Russia started the evacuation of 18 settlements around the plant on Friday, May 5. Some observers fear the evacuations are not voluntary.

The MEPs chose to bypass normal voting procedures on boosting the bloc’s defense industry. Instead of negotiating for months, the decision on the €500 million in defense subsidies can now be taken by the end of the month.

“If Europe was aware of Chat Control, the debate would be tremendous,” Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer asserts in this interview about mass surveillance, fundamental rights, and how to effectively combat child sexual abuse online.

The power struggle at the Italian state broadcaster typifies a wider power struggle in national institutions as the Fratelli government seeks to secure its long-term survival.

The EU is attempting to use sustainability funding to influence developing nations against new fishing regulations that challenge European dominance of the tuna sector.

Ursula von der Leyen has also spoken in Kyiv about the EU’s continued support for Ukraine.

Russia will be defeated “as Nazism was” Zelensky declared in a speech on May 8th.

The French Minister of Agriculture stressed that the problem of drought was one that could affect the whole of Europe, even if Spain and Portugal are currently the main victims.

A German journalist claims video of climate protesters has been doctored to make an arrest look worse than it was.

Speaking to attendees, a consistent through-line may be identified in the visceral rejection of an elite project seeking to concentrate power through radical social atomization and the promotion of weak-souled hedonism.

For Washington, which has tried to oust President Assad since 2011, the development constitutes yet another foreign policy failure in the region.

Conservatives have long complained of the uselessness of the EPP. A potential break with the socialists would pose a massive hurdle for the European political centre ahead of the 2024 EU elections.