President Petr Pavel appointed Mikuláš Bek as the new Education Minister and Martin Dvořák as the new Minister for European Affairs on Thursday, giving a new face to the government led by Prime Minister Petr Fiala. Dvořák (both Mayors and...
The Polish ruling camp will put forward a bill against the “sexualisation” of children and adolescents, aimed at giving parents greater freedom in bringing up their children, ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party leader Jarosław Kaczyński said on Thursday. The...
Portugal’s extremist far-right Chega party has decided to postpone the “World Right Summit” – a meeting with international far-right figures that the party was organising and was scheduled for mid-May in Lisbon – following harassment experienced by some of the...
Christian Lindner avanciert zum Beschützer des Binnenmarkts. Denn sein Kampf gegen den von den Koalitionspartnern gewünschten Industriestrompreis leistet der Kommissionsvize Magrethe Vestager Schützenhilfe, kommentiert Nikolaus J. Kurmayer.
Le groupe Renew du Parlement européen pourrait ne pas se mettre d’accord sur une position commune concernant la réforme des règles budgétaires de l’UE, a déclaré le porte-parole du FDP allemand pour la politique européenne, Michael Georg Link.
The country’s left-wing government received an unexpected boost for its future political ambitions on Thursday ahead of Spain’s regional elections: record employment figures and a tangible reduction of unemployment data, a considerable achievement in post-pandemic and war, times. Currently, there...
Billions of euros of investments in defence spending will be used to modernise the army and help cope with accumulated challenges such as decaying facilities, the government announced on Thursday. Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen declared at a press conference...
Andrea Jelinek is the first Chair of the European Data Protection Board. We discussed with her the first five years of GDPR enforcement, the progress that still needs to be done and the challenges posed by AI like ChatGPT.
Ein Bericht des Europäischen Parlaments, der die Regulierung der Sexarbeit fordert, spaltet die EU-Abgeordneten. Dabei geht es vor allem um das vorgeschlagene Regulierungsmodell, den Wortlaut, aber auch um die Legitimität von Sexarbeit generell.
Le parti conservateur chrétien-démocrate bavarois (CSU) a exclu toute coalition avec l’extrême droite après que le parti italien de la Ligue de Matteo Salvini a fait des avances pour se rapprocher du Parti populaire européen (PPE) de centre droit.
La proposition de résolution communiste condamnant « l’apartheid » qui serait mis en place par Israël à l’égard des Palestiniens et appelant au boycott économique du pays, rejetée par l’Assemblée nationale, a ravivé des divisions à gauche de l'échiquier politique.
Le Premier ministre néerlandais a rencontré le président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky à La Haye ce jeudi (4 mai). Cette rencontre a suscité des critiques de la part de l’opposition néerlandaise car elle coïncide avec la date à laquelle les Pays-Bas commémorent leurs morts depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Following a massive migration to the West, Romania has seen an increase in the number of doctors, but the current ratio (346 doctors per 100,000 inhabitants) is still not enough.
A surprise visit to Zagreb by Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic as well as her meeting with Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, is seen as the first concrete step towards the normalisation of strained relations between Croatia and Serbia. Admittedly, the...
The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) and the Association of Ukrainian Cities are organising summer camps all over the EU to host Ukrainian children to offer targeted psychological help to stabilise their emotional state and distract them from traumatising...
Chancellor Karl Nehammer told the Austrian parliament that he opposed a more deeply integrated EU, rejecting a German-led push for a move away from unanimity voting, citing European countries’ individual histories. On Thursday, a nine-country coalition led by German made...
The communist motion for a resolution condemning Israel’s “apartheid” of Palestinians and calling for an economic boycott of the country was rejected by the French National Assembly on Thursday, which rekindled differences on the left of the political spectrum. The...
In the framework of cooperation on security and the fight against terrorism with Belgium, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne will welcome Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo to the Matignon Hotel on Friday, Borne’s cabinet announced in a press release...
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