Today, the Foreign Affairs Council (Defence), chaired by the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, starts with an exchange of views on security and defence. Defence…
Today, on March 1, the European Commission’s freshly appointed Secretary-General Martin Selmayr starts working in his new position. On February 21, Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, appointed his…
The foreign Affairs Council met Arab leaders in Brussels on Monday 26th February. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict was on the top of the meeting’s agenda. The European Union (EU) wants to…
On February 21st, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced modifications in his close team, following the decision of the current Secretary-General, Alexander Italianer, to retire. Martin Selmayr (former Head of Cabinet) was…
Luis de Guindos - incumbent Spain’s Minister of Finance – was endorsed yesterday (Monday February the 19th) as the next vice president of the European Central Bank (ECB) by the…
For the third time, since 2005, meeting the European Union (EU) air pollution targets is one of the top priorities in the coalition agreement aiming at the formation of a…
On 10th February, the Turkish navy stopped the Saipem 12000, the ENI (Ente nazionale idrocarburi) Italian platform, which was heading towards Cyprus to begin drilling operations under license from the…
Yesterday, on the 7th February 2018, the European Parliament had to vote on whether or not to dismiss Ryszard Czarnecki, Polish MP who was also one of the 14 Parliament’s…
The European Commission’s president, Jean-Claude Juncker, expressed himself about the "Spitzenkandidat" He declared today that “There is a big danger that the Spitzenkandidat process will be abandoned for the 2019 European elections”.…
“This is not a farewell, nor is it a real goodbye. It is an explanation as to why I chose to be a candidate. So we will see what happens…