Category: EU Reporter

Carlos Lesmes, the president of Spain’s National Council for the Judiciary, said he would step down on Monday, carrying out his previous threats. His resignation comes after intense disputes over the renewal of the council, which has been exercising its functions on a temporary basis since December 2018. “Staying in the post from now on […]

The EU is calling for “dialogue” with Russia in a draft UN resolution on Ukraine, in a bid to stop creeping war-fatigue amid non-aligned states

The mood in London in ruling political, financial, and opinion-forming circles is that the steam is going out of the Brexit balloon. Brexit is now seen as a bore, replete with negatives for economic, scientific and civil society.

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, a leader of the democratic forces in Belarus, is expected to address MEPs, while lawmakers will narrow down the finalists for this year’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

Citizen panels can contribute to what the European Union has lacked for so long: a European public sphere. Democracy requires democratic debate.

The roundup of articles you should not have missed this week.

Putin’s energy war put European solidarity to the test at Friday’s meeting of EU leaders in Prague, as some countries have been better able to shield households and businesses from energy inflation than others.

EU leaders are expected to come back to the issue of gas price caps at their usual summit in Brussels on 20 and 21 October — when an agreement could be reached by the 27 heads of state and government.

US president Joe Biden on signed Friday an executive order to protect personal data transfers between the EU and the US — in response to the European court’s concerns regarding surveillance. In 2020, the European Court of Justice ruled that the so-called Privacy Shield was invalid because it failed to protect Europeans’ personal data. Its predecessor, […]

Frontex says it will not comment on the content of investigation carried out by the EU’s anti-fraud office Olaf — but acknowledges that its new leadership has read the report. And it denies any wrongdoing of its operations in Greece.