In Brussels, Syria has returned to the forefront of European political debate. Italy and seven other member states have suggested reviewing the European strategy towards the country governed by Bashar al-Assad and a staunch ally of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. The aim is to promote a more pragmatic approach that takes into account the central issue of refugees. “We have raised ...
The rift is over. The European Union foreign ministers have decided to take an important summit away from Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, the country that is leading the so-called European semester. The proposal put forward by the European Union’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, received the consensus of the foreign ministers of the 27 member states on July 22. The decision is ...
Roberto Vannacci, MEP elected on the Lega list, is still the vice-president of the newly formed sovereignist group Patriots for Europe in the EU Parliament. In the declaration of constitution of the political groups attached to the minutes of the Strasbourg plenary session of last Friday, July 19, consulted by Adnkronos, the general is in fact listed as one of ...
Politician, activist and prominent figure of the Lgbt+ community. And now also vice-president of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Rights. Alessandro Zan, elected in the recent European elections among the ranks of the Democratic Party for a seat in Strasbourg, obtains a prestigious position in his first mandate. Born in Padua in 1973, Zan has carved out a prominent ...
Ukraine has blocked Russian oil supplies to Viktor Orban’s Hungary and Robert Fico’s Slovakia, Vladimir Putin’s two main allies in the European Union. Kiev has sanctioned the Russian company Lukoil, which supplies Budapest and Bratislava through the Druzhba pipeline, the main artery for transporting oil from the federation and Kazakhstan to Europe through Ukraine. Now Hungary and Slovakia have asked ...
The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Delivery Hero and Glovo violated EU competition rules by participating in a cartel in the online ordering and delivery of food and groceries, as well as other everyday consumer goods in the European Economic Area (EEA). The European Union executive recalled that Delivery Hero and Glovo are two ...
Nicola Zingaretti will be the head of the Democratic Party delegation in the European Parliament. The former president of the Lazio Region, elected in the Central constituency with over 126 thousand preferences, has been chosen to take the place that in the last legislature was assigned to Brendo Benifei, who will now be president of the EU-US Delegation. Zingaretti’s deputy ...
The exclusion of sovereignists and ultranationalists from the control rooms of the Eurochamber has not been taken very well by the ranks of the League. The sanitary cordon erected by the forces of the centrist and pro-European majority is still in place and has prevented exponents of the extreme right, including the Patriots (the Carroccio group in Strasbourg), from obtaining ...
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 ...