Category: EU Reporter

Sweden and Finland are counting on further talks with Turkey to unlock their Nato accession, as Western diplomats wonder what Ankara really wants.

The German government has put the German subsidiary of Russian oil giant Rosneft under trusteeship. Germany will eliminate all oil imports from Russia and to ensure the refinery, one of Germany’s largest, can continue operations in the winter without disruption, the majority owned Russian company has been taken over. “With the trusteeship, the threat to […]

A report on Russian spying at the Council of Europe doesn’t present the slightest evidence for the far-reaching allegations it makes, the Council’s parliamentary president, Tiny Kox says.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Russian president Vladimir Putin thanked Chinese president Xi Jinping for his “balanced position” on the Ukraine “crisis” in Uzbekistan Thursday in what was their first meeting since the war. Putin also backed China’s claim to Taiwan and condemned US “provocations” in support of its independence. The meeting is being closely watched by Western diplomats after […]

Ursula von der Leyen barely noticed that European democracy is under attack not only from external threats, but from within. Two of the world’s leading autocratic countries are EU member states.

Polish government authorities snubbed a European Parliament probe into spyware Pegasus by refusing to show up to an inquiry on Thursday.