Poland aims to promote a broader โequity cultureโ in the EU by removing various regulatory obstacles.
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On the margins of Parliamentโs Conference of Presidentsโ visit to Warsaw ahead of the Polish EU Council Presidency, President Metsola delivered the following speech. Source : ยฉ European Union, 2024 – EP
Cash allocated for poorer regions will be gone for good unless Hungary completes reforms asked by the Commission.
Trump should make his intentions known so the EU can make a contingency plan, says top Polish finance official.
Poland will host 22 informal council meetings in Warsaw, the upcoming Council Presidency announced.
Antรณnio Costa becomes the new European Council president at a crunch moment for the bloc.
NATO diplomats based in Budapest wanted to chat with Hungary about its ambiguous policy toward the Atlantic alliance, but were ignored.
The Hungarian PM is set to visit Tbilisi on Monday, highlight his split with other leaders of the bloc.
Viktor Orbรกn and Ursula von der Leyen clash at the Strasbourg plenary, after he presented Hungary’s EU Council Presidency initiatives.
On Wednesday, MEPs discussed Hungaryโs priorities for its six-month Council Presidency, which started on 1 July, with Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn. Source : ยฉ European Union, 2024 – EP
Strong pushback from European Commission president comes one month before grilling of future commissioners
Hungarian prime minister faces off with the press before his debate with EU leaders and national opposition in European Parliament.
Thousands died in wartime massacres and Warsaw wants Kyiv to admit responsibility and allow for exhumations and reburial of the victims.
SNEAK PEEK โ Austriaโs Clemens Martin Auer stresses the role of health care in democracies ahead of a major health policy summit in the Alps. โย The European Medicines Agency recommended two updated Covid-19 vaccines โ but targeting different variants. โย Hungaryโs secretary of state for health will present the Hungarian presidencyโs program on health to Parliamentโs [โฆ]
Once every five years the European Parliament gets to pick off a nominee or two โ and rarely fails to do so.
Everything you need to know about Ursula von der Leyen’s team for her second term.
Hungarian leader’s address was set to be a dramatic moment in Strasbourg. Now it’s off.
The EU must convince Washington to “lift restrictions on long-range strikes on all legitimate military targets in Russia,โ Kyiv’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.
Former climate and energy minister nominated to join Ursula von der Leyen’s team of commissioners.
Hungarian officials will face a dressing down and boycotts from the EUโs national parliaments at this weekend’s meeting of COSAC, an oft-overlooked EU institution that national lawmakers see as one of the few tools to make their voice heard in Brussels…
At the first Informal Health Council of the Hungarian EU Council Presidency on Thursday (25 July), State Secretary Pรฉter Takรกcs promised โcreative thinkingโ on the pending pharmaceutical package.
EU Council presidency holder Hungary claims progress in its push for an EU action plan on cardiovascular health and a potentially contentious plan to boost organ donation despite a diplomatic ruckus over the actions of its nationalist prime minister.
The Italian prime minister and her fellow euroskeptics now want to โchangeโ EU from within, extracting benefits while hollowing out its real spirit of unification.
Reprisal of Hungarian prime minister was included in a resolution to reaffirm strong support for Ukraine.
European Council president responds to Hungarian PM’s note about his “peace missions.”
At least four countries sent lower-ranking officials in protest to a Tuesday meeting in Budapest, a day after the EU executive told its commissioners to stay home.
The letter is the latest attempt to rein in Budapest’s rogue Council presidency.
Although geothermal energy plays a small part of the EUโs renewable energy mix, it has significant potential as a stable and local source in the Unions quest for energy independence.
Viktor Orbรกn enraged most of the alliance by meeting with Putin and Xi, while shunning Biden, as he seeks to negotiate a Ukraine war settlementIf there has been a spoiler at this weekโs carefully curated Nato summit, then it is Viktor Orbรกn, the conser…
EU ambassadors met yesterday (July 10th) to prepare a joint response after President Viktor Orbรกnโs unexpected visit to negotiate peace with Putin. The amicable nature of the dialogue between the two leaders in Moscow upset EU ambassadors, as Hungary u…
The EUโs food safety authority (EFSA) said that the Commission’s criteria to relax rules on certain gene-edited foods are ‘scientifically justified’, while the Hungarian Council Presidency is pulling the brakes on the file.ย ย
Hungarian Council presidency will have to wait till later in year for Prime Minister Viktor EU Orbรกn to present agenda – make Europe Great Again – before European Parliament.
