Category: EU Reporter

The European Central Bank (ECB) has increased its key interest rate by 0.5 percentage points, to 0.0 percent, for the first time in more than 11 years as it tries to control soaring eurozone inflation. The rate has been negative since 2014 to boost the region’s economy. However, inflation rose at a record 8.6 percent […]

Kyiv is talking to major international financial institutions about reducing debt payments, Reuters reported. Ukraine this week asked its international creditors, including Western powers and the largest investment firms, to freeze payments for two years so it could focus on the war with Russia, which Western funds and governments backed. Ukraine estimates the costs of […]

Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán is facing one of his biggest challenges of his more than a decade-long rule, as the economic pressures keep mounting, and EU funds remain suspended due to rule-of-law concerns.

The West must help Ukraine to defeat Russia in order to deter China from invading Taiwan, Britain’s intelligence chief has said.

A legal battle between locals on the one hand and the state and the labour youth organisation on the other side postponed the inception of the memorial in remembrance of the victims of Anders Behring Breivik.

In a world of profound changes, we believe that healthy and stable China-EU relations, especially in the economic and trade realm, can help counter the uncertainty on the global economic stage, and are conducive to global development and prosperity.

The EU Commission has drastically cut its Covid-vaccine order from French firm Valneva from 60m doses to 1.25m, amid slowing demand in EU countries, where many vaccination programmes have matured, Reuters reports. The French vaccine had faced drawn-out delays by the EU regulator, the European Medicines Agency, ultimately seeing it miss out on the European […]

Local councillors in the Slovak village of Varin have caused outrage by declining requests from central authorities to rename a street which honours Slovakia’s WW2-era fascist leader Monsignor Jozef Tiso. Just one councillor voted to rename ‘Tisova’ street, meaning the case will end up in courts. Tiso led Slovakia as a Nazi vassal between 1939 […]

The internal Conservative race to replace Boris Johnson as party leader and thus British prime minister has been narrowed down to two final candidates — former finance minister Rishi Sunak, and current foreign secretary, Liz Truss. The pair will now spend the summer campaigning to win the votes of the party’s approximate 140,00-200,000 members, with […]

Polish rule-of-law anomalies mean it shouldn’t get EU pandemic recovery funds until further reforms are made, MEPs said after visiting Warsaw this week. “It seems that there are systemic problems caused by the government that prevent Poland from meeting all conditions for receiving the EU money,” German conservative MEP Monika Hohlmeier said. “There are signs […]