The Chinese government just announced that an appeal was filed with the World Trade Organization over the provisional tariffs imposed by the European Commission on imported battery electric vehicles.
Despite the meaningful achievement in reducing bureaucracy and boosting transparency through several pieces of legislation and delivering on the adopted action plans, the EU is now facing the test of structural reforms
With the 20 September deadline fast approaching, it is crucial for EU Member States to submit the medium-term fiscal structural plans required under the reviewed economic governance framework
The decision of the new Mediterranean Commissioner, a new role in the European executive, is up to von der Leyen. Italy and Cyprus are competing for the nomination.
After being greenlighted for a second mandate at the helm of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen will spend the second half of August interviewing the candidates the Member States are proposing for commissioner posts
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.