The Five Star Movement’s move to join the radical left group, The Left, is already bearing its first fruits. For the first time, the Five Star Movement will have the presidency of a parliamentary commission, a subcommittee to be precise, the one for fiscal issues, but it is still a prestigious position. The role will be held by the delegation ...
MEPs have elected their chairs and vice-chairs of the 20 standing committees and four sub-committees. Not all vice-chairs were appointed today (Tuesday 23 July), with some committees completing the election of their bureaus soon. But up to now there are 14 Italians who have held an important position, with the representatives of Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy who, at least ...
“Italy is Italy”. Nicola Procaccini, Giorgia Meloni’s point man in the European Parliament, has no doubts: despite the large delegation of Fratelli d’Italia in Brussels having decided, after a long hesitation, not to vote for Ursula von der Leyen for a second term as president of the EU Commission, our country will not suffer any repercussions and will obtain a ...
A true “paradise” for extracting lithium. Serbia is a land rich in this precious mineral and has just signed an important agreement with the European Union for its extraction. The project, which has been the subject of bitter protests in the Balkan country, serves to ensure the European automotive industry an indispensable resource for the transition from combustion engines to ...
The majority that supported the reconfirmation of Ursula von der Leyen, which was based on the support of the Greens “is artificial and will not hold up”, with the populars who first criticized the Green Deal, then allowed the ecologists to become “the swing vote”. And instead the EPP should understand that if it wants to create a European center-right ...
Despite its “pro-EU and progressive appearances”, the new Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen “will be a centre-right/centre-right Commission, perhaps the first ever. It will be culturally and politically more in tune with Giorgia Meloni’s ECR and Viktor Orban’s Patriots than with the Greens”. This is what Alberto Alemanno, professor of Community Law at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes ...
Emmanuel Macron’s first low blow to the French left has been struck. The ring is that of the National Assembly, the prize up for grabs was the election of the president of the National Assembly. Despite the electoral flop (around 20%, but only thanks to the system of the republican ‘retreat’), the French president obtained the re-election of Yaël Braun-Pivet, ...
On Thursday, in his keynote speech to the European Parliament, he promised to step up EU support for Palestine, condemning “the bloodshed in Gaza.” Just 24 hours later, the promise was kept: the European Commission and the Palestinian National Authority signed a letter of intent on short-term emergency financial support of €400 million in grants and loans, to be disbursed ...
The vote of confidence for a second term for Ursula von der Leyen as President of the Commission creates factions within the majority between the League and Forza Italia. Vice President Antonio Tajani, speaking at the “Anuman2024” event, stressed that in the election of the vice-presidents of the European Parliament, the two candidates of the Conservatives and Reformists, the group ...
The assignment of the role of envoy for the Southern Front of NATO to Spain “I consider it almost a personal affront, a deep disappointment”. This is the comment of the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto, who explained that he wrote to the Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg “a very harsh message”. “It made me furious and there will be consequences ...