The European Commission confirmed this week that negotiations for a new fisheries agreement have not yet commenced, but any deal is likely to stir the pot on the question of Western Saharan sovereignty and Morocco’s meddling in Spain and the European Parliament.
Pegasus, Catalonia, and recent vote rigging scandals have fueled an atmosphere of distrust in the electoral process. Most polls predict a comfortable victory for the Right in this week’s Spanish parliamentary elections.
Despite being lauded in Europe as essential to the green transition, new EU carbon tariffs have evoked considerable anger in the Global South and stirred fears that the tariffs will destroy national steel industries and direct more countries into the arms of China.
The EU Commission’s investment in translations of the author’s extensive travel diaries—and the discovery of previously unknown audio recordings—may indicate a major shift in the reception of this conservative philosopher is underway.
The EU has become fully reliant on Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, to get its satellites into orbit, while its regulators hope to bring the hammer down on Musk this month over hate speech regulation on Twitter.
Stockholm is hoping to make amends for runaway asylum numbers over the past decade by revamping rules on family reunification in another sign of the Swedish Democrats’ influence on policy.
Edwards was hospitalised on mental health grounds after he was named as paying a teenage drug addict for sexually explicit pics with the scandal sparking a media spat over UK privacy laws and the future of the BBC.
The Partido Popular is solidifying its lead in the final ten-day stretch of the campaign, despite socialist accusations warning that a coalition between conservatives and VOX will revive Francoism.
Recent protests in the Netherlands could just be the first firing shot in a wave of discontent after the European Parliament passed the Nature Restoration Law yesterday, despite conservative warnings that it would play into the hands of populists.
The defeat seriously undermines EPP President Manfred Weber and calls into question future alliances for the EPP after the European elections in 2024.
CDU Friedrich Merz conducted some political spring cleaning this week as he removed a former Merkel loyalist from the party’s ruling committee in favour of a conservative alternative as the German conservatives ponder the rise of the AfD.
The Act cleared Parliament with near-unanimous support, although many lament that the Chips Act is too little, too late and that Brussels should have no role in setting industrial policy for the entire union on such a vital issue.
