Category: EU Reporter

Transparency campaigners are demanding the European Commission launch a full investigation into Uber lobbyist and former commission vice-president Neelie Kroes.

The European Commission cut its 2022 forecast for eurozone growth largely due to Russia’s war in Ukraine. It now predicts growth of 2.6 percent this year for the 19-country currency area. This is slightly less than the 2.7 percent it had forecast in May. Inflation is also revising upwards and is projected to peak at […]

Due to a total capture of the country’s institutions and economy by corrupted ethno-nationalist elites, Bosnia & Herzegovina did not advance on key reform areas such as democratisation and improvement of the rule of law — arguably even backsliding.

Cyprus has charged four unnamed individuals with corruption offences linked to a passport-for-sale scheme which it abandoned in 2020 after an investigative report into abuse by Al Jazeera. Cyprus sold 6,779 national (and EU) passports between 2007 and 2020, the vast majority of them Russians, and some of them to people with criminal records.

The EU court in Luxembourg Thursday ruled against Italian plaintiffs who challenged the bloc’s decision to move the prestigious European Medicines Agency (EMA) from London to Amsterdam (instead of Milan) after Brexit. “The decisions of the representatives of the member states” on the EMA “are political acts without any binding legal effects, with the result […]

The EU ambassador in Myanmar is putting trade unionists’ lives at risk by publicly “denigrating” them, they say. Western activists agree. Brussels says: “No”.

Italy was plunged into fresh political turmoil on Thursday (14 July) as prime minister Mario Draghi announced his resignation after a key ally within his grand coalition government boycotted a parliamentary vote of confidence.

The EU Ombudsman said missing texts between European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and the boss of Pfizer are a “wake-up call” for all institutions about how they should handle work-related instant messages in the digital era.

Some 100 representatives of civil society organisations, including Transparency International EU and Oxfam, accuse German Green MEP Reinhard Bütikofer of disrespecting a moderator because she was a woman of colour and want him reprimanded.

Lawmakers in the industry committee in the European Parliament voted to increase some of the EU’s updated renewable energy directive targets.