Category: EuroActiv

Edi Rama is the prime minister of Albania. Mark Rutte is prime minister of the Netherlands. As Russia launched its brutal invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Europe suddenly awoke realizing peace on the Continent is not guaranteed. This unprecedented and unjustified war is an attack on the international legal order, and as such, it […]

Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice and the author of POLITICO’s Beyond the Bubble column. He tweets at @Mij_Europe. While it’s still foolish to even think of a future British return to the European Union and the European institutions, something very interesting is happening in relations between British Prime Minister Liz […]

Hans Kribbe is an author and founding partner at Shearwater Global. Luuk van Middelaar, political theorist, is an author and professor of EU law at Leiden University. Seven months into Russia’s war against Ukraine, deep uncertainties remain as to its outcome. However, one strategic challenge has become unmistakably clear — Russia and Europe are destined […]

Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s blinkered focus on German rather than EU priorities in the energy crisis is blowing up on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, whose all-important French and Italian commissioners are now breaking ranks to cry foul about Berlin’s behavior. Facing heavy pressure from industry and consumers — and voters in regional elections […]

The writers of “Borgen” could not have come up with a better plot line. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is expected to call for a general election this week after being politically blackmailed by a one-time ally over her role in the country’s botched mink cull in 2020. Frederiksen, who leads a Social Democrat minority […]

Twitter has accepted Elon Musk’s renewed offer to buy the platform for $44 billion after Musk said he would go ahead with the deal in an SEC filing on Monday. And he’s back: In the latest in the on-again, off-again saga on the future of Twitter, the Tesla CEO committed to proceeding with his initial offer […]

At least one person likes Liz Truss’ tax-cutting agenda. Unfortunately for her, it’s Donald Trump. The controversial former U.S. president weighed into the debate over the new British Prime Minister’s ill-fated fiscal plan Tuesday, telling GB News that Truss is a “very good” politician and predicting she would prove her critics wrong on taxes. “I […]

EU ambassadors reached an outline agreement on new sanctions to hit Vladimir Putin’s war with Ukraine, including a price cap on Russian oil sales, according to seven European diplomats. The package, which is the 8th round against Moscow, was proposed by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen last week, after the Russian president threatened […]

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Tuesday the topic of reparations for the wartime occupation of Poland is “closed from the perspective of the German government.” Speaking in Warsaw at a joint press conference with her Polish counterpart Zbigniew Rau, Baerbock said, however, that Germany stands by its historical responsibilities “without ifs and buts.” A […]

High-ranking European Parliament members clashed on Twitter late on Monday after a Greek left-wing lawmaker posted a draft program of the chamber’s inquiry committee’s visit to Greece later this year. The European Parliament launched a committee to investigate the use of Pegasus and similar spyware in Europe (PEGA). The group of lawmakers is planning to […]