Category: EU Reporter

Adapting Europe’s energy grid to a system largely run on renewable power will cost €584bn between now and 2030, according to a leaked EU Commission document seen by news agency Reuters. The commission is set to publish an action plan to build smart grids able to respond faster to intermittent local-supply fluctuations associated with wind […]

A Special Tribunal on Russian war crimes in Ukraine must be convened, because no permanent or existing international judicial institution is endowed with jurisdiction over Russian high-ranking officials, writes the head of the Ukraine delegation to the Council of Europe.

Some 6,470 Russians arrived in Finland across the land border on Thursday, according to figures posted by the Finnish border guards.”Incoming traffic is now greater than outgoing traffic,” it said. This compares to over 4,800 on Wednesday, the same day Russia’s president Vladimir Putin announced a plan to draft some 300,000 Russians to fight in […]

EU diplomats are having to be ever-more creative in finding Russians to blacklist, after already designating 1,206 names.

Italy’s economy depends a lot on the recovery fund, and on the bond buying scheme of the European Central Bank, and Meloni is ulikely torisk it for a “freedom fight” against the EU.

Finland says there has not yet been a dramatic increase in Russian nationals trying to enter Finland from Russia, noting just over 4,800 Russian nationals crossed the land border on the day of Vladimir Putin’s announcement of the draft.

While in 2015 the top-declaring companies spent roughly €90m between them on lobbying the EU, this figure increased to almost €120 million in 2022.

France has increased projected public expenditure for 2023 with another €7.5bn compared to the last draft in August.

With Italy heading to the ballot boxes this Sunday, let’s take a look at what EUobserver has published that can help understand the country’s swing to the (far)-right.

Should Georgia Meloni be considered neofascist? She insists she’s a patriotic conservative. And indeed, if she’s prime minister, she’s expected to respect Italy’s democracy — if only to keep money flowing from the EU.