The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), headed by Laura Coveschi, will start operating on Tuesday without Bulgaria having the required 10 delegated prosecutors mandated to work on major fraud cases related to EU funds at the domestic level. Seven of...
Slovakia’s neighbours will accept the bilingual vaccination certificates Slovakia started issuing on 22 May. However, Austria will only accept certificates on vaccines registered by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and World Health Organisation (WHO). “I’m glad that we’ve had initial...
Hungary’s one-time far-right party, Jobbik, is supporting European federalist social-democratic candidates in Budapest and elsewhere, in a move suggesting that the opposition is following through on its promise to cooperate in the run-up to next year’s general elections in the...
Czechia is “squeezing” EU funds and wrongfully presents itself as a “poor state”, Czech economist and member of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) Petr Zahradník told EURACTIV Czechia, adding that “EU funds are perceived as an ATM to...
“I will propose that the green pass would be used not only with European countries but also with non-EU ones such as Japan, the United States or Canada”, Italy’s Health Minister Roberto Speranza said in a TV interview on Sunday....
Green politicians and conservationists say Finnish Prime Sanna Marin and her Swedish counterpart, Stefan Löfven betrayed their green commitments for embarking on a lobbying crusade in Brussels. Particularly controversial has been a joint letter sent by the leaders defending the...
Austria’s Green party has attacked its coalition partner, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s ÖVP party, for actions it says seek to undermine the judiciary. “The permanent insinuation that the judiciary would act politically has to be rejected. The ÖVP is continuously trying...
The decision to vaccinate children is not a political decision, but an evidence-based scientific decision, a European Commission official told EURACTIV. “The establishment and implementation of vaccination strategies is a member state competence. This includes the decision to vaccinate children....
Italy’s League leader Matteo Salvini has proposed to create a new political force in the European Parliament that would bring together his EU political group Identity and Democracy (ID), the EU political group of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS)...
Increased recycling has come at the expense of greener activities like reuse. The European Union now needs to adopt a multidimensional approach to tackle Europe's waste problem and move towards circularity, writes Joan Marc Simon.
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has used a partnership with Denmark's foreign intelligence unit to spy on senior officials of neighbouring countries, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to Danish state broadcaster DR.
German Health Minister Jens Spahn and his counterparts in the 16 federal states will on Monday morning (1 June) discuss control mechanisms for coronavirus test centers following fraud accusations, a ministry spokesman said on Sunday.
Turkish foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu prompted Greek rebukes after visiting the Thrace region in Greece on Sunday, where he met Muslim leaders, and spoke of a "Turkish" ethnic "minority" there. "Turkey's constant attempts to distort this reality, as well as the allegations of alleged non-protection of the rights of these citizens ... are rejected," the Greek foreign ministry, which considers the Thrace minority a religious not an ethnic group, said.
Cypriots voted Sunday (30 May) in parliamentary elections amid simmering public anger over the "golden passports" corruption scandal on the Mediterranean island.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is considering granting pardon by the end of June for a group of Catalan separatists jailed for their involvement in holding an illegal independence referendum in 2017, Spanish media has reported.
Denmark's Defence Intelligence Service helped the US National Security Agency (NSA) to get phone details of top French, German, Norwegian, and Swedish officials by giving it access to Danish internet cables, Danmarks Radio revealed Sunday. The 2012-2014 NSA operation targeted German chancellor Angela Merkel and then foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. US whistleblower Edward Snowden also said, in 2013, that the NSA had tapped Merkel's telephone.
More than 1,000 people protested against mask-wearing and vaccines in Brussels Saturday. Some in the same crowd also came out in support of Jürgen Conings, an extreme-right Belgian soldier who went on the run after threatening an attack. The crowd first gathered near the Bois de la Cambre park, then marched toward EU institutions. Things remained mostly calm, but police dispersed demonstrators by firing tear gas near the Schuman roundabout.
Ireland will end 14-day quarantines for British, EU, and US visitors from 19 July and reopen bar and restaurant interiors from 5 July, easing one of the strictest lockdown regimes in Europe, it said Friday. Restaurants will also reopen in the Netherlands on 5 June, as will museums, theatres, and cinemas. "This is actually the end of the lockdown," Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte said at the weekend.
"Radical Islamism in Mali with our soldiers there? Never," French president Emmanuel Macron told the Journal du Dimanche newspaper. "There is this temptation today in Mali. But if it goes in that direction, I will withdraw," he said on Sunday, speaking after another recent coup in Bamako. Mali is at the heart of France's anti-jihadist Sahel operation, which involves 5,000 troops also in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania, and Niger.
Elem, a Cypriot far-right party affiliated with the now-illegal neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party in Greece, doubled its share of the vote in Cyprus elections on Sunday. The ruling centre-right Dysi party and left-wing opposition Akel parties came top, with 28 percent and 22 percent, respectively. But Elem came fourth with 6.8 percent in an election dominated by government corruption scandals and xenophobia over increasing numbers of migrant arrivals.
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