Category: EU Reporter

In 2016, it was revealed former EU commission vice-president Neelie Kroes failed to disclose her role in an offshore company. Now, she is engulfed in controversy once again over Uber.

EU home affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson announced a hub in Moldova to battle organized crime, particularly arms smuggling from war-torn Ukraine. The hub will be a “one-stop-shop” allowing the EU’s border guard agency Frontex to support local border agencies.

Speaking at arrival of a meeting of EU finance ministers, Dutch finance minister Sigrid Kaag said inflation will drive down standard of living across the continent. “We have to realise we will become collectively poorer,” she said. “We have to take care of vulnerable households, but we can not keep compensating. It is financially unsustainable”. […]

Ariane is a former business centre in Brussels converted into a temporary shelter run by the Flemish Red Cross. Almost 1,000 Ukrainians now reside at the centre, a record high. Some have been there 50 days.

The Kremlin’s isolation, and Beijing’s tacit endorsement of its unprovoked aggression, has changed the EU’s calculations.

The European Commission will unveil its rule-of-law audit of all EU member states this week. Meanwhile, several ministers from the Czech Republic will present to EU lawmakers the priorities of the rotating EU Council presidency for the next six months.

The European Commission and Morocco said they would worker closer together to fight migrant smuggling, following the tragic events in the Spanish enclave of Melilla where over 20 died trying to scale its fences. “We stand ready to deepen our cooperation,” said EU home affairs commissioner, Ylva Johansson, in Rabat on Friday. Johansson had met […]

US secretary of state Antony Blinken and EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell have urged Skopje to accept a compromise deal in its row on history and language with Bulgaria. The deal was “based on mutual respect, trust, and understanding” and would allow North Macedonia to open EU accession talks. “The sovereign decision of the […]

Nine Tory politicians have declared they want to be the next prime minister, in a leadership contest to be decided by September. The list includes junior trade minister Penny Mordaunt, transport Secretary Grant Shapps, finance minister Nadhim Zahawi and former ministers Jeremy Hunt, Sajid Javid, and Rishi Sunak. Foreign secretary Liz Truss is also expected […]

Dutch politician Neelie Kroes was in talks to work for US transport firm Uber even before she left her EU job as digital and competition commissioner, according to internal files leaked to The Guardian newspaper. She also lobbied the Dutch government on behalf of the firm in 2015, before her 18-month cooling off period had […]