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Parliament’s monitoring group has invited the prime minister, culture minister, chief prosecutor and ombudsman, as well as media and civil society, to a meeting on Friday.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP

Parliament’s monitoring group has invited the prime minister, culture minister, chief prosecutor and ombudsman, as well as media and civil society, to a meeting on Friday.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP

Parliament’s monitoring group has invited the prime minister, culture minister, chief prosecutor and ombudsman, as well as media and civil society, to a meeting on Friday.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP

After the fourth election in two years, the formation of a government in Israel is yet again proving difficult. Despite losses, Prime Minister Netanyahu's right-wing conservative Likud remains the strongest party with around 90 percent of the votes counted, but this is not enough for him to secure a majority with the alliance of right-wing and religious parties he wants. Commentators discuss the options in this deadlock situation.

Chancellor Merkel on Wednesday reversed plans for a five-day strict lockdown over Easter that had just been decided on Monday. She apologised to the nation, saying that the decision had not been well thought through. Europe's commentators are dismayed by what looks like an increasingly chaotic pandemic policy in Germany.

The front runners are Israel, the US, and the UK. These countries have managed to vaccinate their populations against the coronavirus faster than the countries of the EU. Observers look at why the European Union is lagging so far behind, and find answers in the way the public and private sectors deal with each other.

Romania's Minister of Economic Affairs Claudiu Năsui has proposed a law that would create a public register listing all employees of the notorious former communist secret police Securitate as well as their relatives. Under the rule of communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, which ended in 1989, the Securitate was responsible for the deaths of around 200,000 Romanians. The national press is not convinced by Năsui's proposal.