The robot will help the cabinet with advice based on real-time public opinion screening on social media platforms, said Prime Minister Ciucă.

Ironically, the MEP had been involved in parliamentary work to combat violence against women only a month ago.

The European unification defined by the Franco-German alliance no longer offers the same ambition or attractive vision as it did when it began.

Financial incentives and long-term support could facilitate voluntary repatriation, Swedish Migration Minister Maria Stenergard believes.

Germany, Austria, Spain, and Luxembourg remain staunchly opposed to the use and expansion of nuclear power to achieve Europe’s ambitious energy goals.

During his first apostolic visit to the country, the pontiff will meet Prime Minister Orbán and President Novák as well.

A cross-partisan group of MEPs assembled to criticise the potential sabotage of the EU’s committee charged with examining the bloc’s COVID response, with Italian MEP Francesca Donato accusing Green groups of bowing down to corporate power.

The greenness of youth used to be viewed as a character defect, to be ironed out over time, on the basic human principle that, with experience, comes wisdom.

It was only when Delingpole brought up God and his recent turn to Christianity that Oliver didn’t seem to quite know what to do with himself. Oliver had assumed that he was attending an event for unhinged conspiracy theorists, but it turned out to be much weirder than that: the place was packed with Christians.

Ministers were canny, says journalist Toby Young, but it is the media that is at fault for failing to hold the government to account.

With anti-regime protests in Iran ongoing, hope for the opposition may come from the exiled son of Iran’s last king and his efforts to rally support.

It appears as though no amount of Western well-wishing will speed up any such accession process.