Category: EU Reporter

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.

French officials have raised the alarm over the eighth wave of the Covid-19 virus, as winter approaches, Reuters reported on Tuesday. “We are in this eighth wave,” said Brigitte Autran, a member of the government’s vaccination strategic board, pointing out that all indicators are up. The last figures showed an increase in the number of new […]

EU countries agreed on Tuesday to include Anguilla, Bahamas and Turks and Caicos in its blacklist of tax-havens, as reported by EUobserver. The three Caribbean countries were added because, according to the commission, they have failed to enforce the economic substance requirements that apply to zero-tax jurisdictions. American Samoa, Fiji, Guam, Palau, Panama, Samoa, Trinidad […]

The European Political Community (EPC) has been derided as a deceptive ploy to sideline the enlargement process, or simply a characteristically grandiose but vague proposal coming from the French. What should it be?

The days of pilling up obsolete chargers in drawers and groping around to find the correct one are coming to an end. MEPs adopted new rules forcing all phone manufacturers to offer a common charging solution by autumn 2024.

“[…] We were astonished that on election day, the high representative for Bosnia imposed significant further changes to the constitution,”German MEP Andreas Schieder, head of the European Parliament election observation delegation to Bosnia said on Monday.

After Russia’s mobilisation speech, the Czech Republic’s foreign ministry on Monday warned its citizens living in Russia that their embassy in Moscow cannot provide them “with adequate, full consular protection,” Reuters reported. “Citizens of the Czech Republic who also hold Russian citizenship should bear in mind that if they are on the territory of the […]