The Commission president insisted on selecting a female candidate—one alleged to have helped mastermind a major ‘cash-for-passports’ scandal years ago.
The plan has already led to a backlash from neighbors, while critics at home say it is too little too late.
Italian technocrat Mario Draghi says the EU needs the equivalent of three Marshall Plans—how would it get the money?
The Czech minister suggests using his own country to transport the gas.
Privacy lives to fight another day as compromise draft on monitoring messages is rejected.
Von der Leyen is set to create a fourth executive VP post just for Italy—to avoid offending her coalition allies by giving away one of their jobs to the ECR.
Ominous signs in its launch document evince sympathy for plant-based food, animal rights, and the ideology of sustainability.
Multiple residential buildings were destroyed in Lviv, just 60 kilometers from NATO borders.
Disillusioned by empty promises of EU integration, Turkey bets on the China-Russia-led economic bloc instead.
One country caved, but von der Leyen is still trying to get five others to change their picks to women.
“How should a society function in which biological realities and legal fictions come into such blatant contradiction?” one of the hosts asked.
The document written by former Italian PM Mario Draghi sketches out plan to build Europe’s own defense industrial complex.
