Strasbourg – With the European Parliament’s definitive approval of the new rules on countries of origin and safe third countries, the Union makes a turning point in the management of migration and effectively opens the way to the so-called “Albania model”. For the first time the European Union will have a common list of countries of origin considered safe. This ...
The European Parliament has approved some measures designed to protect the Union’s agriculture from possible negative effects due to the liberalization of trade with Mercosur. The new regulation creates a “bilateral safeguard clause”, a parachute that will allow the Union to temporarily suspend the tariff advantages granted to Mercosur countries on imports of certain agricultural products such as beef, pork ...
The European Parliament has approved new rules on the right to asylum which will allow member states to expel migrants more easily, also sending them to third countries, even if they do not have a direct link with those nations. This will pave the way for EU governments to establish so-called repatriation centres, following the model put in place by ...
Next, the newsletter of Europa Today which every Monday morning tells you what will happen in the European week Top of the agenda Retreat to the castle – Convened by the President of the European Council António Costa, the informal retreat of the heads of state and government of the 27 EU member countries will be held on Thursday 12 ...
Next, the newsletter of Europa Today which every Monday morning tells you what will happen in the European week Top of the agenda Retreat to the castle – Convened by the President of the European Council António Costa, the informal retreat of the heads of state and government of the 27 EU member countries will be held on Thursday 12 ...
Ahead of the next plenary session of the European Parliament, which will be held from 9 to 12 February in Strasbourg, MEPs from the different political groups present their priorities. They will be there – Flavio TosiForza Italia (EPP) – Paolo BorchiaLeague (Patriots for Europe) – Ruggero Razza FdI (Ecr) – Ignazio MarinoVerdi/Avs (Greens) – Pasquale TridicoM5S (The Left) Follow ...
It was July 2024 when some parcels sent by air via DHL courier caught fire in logistics centers in England and Germany. A few months earlier, two submarine telecommunications cables crossing the Baltic Sea had been cut by vessels. In the last few hours, hacker attacks have hit hotels in Cortina d’Ampezzo and Italian consulates abroad, on the eve of ...
The progressive Spanish government follows the position of some countries around the world and decides to ban the use of social media by children under 16. This is what was announced today by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai, anticipating five measures with which Madrid aims to deal with the abuse of large digital ...
A “freedom tax” to fund Ukraine’s security and defense. It is one of the most discussed points of the program of the new Dutch government currently being formed, a minority coalition between the progressive, popular liberals and the right-wing liberals. The declared objective is to strengthen the country’s “strength” in a context of growing threats – from the war in ...
The Pasdaran are on the same level as Isis, al-Qaeda, Hamas and Hezbollah. The European Union has excluded military intervention in Iran from its political agenda, but has taken up the weapon it deems most powerful, that of registering the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, better known as the Pasdaran, on the list of terrorist organisations. Italy’s fear and Iran’s response “If ...