Category: EU Reporter

Irish taoiseach Michael Martin has urged outgoing British prime minister Boris Johnson to rethink plans by the British government to override the protocol governing Northern Irish trade under Brexit. Martin said London-Dublin relations had been “strained and challenged” and urged a “pulling back from unilateral action, whether that be on dealing with the legacy of […]

The European Parliament has called to include the right to legal and safe abortion into the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, following the critical ruling overturning abortion rights in the US.

The European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions’ Summer Days 2022 two days of debates saw key messages on how the green and digital transitions must be worker-centred.

#Belgium is reopening its embassy in #Kyiv on Monday, its foreign ministry told EUobserver, but consular matters will still be handled by staff who had relocated to Poland. Belgium closed its embassy on 1 March one week after Russia’s invasion. Kyiv is still sometimes being hit by Russian missiles, but with fighting now concentrated in […]

European lawmakers from across different political factions sought to distance or deny any links to the Kremlin regime in a Strasbourg debate on Russian influence.

Danish ministers and officials are no longer allowed to delete work-related text messages on service phones, under new guidelines presented by justice minister Mattias Tesfaye on Thursday. To date, text messages were not stored centrally, as is the case for emails. The loss of text messages exchanged between EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen […]

British prime minister Boris Johnson has resigned as Conservative party leader, starting a race among Conservative MPs to replace him as prime minister but leaving a range of issues — Brexit, Northern Ireland, and Scottish independence — for his successor.

British prime minister Boris Johnson will resign later on Thursday, according to the BBC, with a Downing Street spokesman saying Johnson will make an “address to the country” later in the day. Johnson has been hit by dozens of ministerial resignations within 48 hours, following his handling of sexual assault allegations against a Conservative MP, […]

The General Court of the European Union ruled against Catalan MEPs Carles Puigdemont and Toni Comín in their case against the European Parliament. It links back to 2019 when the then president of the parliament refused to recognised them as MEPs, given their names were not listed as elected MEPs by Madrid. The court said […]

The EU’s border police Europol said 39 arrests have been made in a migrant-smuggling network. “This criminal group is suspected of smuggling Middle-Eastern and East African irregular migrants from France to the UK with the use of small boats,” said Europol, in a statement. The network was taken down by police from Belgium, France, Germany, […]