Category: EuroActiv

The EU needs to pick up the pace on its financial aid for Ukraine. That’s the message from Kyiv as the European Union today signed a memorandum of understanding to deliver €5 billion in long-term loans to the war-torn country. The loan is the second tranche of a €9 billion package that was announced in […]

BIRMINGHAM, England — Britain can’t say it wasn’t warned. The U.K.’s new prime minister used to be a center-left Liberal Democrat. Now she’s a Thatcherite Tory. In 2016, she campaigned to stop Britain leaving the EU. Now she’s a diehard Brexiteer who’s not even sure if neighboring France is ‘friend or foe’. And the shifts […]

Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng junked a plan to cut taxes for high earners after a backlash from financial markets and his own Conservative Party colleagues that plunged the country into an economic crisis. “We get it, and we have listened,” Kwarteng said as he announced the dramatic U-turn on Twitter on Monday. […]

Elisabeth Braw is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she focuses on defense against emerging national security challenges. Russian President Vladimir Putin may well succeed in mobilizing the 300,000 reservists he says he needs for the war in Ukraine — but since his announcement, some 360,000 men have already traveled to Georgia and […]

BIRMINGHAM, England — It was one of the most famous quotes from one of the hardest-fought political campaigns Britain has ever seen. “I think the people in this country have had enough of experts,” U.K. Cabinet Minister Michael Gove told the journalist Faisal Islam on primetime TV, shortly before the EU referendum. His remarks were […]

LONDON — India is driving a hard bargain as Britain’s crisis-hit government tries to get a coveted trade deal over the line within weeks. Prime Minister Liz Truss, whose fledgling administration could do with a break amid market turmoil and plunging poll ratings, has ordered her trade chief to hold fast to an October 24 […]

Giorgia Meloni and her Brothers of Italy party emerged as the clear winners in the September 25 elections, putting her on course to form a new coalition at a fraught time for the country’s economy. With a splintered opposition, analysts predict she could stay the course longer than many of Italy’s notoriously short-lived administrations. But […]

European far-right politicians just stormed to victory in Italy, after achieving historic results in France and Sweden. “Everywhere in Europe, people aspire to take their destiny back into their own hands!” said Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right National Rally Party.  But if you think there is a new wave of right-wing radicalism […]

Latvia’s national election on Saturday was won by the New Unity party of Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš, according to provisional results. The center-right New Unity party captured 19 percent of the vote, the provisional results showed, followed by the Union of Greens and Farmers with 12.4 percent and the United List with 11 percent. The […]

Former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov looks set to win Bulgaria’s election on Sunday night, but it is still highly unclear whether the tarnished former karate champion can form a government. Exit polls from Alpha Research and Gallup suggested Borissov’s center-right GERB party was on course to win about 25 percent of the vote in Bulgaria’s […]