need for long-range missiles to hit Russian military sites and a possible return to nuclear power by Ukraine if the accession procedure is not accelerated to NATO. After presenting his “plan for victory” to the 27 leaders of the European Union, Zelensky reiterated the ...
The proposal to extend on a European scale what Italy has done with Albania, i.e. the creation of “hubs” or “disembarkation platforms” in third countries for the management of irregular migrants, divides EU member states. The initiative, led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, found the support of the Netherlands and Denmark, and the interest of at least eight other countries ...
A particular trial will begin shortly in France. The accusation is that of terrorism, but it will not be a group of extremists or a “lone wolf” who will end up on trial. Lafarge, a company that produces cement, now part of the Holcim group, will end up in the dock. To be precise, the company is accused because its ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky lands in Brussels to meet EU leaders and present his “plan for victory” against Vladimir Putin’s Russia. But in the background, above all, there is the continuation of the military and financial aid program to Kiev by the West The themes The President of the European Council Charles Michel announced that he had invited Zelensky to ...