Italy’s ruling coalition was left licking its wounds after a shock announcement to tax excess bank profits sent markets into a tailspin.
Since leaving high office and staying largely out of the limelight, Merkel has averaged €3,000 in cosmetic expenses per month.
European leaders are trying to match rhetoric with reality as many fear Ukraine would upturn established norms and may repeat the rule-of-law clashes seen with Poland and Hungary.
Kneissl left Austria in 2020, claiming her critical views of Ukraine had made her a political refugee.
Morawiecki blasted Manfred Weber for subverting Polish democracy over recent EU rule of law debates.
A hotly anticipated left-wing, anti-immigration party seems set to emerge as multiple MPs pledged support to Sahra Wagenknecht the past week and Die Linke entered crisis talks to avoid a schism.
Finland’s four-party coalition government is in jeopardy after a media campaign against senior Finns Party over past racist statements led junior members to consider withdrawing support.
Two former heads of Germany’s foreign intelligence wing BND warn that the agency was facing bureaucratic collapse.
Azeri’s leading diplomat in Brussels stirred the pot by tweeting an image of a sniper rifle at MEPs visiting the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Commission officials will travel to Beijing in September for crunch talks on EU-China relations as Europe’s annual trade deficit with China doubled to €400bn in two years.
With a new opinion poll showing PIS at just 5% among first-time voters, the governing party is totally outflanked by both the left and populist right among younger age cohorts.
EPP boss Manfred Weber is bothered by AfD’s right turn as parliamentary calculus draws conservatives and more moderate populists together in the European Parliament.
