Salvo Nicolosi
and Tรผrkan Ertuna Lagrand, University of UtrechtPhoto credit: USAID, via Wikimedia Commons
Just a couple of weeks after the Taliban regime in
Afghanistan announced a
new decree prohibiting women from being heard …
Thousands died in wartime massacres and Warsaw wants Kyiv to admit responsibility and allow for exhumations and reburial of the victims.
For the first time since the beginning of the invasion, Ukraine has taken up the position of ‘occupier’ in this Russian region. The army knows it must remain above reproach if it is not to jeopardize the country’s European integration and the support o…
Fugitive pro-Russian businessman Ilan Shor, who was convicted last year in absentia for his role in the theft of $1 billion from Moldovan banks, offered payments to anyone who voted against European integration.
The time for feet dragging is over, but the sense of urgency is still missing. And there is more: In addition to being very demanding, these challenges need to be faced simultaneously. Is that even possible, Ricardo Borges de Castro asks.
Jack Byrne and Jim Cosgrove respond to a piece by Maurice J Casey about Irish identity and immigrationMaurice J Caseyโs article on immigration in Ireland recounts his experience of multiracial Ireland as well as examples of people of colour โ Paul Robe…
Former Labour prime minister says Conservatives must unite and heed concern over immigration.
The rise and integration of artificial intelligence into our daily lives is no longer a futuristic fantasy, but new data shows AI in the media sector might do more harm than good.
Ahead of a meeting of industry ministers in Brussels on Thursday (26 September), twenty EU countries signed an initiative to remove single market barriers, an effort they feel has received too little attention by the recent reports by Enrico Letta and …
Albania and the European Economic and Social Committee will set up a Joint Consultative Committee as Albania moves forward on its European Union integration path.
Olaf Scholz’s hostility to UniCredit’s swoop on Commerzbank is a sign that pan-European integration will remain elusive.
At this perilous moment, a recommitment to nuclear arms control is nothing short of a moral imperative. Weโve done this work before; we can do it again.
The Commission president is promising to move quickly with far-reaching reforms. How credible is her plan?
In this edition, we hear how Sweden wants to pay migrants to return to their countries of origin in a bid to improve integration.
On Tuesday, Mario Draghi outlined his blueprint for improving Europeโs competitiveness through closer cooperation in core areas and massive investment in shared objectives. Source : ยฉ European Union, 2024 – EP
Spanish minister tipped for key role in the next EU executive says power grid expansion should be a core European project for the second von der Leyen Commission.
Regardless of the raceโs outcome, the blocโs interests donโt fully align with those of Washington, and itโs time to finally recognize this.
A parliamentary majority and martial law mean the Ukrainian president has the right to assemble his government as he sees fit, but the opposition is crying foul.
Dmytro Kuleba, Kyiv’s top diplomat throughout Russia’s full-scale invasion, submits his resignation along with a slew of top officials.
The brigade is set to conduct its first large-scale field training exercise in November and demonstrate its integration into the NATO higher command structure. Full combat readiness is projected for 2026.
Fugitive Moldovan oligarchs Ilan Shor and Veaceslav Platon spent around โฌ136,000 in the last three months on Facebook campaigns to spread panic, discredit Moldova’s EU integration process and boost Russia’s image, WatchDog.MD experts have found.
Sahra Wagenknechtโs brand of โleft conservatismโ is upending German politics ahead of critical elections in the east.
Irmgard Furchner was convicted of being an accessory to the murder of more than 10,000 people at the Stutthof concentration camp.
Labour wants to show government can work after a wave of social unrest.
EU governments face awkward choices over asylum-seekers, labour market shortages and integration of newcomers
Better integration would help reduce delays, but despite airline backing there are legal and political problemsFor airlines struggling to reconcile their stated aims of cutting carbon emissions and making billions from flying ever more passengers, one …
Danish politicians are worried about teenage Swedish contract killers hired to commit crimes in Denmark.
The 33-year-old minister of digital transformation piloted the “Army of Drones” project and, in an interview with Le Monde, promotes the integration of new technology on the battlefield.
The Kyiv government is strapped for cash, but millions depend on aid to survive.
Extremist and populist parties exploit real fears and frustrations โ they don’t invent them. And far too many feel their grievances have been insufficiently addressed by the political center.
Secretary of state says suspension is due to โanti-democraticโ actions from the Georgian governmentThe US has suspended $95m in assistance to Georgia after its parliament adopted legislation related to foreign agents that critics say was inspired by a …
Since the start of the full-scale invasion, over two-thirds of Ukraine’s conventional power plant capacity has been occupied, destroyed, or attacked. This translates into a significant supply-demand mismatch that requires daily power cuts for the war-t…
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.
Ana Rita Gil*, Aylin Yildiz
Noorda** & Lucas Ricardo***
* Professor, Law Faculty of the
University of Lisbon, Portugal. Researcher at the Lisbon Public Law. Email:
anaritagil@fd.ulisboa.pt.