In this edition, host Mรฉabh Mc Mahon asks what difference a Hungary-led EU Council presidency could make, and hears why Vienna’s the place to be.
Hungarian PM’s Moscow trip triggered a tidal wave of condemnation from his fellow leaders.
Four names. Two politicians. One power couple.
Spanish PM delegated his vote to his German counterpart for the upcoming summit of EU leaders.
In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Bulgaria warning North Macedonia that it is straying further from its EU path, the Polish government saying it aims to revise EU green policies during its upcoming EU Council presidency, and so mu…
The Polish government may use its position at the helm of the EU Council presidency in the first half of 2025 to revise some key green EU policies, including the ETS2 system, according to Polish media reports.
“Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer” is a saying that feels particularly relevant in Brussels as Hungary prepares to take over the presidency of the European Councilโone of the EU’s most crucial brokering positionsโin less than a week.
Vฤra Jourovรก’s heard this one before.
Victor Orbรกn briefed Italy’s PM Giorgia Meloni on Hungary’s upcoming EU Council presidency program, which focuses on illegal migration, Europe’s competitiveness, and declining birth rates.
Ursula von der Leyen could get burned, said former Luxembourg PM.
Brussels holds its breath as Budapest takes over rotating Council presidency.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn has railed against Western aid to Ukraine while spending big on defense at home.
The EU is set to approve new sanctions against Hamas and Israeli settlers this week.
It’s been a bad week for EU decision-making but a good one for trolling and the War on Jargon.
Countries clash over how to safeguard privacy when rooting out illegal pictures and grooming on private chat apps.
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The first round of talks between the EU and Ukraine will take place on 25 June, after member states endorsed the overall framework for negotiations.
Hungary is set to place food security at the forefront of its agenda as it takes over the EU Council presidency for the next six months starting on 1 July.
The EPP wants its people in three of the four top jobs in the next five years.
European environment ministers will gather in Luxembourg this morning (17 June) for the final Environment Council meeting of Belgium’s EU Council Presidency, aiming to progress several outstanding Green Deal files.
Belgian Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke has a great CV for the EU’s top health post. But will Belgium let him go?
When EU voters head to the polls later this week, one thing is certain: Almost none of them will be thinking of Europe when they cast their ballot.ย A plethora of studies โ and sky-high abstention rates โ show that most of the blocโs citizens neither understand nor care about the European Parliament vote. Because [โฆ]
EU energy ministers committed to work towards deeper integration of the European electricity grid and to facilitate longer-term and more cross-border planning at Thursday’s (30 May) meeting of the Energy Council, the last under Belgium’s six-month Coun…
Even before the European elections, maneuvering is under way for top jobs in Brussels.
That was the easy part. Now they have to agree on what those baseline rules should be.
Professor Steve Peers,
Royal Holloway, University of London
Photo credit: Ggia, via Wikimedia Commons(last updated 10 June 2024: changed text marked by an asterisk)Just before Christmas, the
European Parliament and the Council (the EU body consi…
The rollback came after capitals expressed “concerns” about the climate-friendly reforms, a document seen by POLITICO reveals.
The Belgian EU Council Presidency’s latest compromise text of the draft law on detecting and preventing online child sexual abuse material further clarifies risk categorisation thresholds and lays out service providers’ obligation for data retention.
Mette Frederiksen must convince her European Social Democrats colleagues her domestic track record is a good fit for a top job in Brussels.
Hungary will use its veto power if necessary once it assumes the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU.
The much-controversial steady deployment of partnerships with countries of origin and transit is next in the EU leadersโ plan to reduce migration influxes, now that the European Parliament has ratified a large-scale reform on how the bloc will deal wit…
Poland and Finland have resisted pressure to support the divisive Nature Restoration Law and instead switched to becoming explicit opponents, seriously limiting the Belgian EU Council Presidencyโs options for moving the file forward.
Belgium, which holds the Council presidency, is meant to act as an honest broker in talks.
A new document written by the Belgian EU Council presidency and seen by Euractiv outlines key details for the risk assessment that will form the backbone of a draft law to detect and remove online child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
Capitals secured major concessions in their last-minute push against more stringent rules.
