Six weeks after the parliamentary elections there is still no sign of a new government in Italy. Talks led by the speaker of the Senate, Elisabetta Casellati, also seem likely to end without any results today, Friday. The main sticking point is that the Movimento Cinque Stelle is only willing to form a coalition with the Lega Nord if the latter ends its alliance with Silvio Berlusconi and his Forza Italia party. What will become of the voters' hopes of a fresh start?
Following huge tensions in the UN Security Council in particular regarding the Syrian war, the diplomats of 15 member states have convened today Friday for a weekend of informal talks in a country house in southern Sweden. The General Secretary António Guterres will also be in attendance. Just how important is the work of the United Nations these days?
The Cuban parliament has elected the former Vice-President Miguel Díaz-Canel to take over from 86-year-old President Raúl Castro, who stepped down on Thursday. In 2006 he took over government duties from his ailing brother Fidel Castro, who died in 2016. What opportunities will the new leadership bring?
DRAFT OPINION on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council providing further macro-financial assistance to Ukraine Committee on Foreign Affairs Michael Gahler
President Donald Tusk presented to the European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg the outcome of the European Council meetings on 22 and 23 March 2018
G7 Leaders adopted a joint statement to condemn the use of chemical weapons in the April 7 attack in Eastern Ghouta, Syria and to support the action of the United States, the United Kingdom and France on April 13 to degrade the Assad regime’s ability to use them.