Two centers for migrants, approximately 1,200 places in total and 600 million euros that Italy will spend over five years to make them work. The structures resulting from the memorandum of understanding between Italy and Albania with which the government led by Giorgia Meloni intends to prevent irregular migratory flows are ready, welcoming only those who have the right to ...
The MEPs have established the calendar of hearings of the commissioners designated for Ursula von der Leyen’s new college. The candidates’ ‘exams’ will be held from Monday 4th to Tuesday 12th November. It starts with the Slovakian Maros Sefcovic and the Maltese Glen Micaleff at 2.30pm on 4 November and ends with the vice-presidents in pectore Teresa Ribera and Henna ...
Despite Western sanctions imposed following the invasion of Ukraine, Russia is continuing to sell its oil almost undisturbed. And it is doing so thanks to a ‘ghost fleet’, a fleet that escapes the radar of international authorities, thus allowing it to circumvent the blockades set up after the invasion of Ukraine. The sanctions Before Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in ...
Clothes burned, cell phones and passports confiscated, beatings and sexual assaults. The victims of this violence are asylum seekers who try to enter the European Union, but are rejected by the Croatian police. This is the picture that emerges from an investigation published by the British newspaper The Guardian. The victims are migrants mainly from South Asia, the Middle East, ...
A European budget with many more irregularities in expenditure, of which a huge amount can be attributed to Italy. A situation aggravated by the increasingly indebted EU finances, especially due to the growing expenses aimed at financing Ukraine. This is the situation that emerges from the report of the EU Court of Auditors published on 10 October. The judges recalled ...
A quick tour in Europe. It is the one organized by the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to convince Ukraine’s allies to support the country at war with Russia with more funding. Among the heads of government he will meet is also the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Joining her on the agenda are the leaders of Great Britain, France and ...
The long-awaited speech by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Strasbourg was supposed to be an opportunity to outline some priorities of the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It turned into a spectacle, during which the Fidesz leader removed several pebbles from his shoes. In the face of a storm of critical interventions, the Hungarian Prime ...
Strong and ‘idiotic’ leader, staunchly Trumpian and a bit of a ‘victim’ of the European conspiracy, very determined on some objectives, in particular on the issue of migration. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán turned his presence in Strasbourg into a big show. Most MEPs harshly criticized him, even creating parallel appointments at the European Parliament plenary to denounce the democratic ...
The Romanian Constitutional Court twice rejected the presidential candidacy of far-right MEP Diana Șoșoacă in just a few days. The politician, known for her NoVax position, ended up in the international spotlight after interrupting the plenary session of the European Parliament last July by shouting and brandishing an image of the holy face of Jesus, together with a garbage bag. ...
Luigi Di Maio claimed that Mario Draghi would be the “milestone” of his political journey, but said he “blessed” the stinging defeat in the 2022 elections with the Civic Commitment list, a defeat that led him to abandon politics . The former leader of the 5 Star Movement, currently the EU’s special representative for the Persian Gulf, returned to speak ...