The European Union needs to draw a line between what is acceptable use of hacking tools by law enforcement and what is malicious use of spyware for political and corporate espionage and against journalists and civil society, the bloc’s Vice President Margaritis Schinas said Thursday. “We need some order, we need a framework, we need […]
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LONDON — The U.K. will continue not implementing post-Brexit checks on agri-food and other products entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain, it told the EU in a letter. The British government replied Thursday to European Commission action over alleged breaches of the Northern Ireland Protocol, a key part of the Brexit divorce deal regulating the arrival […]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin made a highly unexpected public admission on Thursday that China’s leader Xi Jinping had “questions” and “concerns” over the war in Ukraine. This acknowledgment of tensions with Beijing over the war is a dramatic reversal from February when, just before the invasion, Putin traveled to the Winter Olympics in China to […]
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BERLIN — Germany’s Porsche-driving finance minister is mounting a last-minute push to save the combustion engine, claiming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledged to make changes to incoming emissions legislation. Christian Lindner told POLITICO that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had reached a backroom deal with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in June […]
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Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Stitcher Acast Coming to you from Strasbourg, EU Confidential breaks down this week’s big EU moment: the State of the Union address delivered by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. And we convene a panel of MEPs to debate which policies hit the mark, […]
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Europe is trying to conserve energy in an effort to manage the crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For many places, that means turning off the lights. Several regions of Germany, one of the EU members most reliant on imports of Russian gas, are scrambling to come up with solutions to reduce consumption — […]
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The European Parliament agreed on higher renewable and energy-saving targets for energy consumption in the EU — amid an energy crisis which has prompted the EU to put forward unprecedented measures to curb high energy prices.
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Tiny Kox, the Dutch head of a venerable watchdog on European democracy, has denied being a Kremlin fixer after one Russian spy described him as a top contact in leaked files.
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Swedish centre-left prime minister Magdalena Andersson has pledged to resign Thursday, after vote counting from last Sunday’s election saw a right-wing bloc including a party with Nazi roots narrowly win. The right-wingers got 176 seats out of 349 with 99 percent of the votes counted. The bloc’s Sweden Democrats party has Nazi roots and used […]
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The overwhelming majority of European parliament lawmakers have supported a resolution saying Hungary is no longer a full democracy. 433 MEPs on Thursday voted in favour, 123 against and 28 abstentions. The resolution notes that lack of decisive EU action has contributed to the emergence of a “hybrid regime of electoral autocracy”. It condemns the […]
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