Politics 26-04-2024
After the working parties on Thursday (April 25) between representatives of the Member States, no serious progress is expected on revision of the energy taxation directive during the Belgium presidency of the EU council.
Germany's far-right AfD is in deep crisis mode ahead of its election campaign kick-off on Saturday, with its two leading candidates for the European elections embroiled in scandals over spying for China and catering to Russian influence attempts.
China on Friday (26 April) passed a law leaving its biggest trade partners in no doubt that it can hit back should they put tariffs on the exports of the world's No.2 economy as Washington and Brussels take aim at Beijing over excess industrial capacity.
Together with Andrea Renda, Senior Research Fellow and Head of the CEPS Unit on Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and the Digital Economy, we break down the Letta report's key technological insights.
European Commission Vice-President for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová called for the respect of media freedom in Slovakia during her meeting with Culture Minister Martina Šimkovičová and other Slovak government officials on Thursday, a day after the government approved the new draft law to overhaul public broadcaster RTVS.
India began voting on Friday (26 April) in the second phase of the world's biggest election, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his rivals raise the pitch of the campaign by focusing on hot-button issues such as religious discrimination, affirmative action and taxes.
The Czech economy has benefited from joining the European Union 20 years ago, as accessing the European market boosted Czech exports and helped the country’s GDP, Marek Rojicek, chairman of the Czech Statistical Office (CSU), said on Thursday.
Poland must maintain close ties with the US, and the Franco-German-Polish Weimar Triangle must be urgently revived, Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski told parliament on Thursday, noting that NATO as a defensive mechanism would withstand a Russian attack on its members and result in defeat.
The Swedish government will send a small battalion to the NATO Multinational Force in Latvia as part of the country’s contribution to the transatlantic alliance, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson announced on Thursday.
The United States hopes its new deliveries of weaponry will help Ukraine rebuild defenses and refit its forces as it recovers from a gap in US assistance, but it does not expect Kyiv to launch large-scale offensive operations against Russian forces in the near term.
Following espionage and foreign influence scandals involving Germany’s far-right party AfD, Marine Le Pen’s party said on Thursday (25 April) they would be "vigilant" and reassess ties with the party after the June elections.
Romania's Orthodox Church says it will keep welcoming priests bolting from Moldova's Russian-linked Orthodox Church to join a growing rival body subordinate to Bucharest as it believes the ex-Soviet state's future lies with Europe.
Political turmoil that started in Spain following Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s announcement he may step down has spread to Brussels, with the EU Socialists accusing the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) of supporting “fascist tactics” to discredit the opposition.
A Palestinian civil defence team on Thursday (25 April) called on the United Nations to investigate what it said were war crimes at a Gaza hospital, saying nearly 400 bodies were recovered from mass graves after Israeli soldiers departed the complex.
Italy, with backing from European leaders, needs to secure a robust commitment from the G7 to raise its collective target to a tripling of renewables capacity by 2030.
In this episode of our daily podcast ‘Today in the EU’, we talk about espionage in Europe as more and more politicians have been accused of having ties with foreign governments in the past month.
After delays, the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) party approved their manifesto for June's EU elections on Tuesday (23 April), but failed to agree on a Spitzenkandidat amid emerging internal splits.
A European space law would bring benefits that would ripple outside EU borders, Rodrigo da Costa, executive director at the EU Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) said in an interview with Euractiv.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's recent visit to China is an example of a “do-it-alone” foreign policy approach which can only benefit the Middle Kingdom.
Our current European Diplomacy architecture is defined by its hybrid nature – a mosaic of temporary personnel loans, which mainly big Member States can afford, and Commission clerks educated in 27 different cultures of external action. In order to become more united and gain autonomy, this diplomacy needs to adapt to current geopolitical challenges. One first step in this direction could be my proposal for the creation of the European Diplomatic Academy.
On Wednesday (24 April), the European Parliament voted in favour of an amendment to the Plant Health Regulation, providing for the establishment of a European emergency team to prevent and contain the arrival of crop-damaging pests.
s decarbonisation compatible with industrial competitiveness? As the European elections approach fast, it will be one of the guiding questions of the upcoming EU institutional cycle.
Europe’s inland waterways are not ready for remote-controlled or autonomous vessels, according to inland navigation stakeholders who spoke to Euractiv at the Connecting Europe Days transportation conference in Brussels on April 2.
Cutting the EU regulatory burden could imply undercutting workers’ protections, Esther Lynch, head of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), warned in an interview with Euractiv.
