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 ...
A Tunisian court has sentenced four potential presidential candidates to eight months in prison and banned them from running on charges of vote-buying, the ruling coming on the last day to submit nominations for the October 6 presidential election. Just yesterday, the dossier of the favorite arrived, the incumbent president Kais Saied, an ally of Europe and Italy in the ...
Ukraine will receive almost 4.2 billion euros of European funds after the EU Council gave the green light to the first payment of grants and loans under the Instrument for Ukraine, created by Brussels to support the macrofinancial stability of the country at war with Russia and the functioning of its public administration. In a decision adopted today, the Twenty-seven ...
Stop programs that induce you to stay glued to your cell phone screens forever. The social network TikTok has committed to permanently withdraw from the European Union the function of its new application, known as TikTok Lite, which rewards users for time spent on the screen with virtual coins to spend on other platforms. According to the European Union, this ...
A single ticket to travel by train throughout Europe. The dream of many travellers, but an initiative that is still difficult to achieve. The objective was proposed in the re-election speech to the European Parliament by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, but in the five years of her previous mandate this aim was not achieved. Let’s see what difficulties ...
A German MEP from a far-right party has accused Antonio Decaro of being close to the mafia, a gesture that has sparked the indignation of the former mayor of Bari who has promised to sue. It was MEP Christine Anderson of Alternative für Deutschland, a party that sits on the benches of the most right-wing group in the European Parliament, ...
Illegal detention, degrading conditions, deprivation and abuse. It is a real nightmare that refugees live daily in the Samos camp, funded by Brussels on the Greek island of the same name. Amnesty International has asked the government of Athens to review its migration policy, to prevent asylum seekers from being systematically consulted on the most basic human rights. At the ...
An alarm is ringing in Europe and it is being triggered by Hungary which has simplified the conditions for issuing work visas and entry into the country for Russian and Belarusian citizens. A choice – several European media report – that has raised concerns from many quarters regarding security risks and that is being interpreted by many quarters as a ...
The new European rules on the so-called “right to repair” of consumers have finally come into force. Brussels had asked that the citizens of the Twenty-seven be able to repair the products they buy more easily, especially digital devices. No sooner said than done. Last April, MEPs adopted the EU directive that aimed, among other things, to reduce the amount ...