Josep Borrell is pushing member states to approve sanctions against the most extremist ministers of the Israeli government. The High Representative of the European Union wants to punish the Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and the Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, for violating international law. Borrell had already called in the past for sanctions against the two ministers of ...
Suspend the association agreement between the European Union and Israel, an agreement on which a trade exchange of 48 billion euros a year depends. This is what about sixty international organizations that defend press freedom are asking Brussels to do, pointing the finger at attacks on media freedom and the killing of an “unprecedented” number of journalists by Tel Aviv ...
Following the attack in Solingen, the German government has promised to step up deportations of illegal immigrants. Chancellor Olaf Scholz made the pledge during a visit to the city where the mass stabbing claimed by the Islamic State took place on Friday evening (August 23), killing three people and wounding nine others. The assailant later turned himself in to the ...
In the first seven months of 2024, migrant arrivals on Italian coasts dropped by 62.36 percent compared to the previous year, with a boom in landings in Spain instead, where migratory flows increased by a whopping 153 percent. These are the data reeled off with ill-concealed pride by the Italian government in its latest dossier on the activities of the ...
He had promised it during the election campaign. And, after some hesitation, it seems that the promise could be followed through: Alvise Perez, leader of the Spanish right-wing party Salf, will put his salary as an MEP up for grabs. A real lottery in which Spanish citizens can participate. On the condition, however, of providing a large amount of personal ...
No more extensions of beach concessions. The message from the Antitrust, which arrived on August 12, is clear and seems to want to block in advance the government’s intentions to extend all beach concessions until December 31, 2025. It had already expressed itself in this sense in the past, with reasoned opinions addressed to both the Municipalities and Parliament, but ...
The European Union must consider imposing sanctions against Israel, in response to the violence of the attacks on the Gaza Strip and the extremist statements of the most radical members of the government in Tel Aviv. This is what Josep Borrell, the outgoing High Representative, believes, according to whom “sanctions must be on the agenda of our EU”. In a ...
As promised, China has appealed to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in response to the European Union’s decision to impose duties on electric cars imported from the People’s Republic starting July 5, which Brussels accuses of unfairly favoring domestic producers with state subsidies. “China has appealed to the dispute settlement mechanism of the World Trade Organization,” the Chinese Ministry of ...
Bulgaria will go to new early elections in the coming months, the seventh in the last three years. The third and final attempt foreseen by the constitution to form a new government, after the early vote on 9 June, held together with the European elections, has also failed. The representative of ‘There is a People Like This’ (Itn), a populist ...
“Long live free Catalonia”: After seven years in exile, Catalan independence leader Carles Puigdemont made a brief reappearance in front of a few thousand supporters in Barcelona, before fleeing the country again to avoid arrest. The leader of the 2017 unilateral secession attempt, who has since lived in self-imposed exile in Belgium, had announced his intention to participate in the ...