** Postdoctoral Researcher at the
…
It seems that France is going to have to learn coalition politics after a parliamentary election in which no party or bloc came close to winning an absolute majority. Germany and other countries have experience of grand coalitions, but in France, a wi…
Hugo Partouche, Attorney-at-law
(avocat) at the Paris Bar, and Chloรฉ Berthรฉlรฉmy, Senior Policy Advisor,
EDRi
Photo credit: hacker-silhoutte,
via Wikimedia
commons
*A first version of this article
was published in French by Actualitรฉ …
The draft summit statement says allies will never recognize Russiaโs annexations of parts of Ukraine and denounces Chinaโs partnership with Moscow.
The expected decision would be a major win for Ukraine and make the Washington summit among NATOโs most historic in its 75-year history.
A tour of Britain’s provincial towns reveals a restless nation with no love for its political class.
Formerly sedate attempts at electricity market integration in South-Eastern Europe have been given a new dynamism amid a concrete EU perspective โ and a looming punitive CO2 duty.
A Labour victory in the UK general today (4 July) would likely not lead to a significant improvement in UK-EU trade ties in the near-term but could lay the foundations for deeper economic integration over the coming years, experts say.
Multiple high-profile acts of violence, and the rising popularity of the far right. have convinced the German chancellor to deport migrants who commit crimes.
Some foreign policy experts want Ukraine to move closer to joining the alliance, while others say it would rupture the military bloc.
The EUโs New Pact on Migration is designed to deliver a coordinated approach to European migration. However, it overlooks citiesโ crucial integration role while reinforcing migration as a threat to be controlled, Simona Bieliลซnฤ and Rutger Groot Wassin…
Amid warnings of backsliding on key reforms, the ruling party is focusing on a different type of goal altogether.
By amplifying Putinโs bogus claims of NATOโs responsibility for todayโs war, Western politicians like Trump and Farage risk legitimizing Russian imperialism.
New declaration calls on the West to help ensure free and fair elections in wake of “foreign agent” law outcry.
Recent election of Greek MEP imprisoned in Albania fans diplomatic flames.
Investigators raided Werner Hoyerโs house as part of an “abuse of influence” investigation.
Quietly and without much fanfare, Viktor Orbรกnโs government is allowing more and more guest workers into the country.
North Macedonia’s lawmakers on Sunday (23 June) approved a new nationalist-dominated government of Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski, whose party won general elections in May banking on voters’ anger at the slow pace of European Union integration.
New guidance issued by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on medical devices aims to streamline procedures, but integrating technologies into healthcare systems remains challenging, warns Polish industry.
The former Italian prime minister is preparing to issue a sweeping report on economic competitiveness that sets up Europe to take on China โ and America.
Vyacheslav Morozovย is accused of using his position as a researcher to collect intelligence for Russia.
Pupils have won prizes for proposals to improve facilities that in some cases were so filthy they wouldnโt use them Germanyโs first School Toilet Summit has met, seeking initiatives across the EUโs biggest country to make facilities less off-putting fo…
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…
The new Apple and OpenAI partnership aiming to ingrate ChatGPT into Apple’s operating systems, virtual assistant, and writing tools poses important questions about competition and privacy, experts told Euractiv.
European integration generates rightwing nationalist politics in the west and market liberalism in the east
Pascal Lamy, a 77-year-old “globalist” Frenchman who has staked his decades-long career on the idea that more Europe is always better than less, has told FRANCE 24 he’s hopeful that the solid gains by hard-right and Eurosceptic parties in the EU elect…
Higher trade barriers, more subsidies, and bigger European companies, are all part of the solution.
Four political groups sent letters to the European Parliament to pressure for answers and mitigation measures in a data leak, Apple’s ChatGPT integration could draw DMA scrutiny.
The French political class is tearing itself apart with feuding and backbiting ahead of this month’s vote.
Europe and Central Asia are collaborating to connect their regions within 15 days or less, through a transformational transport corridor. The Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor Coordination Platform was launched in Astana on 12 June marking a milestone i…
President Macron Wednesday gave his first press conference after announcing Sunday the dissolution of the French parliament in what FRANCE 24 International Affairs Editor Angela Diffley called a โvery strange exerciseโ. Macron โbasically said if our p…
ChatGPT integration into Apple’s operating service iOS later this year could trigger an update of EU’s digital antitrust regulation by the European Commission, a spokesperson said.
An alliance with Reconquest would strengthen Marine Le Pen’s National Rally ahead of a snap election.
The Ukrainian presidentโs wishlist for Biden and Macron includes requests to strike deeper into Russia and unlock frozen Russian assets.
Aid to Ukraine will be a priority, along with defense production and defense budget targets, when NATO allies gather in Washington next month.
Welcome to Euractivโs Tech Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU.
A more right-wing European Parliament could mean fewer regulatory initiatives in the area of tech, a weakened push for market integration, but more support for defence tech, according to party manifestos and an interview with an expert.
Centrists and pragmatic rightwing parties could at least compromise on the most urgent global threatsFew issues divide reliable centrist dads from rightwing and leftwing outliers as much as the European Union. Traditionally, the idea of European integr…
Marine Le Penโs National Rally party has harnessed the countryโs widespread discontent with the elite in the capital.
Todayโs situation demands the EU to put foreign and defence policy alignment into the heart of the enlargement process, Laurence Boone and Nicu Popescu write.
