Popular articles tagged "EU politics"
Many Right-wing populists in the West, from Donald Trump in the US, to Matteo Salvini in Italy, and Marine Le Pen in France, are known for their abrasive and direct…
At the age of 86, Silvio Berlusconi has died following a battle against leukaemia.
The pro-European Union party, Europe Now Movement (PES), appears to have gained the majority of votes after Montenegro’s snap national elections on June 11.
The EU’s foreign policy is the progenitor of a new era in international relations - or so argues a 2009 essay in the renowned journal Foreign Policy.
Furious debate has erupted over Hungary's upcoming presidency of the Council of the European Union, spurring demands to kill off the six-month rotating EU Council…
Critics of European Commission environment plans seem to be getting their way.
Věra Jourová, the Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency, has raised hackles among some MEPs after putting forward a proposal for…
The European Parliament has denied taking no action to combat harassment, in an internal newsletter circulated on June 7.
The European Commission has ratcheted up the pressure on Poland's ruling conservatives by launching legal action over a law establishing a special commission…
The European Union's proposed Migration Pact looks set to fail in a key vote at a meeting of the EU Council of ministers on June 8, according to a source close to…
The savage internal conflict poisoning Libya has been ongoing for more than a decade now.
Germans identify less with Europe than in the past, according to a new survey from German public broadcaster ARD.
Europe’s top research university for European Union affairs is struggling with an unprecedented wave of students who no longer believe in “ever closer union”.
Luxembourg Prime Minister, Xavier Bettel, has stepped into the fray over climate policy raging between Belgium's Prime Minister, Alexander De Croo, and Dutch EU…
Germany is the latest to voice concerns over Hungary taking up the rotating European Union presidency in the second half of 2024, questioning the country’s ability…
The UK Government has angered Brussels with demands for the refund of millions of pounds in benefits apparently wrongly paid to European Union nationals after a…
In the latest attempt by the European Parliament to promote openness and transparency in response to the Qatargate corruption scandal that implicated several MEPs…
Poland and Hungary are leading the resistance to the so-called ‘group of friends’ countries that are calling for the removal of unanimity voting on security…
The Italian government is seeking to block Ireland's new law that requires health labels to be attached to alcoholic beverages, including wine.
Euro MPs on a visit to Warsaw accused Poland’s education minister Przemysław Czarnek of behaving in a “brutal and aggressive” manner towards them, according…
Ursula von der Leyen now knows how long she has left to secure her flagship ‘green deal’ and make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050.
India, Vietnam, and South Africa baulk at criticising Russia’s invasion of Ukraine because they believe the West is not consistent in its values and principles,…
Three Euro MPs have been accused of using hate speech by female colleagues.
The European Union must prepare itself for a possible return of President Donald Trump, former Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt has warned.
Qatargate has become the biggest corruption scandal to hit the European Parliament. It has exposed the ability of foreign governments to penetrate European institutions.
Olaf Scholz contradicted French President Emmanuel Macron’s vision of the EU as a potential superpower in a speech in the European Parliament to mark ‘Europe…
German European People’s Party chairman Manfred Weber is the most influential MEP, according to a think tank report.
Eduard Heger has stepped down as prime minister of Slovakia following an EU funding scandal.
EU diplomats have de-platformed an Israeli minister by cancelling the event he was due to attend, according to reports.
The Sweden Democrats say they want more veto power over EU laws.
