Category: EU Reporter

Danes will vote in a general election on 1 November, social democrat prime minister Mette Frederiksen announced on Wednesday after her government lost majority in parliament over its decision to cull millions of mink during the Covid pandemic. Frederiksen has governed since 2019, supported by three left-leaning parties. Recent polls indicate a close race with […]

Slovenia’s parliament on Tuesday legalised same-sex marriage, becoming the first central European country to give gay couples the same rights as their heterosexual counterparts, AFP reported. The moves follows a Constitutional Court ruling from July that same-sex couples could legally marry and adopt children. The law passed with 48 votes in favour, 29 against and […]

The EU is giving Russia carte blanche to keep selling diamonds to Antwerp and the rest of Europe, despite grave escalation in Ukraine.

This ‘headscarf revolution’ is about women’s rights and human rights in general, plus police brutality. Moreover, it is a leaderless revolution that is not driven by a leader or a group, but erupted spontaneously.

The Schengen area is undoubtedly one of the EU’s greatest achievements. Unrestricted travel benefits millions of European citizens and businesses. But for Bulgaria and Romania, the EU has yet to make this borderless dream come true.

In the wake Germany’s giant €200bn energy plan EU Commissioners Paolo Gentiloni and Thierry Breton called for new pandemic-type loans to help less wealthy countries weather the energy crisis.

MEPs criticised the EU Commission for what they see as the executive not being tough enough on the government of Viktor Orbán, as Hungary’s parliament passed new legislation as part of a deal with the EU executive.

EU diplomats want European navies to stay in the volatile Gulf of Aden region for hard geopolitical reasons, as well as to see off pirates.

Russia’s caretaker EU ambassador, chargé d’affaires Kirill Logvinov, was summoned by the EU foreign service for a formal complaint about Ukraine annexations on Tuesday. Belgium, in April, had wanted to expel Logvinov on grounds he was a spy, but the EU foreign service requested for him to stay in Brussels, according to EUobserver’s sources. Logvinov […]

The Czech concept comprises an annual migration management report, a permanent EU migration support toolbox, an annual solidarity pool, and an EU migration forum.