Budapest seeks to “offset” the court’s penalties by asking for compensation for a portion of the €2 billion it spent protecting the EU’s external borders.
The Scandinavian countries want the EU’s ideological weapon to be a “general feature in all areas of the EU budget.”
Zelensky’s ongoing power grab has prompted the EU to doubt the viability of the rule of law in Ukraine.
EU Commission weaponizes court rulings against sovereigntist governments, treats allies dismissively.
Moscow said it was ready to discuss only “serious proposals” that include keeping the occupied territories.
The results are described as a “wake-up call” for Petr Fiala’s center-right government before next year’s parliamentary elections.
Nothing in the treaties says the Commission president can reject a candidate before the parliamentary hearings, but that’s exactly what von der Leyen did.
The EU’s foreign affairs chief threatened Tbilisi by saying that failure to withdraw the law would “derail” the country’s accession process.
One MEP suggested a public campaign like the one after the Charlie Hebdo attack—with the motto “Io sono Matteo Salvini.”
As expected, the Patriots–the Parliament’s third largest party group—was completely passed over.
The Commission president continues to struggle with her self-inflicted gender woes.
Allowing Kyiv to strike Russian targets with long-range Western weaponry “will mean NATO countries, the United States, and European countries are fighting Russia,” the Russian president said.
