Looking at Trump, Europeโ€™s far right vows to โ€˜reconquerโ€™ the continent

โ€œOur friend Trump, the Trump tornado, has changed the world in just a couple of weeks,โ€ Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn tells far-right rally in Madrid.

Ireland gets โ€˜screwedโ€™ as EU influence ebbs

Dublin “underperformedโ€ in its race for the bloc’s top jobs, especially those in economic policy, which it normally covets.

Daughter of Moldovaโ€™s pro-Kremlin presidential candidate is keeping your bank safe

Corina Stoianoglo posts selfies with ECB president while her father strives to keep her fellow-citizens out of the EU.

The new EU political cycle must renew the momentum for CCU techs [Promoted content]

Europeans voted in June 2024 for new EU Parliament representatives. With a new mandate starting, a crucial question lingers: will Europe pursue ambitious climate action? Will it support net zero technologies like CCU to build more sustainable industria…

The job no one wants: EU health commissioner

Health policy is looking like the poor cousin and is likely to be downgraded this mandate.

Empowering the EUโ€™s road transport industry

The EUโ€™s road transport sector faces critical challenges. The IRU’s roadmap urges policymakers to enact supportive legislation to ensure the EU’s economic and environmental goals are met.

Cyprus eyes chance to run EU Mediterranean policyย 

Ursula von der Leyen plans a new EU commissioner for the Mediterranean Sea region.

Brothers of Italy face cordon sanitaire test at European Parliament

Italyโ€™s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will find out today if her party’s lawmakers are barred from securing high-level posts in the European Parliament by pro-EU political groups.

Von der Leyenโ€™s charm offensive ahead of secret, knife-edge vote on her futureย 

Secret ballot poses extra challenge as European Commission president seeks a second term.

Italyโ€™s Tajani says von der Leyen will be โ€˜forcedโ€™ to deal with ECR

The coalition behind Ursula von der Leyen will reach an agreement with the European Conservatives and Reformists group (ECR) in the European Parliament as it is the only way for her to secure a second mandate, said Italian Deputy Prime Minister Antonio…

ECR saved as PiS reaches compromise with Fratelli dโ€™Italia: Polish media

Polandโ€™s conservative PiS party has reached an agreement with Giorgia Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia (FdI) about the division of key posts within their EU political family, the European Conservatives andย Reformistsย Group (ECR), Polish Press Agency (PAP) re…

Europe live: Mark Rutte says Nato โ€˜cornerstone of our collective securityโ€™ as he is formally selected as its head

Outgoing Dutch PM will take over from Jens Stoltenberg as secretary-general in OctoberThe Kremlin said today that Mark Rutteโ€™s appointment as Natoโ€™s next secretary-general would be unlikely to change the allianceโ€™s overall stance, Reuters reported.Gior…

EU political groups play high-stakes game of musical chairs

The new legislature’s work has unofficially kicked off in Brussels, as per post-election choreography. Freshly elected MEPs are now confronted with the choice to join existing political groups or form new ones

Recent asylum case law of the CJEU: Distinction, Integration or Extension from ‘Mainstream’ EU law?

 Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of
London

Photo credit: Luxofluxo, via Wikimedia Commons

 

Introduction

While attention has been focussed
on the overhaul of EU law on asylum โ€“ which I have analysed in an upcoming
article…

Protecting the conditional autonomy of governing bodies in sport from review โ€˜from a competition standpointโ€™: how the Court should decide its pending cases on the transfer system, the regulation of agents and club (re-)location.

 Stephen Weatherill

Jacques Delors Professor of
European Law (Emeritus), Faculty of Law and Somerville College, University of
Oxford

Photo: Lassana Diarra, by ะ ั‹ะฑะฐะบะพะฒะฐ ะ•ะปะตะฝะฐ, on Wikimedia Commons

 

In preparing this paper I have
bene…

North Macedoniaโ€™s EU aspirations face bumpy ride after elections

A new administration risks rekindling old tensions with Bulgaria and Greece โ€” which can both throw up major obstacles to Skopje.

Single market is our path for Europeโ€™s prosperity, security

The single market is Europeโ€™s industrial strategy and the right tool for the prosperity and security of our continent. On the basis of the Letta report, liberals call on EU political forces to agree on an action plan for competitiveness, writes Marie-A…

Moscowโ€™s influence โ€˜activeโ€™ in all EU political groups, Morawiecki claims

All political groups in the European Parliament are at risk or have already been penetrated by Russia, including the Conservatives, as Russians are โ€œmasters of propaganda,โ€ former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki warned in an interview with Eur…

EU election latest: Knives out for Ursula von der Leyen

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EU political parties promise to steer clear of deepfakes ahead of election

The voluntary EU code of conduct includes a promise to not produce, use or disseminate “any form of deceptive content.”

Czechs sanction Medvedchuk, website over pro-Russian EU political influence

The Czech government on Wednesday (27 March) sanctioned two people including pro-Russian Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk and the news website voiceofeurope.com for leading a pro-Russian influence operation in Europe, the Czech Foreign Ministry s…

EU liberals leader visits Kyiv as Ukraine takes spotlight in EU elections

As all main EU political parties have placed Ukraine and defence at the fore of their EU elections campaign, the EU liberals chief and campaign leader, Valรฉrie Hayer, visited Kyiv on Tuesday (26 March) to show support and announce her plans to integrat…

Ukraine slams grain trade restrictions at EU summit

Restrictions on Ukrainian agricultural exports to the EU could translate into military losses in their bid to stop Russia’s war, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky warned EU leaders during their summit in Brussels on Thursday.

The European soft drinks sectorโ€™s vision for a more sustainable and competitive food and drink industry [Promoted content]

The European soft drinks sectorโ€™s Manifesto for the upcoming 2024-2029 EU political term is grounded in our ambition to promote balanced diets, drive environmental sustainability across our supply chain and uphold our position as a globally competitive…

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 654

Kremlin rejects peace talks on Kyivโ€™s terms in 2024 as โ€˜absolutely unrealisticโ€™; Russian strikes on Ukraine kill at least one, injuring sixSee all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageThe Kremlin has said that the idea Russia would engage in peace talks with…

Putinโ€™s buddy Orbรกn pushes EU to the brink over Ukraine

This month’s summit will be a decisive test of how far Budapest will go to thwart EU support for Kyiv.

Lithuania asks EU not to drop ammo refunds for Ukraine

Small members would struggle to continue sending weapons to Kyiv in the absence of the EPF, Foreign Minister Landsbergis tells POLITICO.

[Investigation] Farmers speak out at ‘industry capture’ of centre-right MEPs

Ahead of the European elections next year, the European People’s Party are pitching themselves as the ‘farmers’ representatives’ in Brussels. But they are making misleading claims when they oppose nature-friendly laws in the name of farmers, say critics.