Focus on immigration and Islamist extremism could benefit the far right in the final days of the campaign.
The governmentโs crusade against European and American influence comes at the cost of one of the countryโs only economic lifelines.
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…
Das Briefing dazu, wie sich Entscheidungen in Brรผssel auf Sie auswirken. Mit dem Wissen des grรถรten Newsrooms der europรคischen Hauptstadt. Im Browser anzeigen oder hier anhรถren von JรRGEN KLรCKNER Mit LAURA HรLSEMANN und JULIUS BRINKMANN DIE TOP-THEMEN โ Desinformation auf Facebook: Eine Auswertung, die POLITICO vorliegt, zeigt, wie das soziale Netzwerk vor der Wahl damit [โฆ]
Associations of European startups called for more integration of the EU’s single market to better support innovators in a political declaration.
Donald Tusk promised his backers a revolution, but it turns out that rapid change is hard in a deeply divided country.
Moldovan citizens will go to the polls for presidential elections and a referendum on the countryโs future EU integration in October, but for Chisinau’s pro-EU government, the bigger challenge until then is the fight against Russian disinformation.
Twelve parties in Moldova clinched a pact on Sunday (26 May) committing them to act in favour of EU membership for the ex-Soviet state as the campaign for an October referendum on European integration heats up.
Germany and France, the EU’s largest economies, have long been seen as the driving force of European integration, despite occasional policy differences.
The proposals would allocate millions for democracy-building while imposing restrictions on Georgian Dream politicians.
DIE TOP-THEMEN โ Strategie fรผr die kommenden fรผnf Jahre: Wie die EU-Chefs die gemeinsame Verteidigung ausbauen wollen, geht aus einem noch unverรถffentlichten Entwurf der Strategieagenda hervor. POLITICO kennt die Details. โ Rechtsauรen-Fraktion wirft AfD raus: Der Skandal um ihren Spitzenkandidaten Maximilian Krah kostet die Partei ihre Sitze in der ID-Fraktion. Der AfD gehen damit voraussichtlich [โฆ]
Local leaders want EU to fund affordable housing, sustainable mobility and adaptation to climate change.
Ireland attempted to avoid ruffling Washingtonโs feathers in private conversations ahead of the announcement.
According to experts at the European Maize Congress, Ukraineโs reinvigorated capacity to export cereals raises questions about competition with EU producers, but future integration can be an opportunity for the bloc to increase the influence in the foo…
Faculty has emerged as the UKโs homegrown champion in AI safety โ though some question its political links.
Klaas Knot, President of De Nederlandsche Bank, anticipates a June ECB rate cut and has advocated for deeper financial integration through the capital markets union and banking union to enhance Europe’s economic resilience and growth potential.
Moscow advancing in Ukraine allows nearby countries โto shift their policy in a much more pro-Russian direction.โ
Georgia PM GeorIrakli Kobakhidze pushes back against sanctions threat; Heroes Square blocked by demonstrators after controversial โforeign agentsโ bill passes. This blog is now closed.Police fire teargas at protesters and MPs brawl as Georgia passes โf…
Bulgaria does not accept Skopje’s statements contradicting the Neighbourhood Treaty, Bulgarian authorities said following the swearing-in of North Macedoniaโs new President Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova on Sunday, reminding the nationalist VMRO-DPMNE par…
In the last three decades, weโve enjoyed the luxury of not having to ask ourselves what it is we stand for. But those times have passed.
The court ruled that the agency is justified in classifying Alternative for Germany as a suspected extremist organization due to statements “against the principals of democracy.”
Das Briefing dazu, wie sich Entscheidungen in Brรผssel auf Sie auswirken. Mit dem Wissen des grรถรten Newsrooms der europรคischen Hauptstadt. Im Browser anzeigen oder hier anhรถren von JรRGEN KLรCKNER Mit LAURA HรLSEMANN und JULIUS BRINKMANN DIE TOP-THEMEN โ Ukraine fordert mehr Hilfen: Justizminister Maljuska kritisiert im POLITICO-Interview die Entscheidung der EU, nur die Zinseinnahmen auf [โฆ]
Markus Frischhut, Jean
Monnet Professor (EU law, ethics and values) at Management Center Innsbruck,
Austria and Adjunct professor at โAlma Mater Studiorum – Universitร di Bolognaโ,
Italy
Art credit: William Hogarth, An Election: the Polling
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The outgoing US Envoy for the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, has commented on Chinese President Xi Jinpingโs visit to France, Hungary, and Serbia, agreeing that it was carefully timed to increase tensions with the West and aimed at creating a new ax…
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, officially began his fifth term in office on Tuesday after an inauguration ceremony in Moscow’s Grand Kremlin Palace. Putin won March’s election, claiming a record landslide victory with 87.28% of the vote, which …
A new administration risks rekindling old tensions with Bulgaria and Greece โ which can both throw up major obstacles to Skopje.
Europe must boost its investment in R&D, skills, infrastructure, and the integration of eco-friendly and advanced technologies if it is to achieve its environmental objectives and maintain a competitive edge, say institutional banks.