Kyiv is desperate for aid, but getting the EU deal meant having to finesse objections from France, Germany and Hungary.
Introduced into the EU debate by the French EU Council presidency in 2022, the concept of ‘mirror clauses’ – or โmeasuresโ – has become ubiquitous in all discussions of EU trade, agricultural, and environmental policy.
The European Commission was expected to move forward on a negotiation framework in the next few weeks.
Warsaw and EU Commission will on Tuesday present a plan seeking to restore rule of law and end the EU’s sanctions procedures against it.
Countries’ insistence on more flexibility sparks row with Parliament.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Alexander De Croo and Kaja Kallas are some of those with famous parents in politics.
Hungarian leader took swift action to contain a domestic scandal, but the ruthlessness against two loyalists raises eyebrows even among supporters.
Law to determine whether riders and drivers are employees or contractors falls short of its mark.
Final agreement on platform work nixes Commmission proposal for EU-wide criteria for determining workers’ status.
While not the main entry point for drugs to Europe, Piraeus is a test of the EU’s ability to guarantee security at key infrastructure.
Belgium is talking up ways to get online content creators to behave.
Belgian finance minister Vincent Van Peteghem has said that developing an ‘Industrial Deal’ will be one of the key priorities of his countryโs EU Council presidency, adding that โcutting red tapeโ and improving the blocโs general investment climate are…
A business-friendly ‘Industrial Deal’ is gaining adherents as EU election approaches and anxiety over climate policy rises.
Renzi brought Draghi to power in Italy in 2021. Now he wants to do the same for Europe.
The risk in 2024 is that far from a geopolitical EU, a more insular bloc will emerge instead.
On Tuesday, MEPs discussed the programme of Belgiumโs six-month Council Presidency, which started on 1 January, with Prime Minister Alexander De Croo. Source : ยฉ European Union, 2024 – EP
In this episode we look at the ongoing tug-of-war between Budapest and Brussels in the context of a rather shocking development that could pave the way for Hungarian PM Viktorย Orbรกn โ who has won a reputation as the blocโs biggest troublemaker โ to chair meetings of EU leaders and set the EU agenda. It follows [โฆ]
As Belgium takes over the EU Council presidency, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib say Belgium’s experience with national political hurdles will guide the bloc through the many challenges of the upcoming six-month-long …
Belgium’s EU Council presidency will hold a scientific symposium in April on the controversial nutritional labelling of food to โshare experiencesโ on the system, reopening the debate between member states that use it and those opposing its adoption at…
Returning from the Christmas holidays, the Belgian EU Council presidency will host its first informal council and the European Parliament’s committees willย resume theirย work in Brussels.
EU leaders must choose successor to former Belgian PM, who is running as an MEP, before Hungary takes council presidency in JuneThe president of the European Council, Charles Michel, has said he is running as an MEP in Juneโs European elections and wil…
The move piles pressure on leaders, as countries seek to avoid Viktor Orbรกn seizing outsize influence during Hungary’s 6-month Council presidency.
Prime Minister Alexander De Croo โ whose country has taken over Europeโs rotating presidency โ outlines a controversial proposal in an interview with POLITICO.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sรกnchez and his stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, โapplauded by Hamas terroristsโ, have contributed to the โdivisionโ of Europe, EPP leader Manfred Weber told a session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on …
The idea was to expose Vladimir Putin; critics say it emboldens Viktor Orbรกn.
Institutional reforms, competitiveness, and protection of the European way of life are at the heart of Belgium’s EU Council presidency programme in the first half of 2024, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib unveile…
Hungarian prime minister reiterates his strong opposition to opening EU accession talks with Kyiv.
New European drug factories will be greener and more efficient than the old ones โ and their products more expensive.
Time is running out to make progress on files before the 2024 European election.
Hungary backs media outlets that wage war on woke and bring a Euroskeptic take to the EU capital.
The budget will help to address ‘the most urgent consequences of the crisis in the Middle East,’ the European Commission says.
Portuguese PM was frontrunner for one of future EU top jobs. Now the center left needs a new name to push.
Holding the EU Council presidency has given Spain the perfect opportunity to shine and demonstrate its leadership – at least, thatโs what Prime Minister Pedro Sรกnchez said. But today, that ambition looks grim.
