European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presented the new members of her Commission on September 17 in Strasbourg. This institution is the most decisive in the European Union: among its responsibilities, that of proposing new community laws, blocking mergers between companies and signing free trade agreements. Each EU member state has obtained a seat in the stable that will ...
The role of European Commissioner for Agriculture goes to Christophe Hansen from Luxembourg. The official nomination came on September 17, along with those of the other members of the team of the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. Hansen’s name had been circulating for some time in the corridors of Brussels, during the plenary session in Strasbourg ...
In the end, Ursula von der Leyen went ahead and satisfied Giorgia Meloni. Raffaele Fitto will be one of the six vice-presidents of the European Commission and will have the portfolio of Cohesion and Reforms. It is not exactly the important economic portfolio that the Italian Prime Minister hoped for, but it is still a weighty position, given that the ...
The controversy over the Open Arms trial continues, with the Palermo Prosecutor’s Office requesting six years of imprisonment for Matteo Salvini. The former Interior Minister of the yellow-red government is accused of having prevented the landing, for days, of the ship of the Spanish NGO “Open Arms” with 147 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean on board. The events date back ...
The European Union is increasingly concerned about the state of freedom of expression in the Slovak media. The government led by Prime Minister Robert Fico has proposed a reform of the public media aimed at centralizing and increasing state control of the media. The proposal has sparked protests from the press and civil society. In the meantime, the director of ...
The new French candidate for a Commission post is the Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Affairs, Stéphane Séjourné. A few hours after the surprise resignation of the head of Industry and the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, who left in a dispute with President Ursula von der Leyen, accusing her of having plotted behind his back to have his name ...
Viktor Orban’s long-awaited speech at the European Parliament in Brussels will be postponed. The Hungarian prime minister announced that he has cancelled all his international engagements following the terrible floods that have hit the country. “Due to the extreme weather conditions and the ongoing floods in Hungary, I have postponed all my international engagements,” Orban wrote on X. The prime ...
If you want to sell more electric cars in Brazil, you have to let us raise cows on deforested land. It sounds brutal, but the message sent by the Brazilian government to the European Union would be this in summary. The Latin American country, together with Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, has been negotiating for over two decades with Brussels to ...
Eight migrants lost their lives last night in a shipwreck while trying to cross the English Channel from France to England. The ship sank in an overloaded clandestine boat that had just set sail from the French coast: on board there were about 59 people, from Eritrea, Sudan, Afghanistan and Egypt. The dinghy on which the migrants were aboard capsized ...
Luxembourg is looking for workers. A request that is tempting for many Italians looking for a job or a better salary. Because the average salary in the Grand Duchy is 73,418 euros per year, more than double that of Italy. If we consider the 12 months of salary, the average salary in the smallest European country is 6,118 euros per ...