It was always hard to pursue national interests with respect to common EU foreign policy. Some countries would like to make it impossible.
Tunisian President Saied said he won’t be the EU’s border guard; Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled one billion reasons to change his mind.
Bearing gifts and promises, Trudeau arrived unannounced in Kyiv to become the 20th NATO leader to officially support Ukraine’s NATO membership bid, “as soon as the conditions allow.”
“We cannot allow Russia to achieve its military objectives,” the Hungarian President said, while the country was among the first to deliver humanitarian aid to flood victims of the Kakhovka dam explosion.
“Brussels is abusing its power,” PM Viktor Orbán said after the migrant redistribution scheme was pushed through by the majority. Poland and Hungary voted against it, while five other member states abstained.
The EU’s new ethics body to oversee corruption in Brussels “will not be toothless,” Commission VP Jourová promised, before having to admit that the agency won’t have real authority to hold Eurocrats accountable.
Medical personnel “literally approach everyone who may qualify for MAiD and ask them if they want to die,” the director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition said to explain the steep rise in numbers.
The opposition might be futile, however, as Central Europe will not be able to veto the package, Commissioner Johansson reminded the dissenting countries.
Details of the leaked plan align surprisingly well with the evidence produced by previous investigations, strongly pointing at Kyiv as the mastermind behind the sabotage. The U.S. knew but couldn’t, or wouldn’t, prevent it.
The green pass is just the first of many products of the new Global Digital Health Certification Network. “Forget dystopias by Orwell OR Huxley: Make it a dystopia by “Huxwell,” MEP Christine Anderson wrote.
“Twitter has chosen the hard way, they chose confrontation,” Commission VP Věra Jourová said, promising vigorous enforcement of EU law and a hefty penalty if Twitter’s compliance is deemed insufficient.
Over 16 thousand people are in need of evacuation from the “critical zone” on the Ukrainian-controlled bank, as Kyiv accuses Russia of “ecocide” to stall the counter-offensive.
