Politics & Economics

US President Joe Biden’s step back found a lukewarm response among EU leaders as most of them have tended not to follow up on Biden’s announcement.

Of the 24 committees and subcommittees in the European Parliament, 8 are allocated to the EPP, 5 to S&D, 4 to Renew Europe, 3 to ECR and the Greens, and 2 to The Left. No committees were assigned to the Patriots for Europe and Europe of Sovereign Nations.

The decision to hold in Brussels the informal Foreign Affairs meeting initially planned to take place in Budapest and scheduled at the end of August will shut down the saga that sparked with the visit of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to Russia in early July.

The 27 Social Affairs EU ministers are dealing with new measures to design against labour and skills shortages at European level. The action plan released by the European Commission last March is the beacon for such policies

After being designated by EU leader for a second mandate at the EU commission’s helm, Ursula von der Leyen faces the 702-member EU Parliament to gain trust

It just took one round vote to reconfirm Roberta Metsola at the helm of the European Parliament. The plenary was convened for its constitutive session after the election of June 6-9.

The new European Parliament, which emerged from the 9 June elections, meets in Strasbourg from tomorrow until Friday. It must give, or not, its investiture to the President-designate of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen: it is a vote still in the balance, in which the MEPs of Fratelli d’Italia play a key role. Their votes may prove necessary, in order to guarantee UvdL a majority, but also lethal, because they may deprive it of the majority that supports it on paper.

The European Parliament has changed: the Identity and Democracy group (ID) has been replaced by the “Patriots for Europe” (PFE), a new far-right group that includes 84 MEPs from 12 delegations, and Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN), the newest group of all, with 25 MEPs from 8 delegations.

The constitutive meeting of the new ‘Patriots for Europe‘ group in the European Parliament has just concluded. After this morning’s confirmations of the entry of…

Labour won 411 seats, an increase of 209 from their total in the 2019 election. In general elections, these numbers were long out of reach for the left-leaning party. After 14 years of right-wing dominance, the Labour Party rises from the dust.

Two groups with opposite political positions, The Left and the European Conservatives and Reformists (better known as Ecr), were required to decide their structure for the upcoming years this week.

The Hungarian EU Council rotating presidency is eager to boost the competitiveness of tourism as much as it is determined to do in other sectors.