Browsing: European Commission

The United Kingdom will study its entry into a paneuro commercial treaty following new talks with the EU commision to…

Spanish politics in 2025 is going to need some radical improvements, especially after the outcry of Valencia flooding; its showed…

The EU has issued an updated list of airlines considered unsafe and banned from flying in the EU. The latest…

After an intense day at the first Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Council (EPSCO) of the new European Commission.…

Headed again by the German Ursula von der Leyen and with Teresa Ribera as the Spanish representative, the new European…

After many tensions, reproaches and power games, finally, the plenary session of the European Parliament gave the green light this…

The European Commission has proposed a new digital portal that will make it easier for companies to temporarily send workers…

The 2023 wildfire season ranks among the EU’s worst in over two decades, fuelled by climate change. Fires devastated vast…

“Forget the soothing diplomatic tones from Dublin – justice is a portfolio nobody wanted. Justice means guaranteed (and often personalised) conflict with states such as Hungary and Slovakia. … The reality is that in a decade Ireland has gone from holding agriculture and rural development (a third of the EU budget), to trade (the crown jewel of the EU’s competencies) via financial services (stripped of the important bits) to the thankless task of policing wannabe European dictators under a ‘democracy shield’.”

“The post-fascist has managed to place one of her loyal followers, Raffaele Fitto, in one of the most influential posts in the Commission. He will become vice-president and commissioner for cohesion and reforms. This means he will be responsible for the European Social Fund and a fund for regional development, among other things. Meloni is over the moon about this decision, as it secures her additional power and influence in Brussels. However with this appointment, Ursula von der Leyen has lodged a political time bomb in her own Commission. Many members of the European Parliament are quite rightly appalled and have announced their opposition to the far-right Italian.”