Feed aggregator

Das für den 23. Mai geplante italienische TV-Duell zwischen Elly Schlein, der Vorsitzenden der Demokratischen Partei, und Ministerpräsidentin Giorgia Meloni wurde abgesagt. Im Vorfeld wurden Bedenken hinsichtlich der Fairness gegenüber den anderen Parteien geäußert.

Tornado Cash co-founder Alexey Pertsev was sentenced to a little over five months in jail this week by a Dutch court, for helping to create a tool that obfuscates the trail of cryptocurrencies. The tool, built and run on Ethereum blockchain, was used by hackers to launder their illicitly obtained funds.

The Pfizergate scandal broke in 2021, revealing that during the pandemic, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had negotiated a contract for 1.8 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla via mobile phone texts that remain undisclosed to this day.

Le parti de gauche Sumar et son ancien allié, le parti d’extrême gauche Podemos, ont fait pression sur le gouvernement Sánchez pour empêcher Madrid d’envoyer des armes à Israël à bord du navire « Borkum » qui devait accoster dans le port de Carthagène mercredi (15 mai).

Während der slowakische Ministerpräsident Robert Fico nach dem Attentat vom Mittwoch weiter um sein Leben kämpft, hat sein polnischer Amtskollege Donald Tusk eine der Morddrohungen veröffentlicht, die er in den sozialen Medien erhalten hat.

Am Mittwoch hat die französische Regierung ein TikTok-Verbot in Neukaledonien verhängt, um die weitreichenden Proteste einzudämmen, die das französische Überseegebiet im Südpazifik erschütterten. Experten stellen die Rechtmäßigkeit und Wirksamkeit der Maßnahme jedoch infrage.

Georgiens „Agentengesetz“ verändert grundlegend die Beziehungen zum Westen. Die EU sollte das Wahlergebnis nutzen, um ihre Beziehungen zu Tiflis neu zu bewerten, sagte Präsidentin Salome Surabischwili gegenüber Euractiv.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Bulgaria demanding €400 million from Russia's Gazprom for suspended gas supplies, Swedish Social Democrats wanting ID verification on social media on EU level to fight trolls, and so much more.

Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico remains in a serious but stable condition and is able to speak a little, the country's president-elect said on Thursday (16 May), a day after an assassination attempt that sent shock waves across Europe.

Mit 14 Prozent in den Umfragen macht Raphaël Glucksmann, der Spitzenkandidat der französischen Sozialistischen Partei (PS), die Unterstützung der Ukraine zur Priorität seiner Kampagne. Bei anderen internationalen Krisen, wie dem Krieg in Gaza, bleibt er dagegen differenzierter.

Finance ministers from the Group of Seven major democracies meeting in Italy next week will back a EU plan to use the income from frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine's war effort, an Italian Treasury official said on Thursday (16 May).

Over the past five years, Ursula von der Leyen’s College of Commissioners has presented a long list of legislative texts covering issues ranging from Green Deal legislation to defence industrial programmes. 

Kosovo’s last-minute bid to placate Germany and get its application for membership of the Strasbourg-based human rights body, the Council of Europe approved has been attacked by Serbian President Aleksander Vucic and criticised by Kosovo's President Vjosa Osmani.

Bulgarian state-owned gas company Bulgargas is seeking more than €400 million in damages from Russian gas monopoly Gazprom Export-Import for the sudden suspension of natural gas supplies at the end of April 2022.

The end-2023 MEPs failure to approve a comprehensive reform of the rules on pesticides epitomizes the difficulties of the Green Deal in agrifood policy. Two big agrifood policy files are pending for the next Parliament.

NATO's top commander said on Thursday (16 May) he did not believe Russia's military has deployed enough troops to make a strategic breakthrough in the region around Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine.

Le président de la République le vante, le ministre délégué à l’Énergie l'encense : le caractère décarboné du mix électrique français serait un atout sans commune mesure pour attirer les investissements étrangers, notamment dans l'industrie. La réalité est plus complexe.

Georgia's controversial 'foreign agent' law profoundly changes the country's relationship with its Western partners and the EU should take the outcome of the upcoming elections as a basis to reassess its ties with Tbilisi, the country's President Salome Zourabishvili told Euractiv.

Parliament in ex-Soviet Moldova voted on Thursday (16 May) to hold a referendum in October on European Union membership, the cornerstone of President Maia Sandu's policies, alongside a presidential election.

The left-wing to far-left platform Sumar and its former ally, the far-left Podemos party, have pressured the government of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to prevent Madrid from sending weapons to Israel on a ship that was due to dock in the south-east Spanish port of Cartagena, Murcia, on Wednesday.