The European powers are working on a UN proposal.
Candidates of CDU, SPD and the Greens took part in the first debate before the election.
Since the beginning of the year, some 14,000 migrants have been stopped at the Bulgarian border.
Michel Barnier plans to stand as a right-wing candidate againt President Macron.
Poland and Latvia have refused to allow the migrants from Belarus to cross their borders.
EU Commission dismisses the European Parliament’s call for action.
This is the first time that the SPD is ahead of the CDU/CSU since October 2006.
Washington rejected the extension of the deadline.
Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 after a military invasion.
The British prime minister is to urge world leaders to step up support for refugees fleeing the Taliban in Afghanistan when he chairs a virtual G7 meeting later.
“We agree with the Americans that gas should not be used as a geopolitical weapon,” the German chancellor said.
Swedish prime minister Stefan Löfven said he would resign in November.
Iraq and the Sahel could be the next crisis regions.
Campaigners launched a petition for a referendum on the issue.
“We are deeply worried about Afghan women and girls, their rights to education, work and freedom of movement,” read the statement.
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said: “We are experiencing a human tragedy for which we share responsibility.”
Lithuania said: “We cannot tolerate this bold provocation.”
Poland’s ambassador to Israel has been recalled until further notice, the foreign ministry said.
EU foreign ministers hold emergency talks via videolink Tuesday on the situation in Afghanistan.
The new Polish law would make it much harder to get back confiscated property.
After the sudden collapse of the Afghan government, Western countries try to evacuate their people from the country.
Angela Merkel will step in to help conservative Armin Laschet in his bid to succeed her as German chancellor as he sinks in the polls.
Latvian border guards turned back dozens of migrants into Belarus overnight.
France’s interior minister reported that a priest was murdered in a small town in western France on Monday, August 9th. Gérald Darmanin wrote on Twitter: “All my support to the Catholics of our country after the dramatic assassination of a priest in Vendée. I am going to the scene,” he said. According to reports, the suspect is […]
The controversial article analyzed the existence of the “Lavender Mafia” in the Church.
The Chinese embassy in Sri Lanka complained on Sunday against the use of an “ugly” photograph of a Chinese Olympic weightlifter by Reuters news service. But the Chinese embassy in Sri Lanka tweeted a complaint: “Don’t put politics and ideologies above sports, and call yourself an unbiased media organization. Shameless. Respect the spirit of #Olympics.” […]
The U.S. says a deal has been reached with Germany to prevent Russian gas from being used as political leverage by Moscow over Europe in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, EUobserver reports. The near-complete 1,230 km (764 miles) pipeline under the Baltic Sea will double Russian gas exports to Germany. U.S. official Victoria Nuland […]
The European Commission has decided to launch an investigation on the Pegasus Project. An investigative consortium formed by Forbidden Stories, Amnesty International and 17 media organisations revealed on Sunday that at least 10 governments had allegedly employed military spyware for illegal surveillance of journalists, lawyers, businessmen and members of civil society, Euractiv.com reports. “We are […]
Two German firms were fine to ban Muslim women from wearing headscarves, the EU court has said. “A prohibition on wearing any visible form of expression of political, philosophical, or religious beliefs in the workplace may be justified by the employer’s need to present a neutral image towards customers or to prevent social disputes,” the […]
Regions in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Austria were hit hard. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday that she was horrified by the “surreal” devastation in the flood-ravaged region of German. Merkel walked through the village of Schuld in Rhineland-Palatinate state, one of the two hardest-hit regions in western Germany. “It is a surreal, […]
US President Joe Biden met German chancellor Angela Merkel in Washington. “We stand together and will continue to stand together to defend our eastern flank allies at Nato against Russian aggression,” US president Joe Biden told press while meeting German chancellor Angela Merkel in Washington on Thursday, in their first bilateral summit, EUobserver reports. “Good […]
The European Commission launched three proceedings against Hungary and Poland over what it sees as violations of fundamental rights of LGBTIQ+ people, leaving Budapest and Warsaw two months to respond to its concerns, Euractiv.com reports. The Commission said it considers Budapest’s new controversial legislative bans on “promoting or portraying” homosexuality or sex reassignment to minors […]
The European Commission reviewed the EU’s energy and climate law, aiming to cut carbon emissions by 55% before the end of the decade and initiate a decisive break away from fossil fuels. At the centre of the reform is a review of the bloc’s carbon market, the emissions trading scheme (EU ETS), which puts a […]
Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal said the EU’s top court has no authority to impose an injunction on its legal reforms. The EU court in 2020, had ordered Poland to suspend a new judicial disciplinary chamber, citing political reasons. The EU court repeated its appeal for Poland to obey in a statement by its vice-president on Wednesday […]
President Emmanuel Macron called for a “summer of mobilisation” in France, announcing the mandatory vaccination for healthcare workers. “If the health situation remains under control for the moment, only a massive vaccination campaign will be able to prevent a new wave of hospitalisations as soon as August and new restrictive measures,” French president Emmanuel Macron […]
EU deploys border force in Lithuania as Belarus allows migrants to cross into the Baltic country. The EU’s border protection agency on Monday said it was mobilizing a rapid intervention force to Lithuania, where the government has accused neighboring Belarus of allowing hundreds of migrants to cross illegally into the country, Politicio.eu reports. “It seems […]
Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections failed to produce a clear winner on Sunday. The new anti-elite party There Is Such a People (ITN) got almost as much votes, as the centre-right GERB party of former premier Boyko Borissov. Bulgaria’s second election since April reflects deep divisions in the European Union’s poorest member state over the legacy of […]
Moldova’s president Maia Sandu’s party won the Eastern European country’s parliamentary election on Sunday. The president’s party gained enough parliamentary seats to ensure the country’s pro-Russian opposition cannot obstruct the broad reformist agenda that won her the presidency in November last year, Euronews reports. Sandu said that she hoped the result would mark “the end […]
Slovenia’s Prime Minister Janez Janša has told the country’s parliament that the EU must come up with strategic answers to strategic challenges, working both on its soft and hard power to become a major player regionally and globally. As Euractiv.com quotes Janša, the bloc has for years been dealing mainly with the consequences of a […]
Once prime minister of Poland, then president of the European Council, and later the leader of the European People’s Party, Donald Tusk is now back in Polish politics. “I’m back in 100 percent,” he told a congress of Civic Platform (PO), the conservative-liberal party he founded in 2001. Donald Tusk is now the head of […]
Parties from 16 EU countries, including Frances’ Rassemblement National, Poland’s PiS, Hungary’s Fidesz, and Italy’s Lega, united on 2 July with the objective of making their voice heard in the debate on the future of Europe. The leaders of the European conservative and right-wing parties signed simultaneously in several European capitals a document calling for […]
