Far back, in March and April, the European Union didn’t look great. Confronted with the Covid-19 pandemic, member states acted upon their own, with little coordination and still less European uniformity. Couple of residents or federal governments wanted to theEU European organizations were mainly sidelined, with little to provide thanks to their constrained proficiencies and […]

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New civil demonstrations in Bulgaria started in early July, mad at the federal government in Sofia’s failure to suppress extensive corruption. “There is a deeply-rooted sense of injustice, of rules only being applied to some and not everyone”, stated Louisa Slavkova, director of Sofia Platform, an NGO that intends to promote dialogue and civic education. […]

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EU leaders have actually coped the whole weekend to discover a compromise to relaunch the European economy after the pandemic, prior to getting in a fourth successive day of talks on Monday (20 July) in Brussels. The stand-off over the more than EUR1 trillion seven-year EU budget and the prepared EUR750 bn recovery plan was […]

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The Netherlands and Spain are at opposite ends of the dispute about the EU’s recovery bundle. They need to understand they are in the exact same boat. The Covid-19 pandemic has actually activated an unmatched economic downturn in Europe which has actually struck the EU at a fragile minute. It might be the most difficult […]

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Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems on Thursday invited the decision by the European Union’s Court of Justice (ECJ) in his case versus Facebook, which ruled that the EU- United States information transfer pact stops working to secure EU residents’ rights to privacy. The EU- United States ‘Privacy Guard’ – a contract to share individual information […]

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EU leaders will face essential and tough problems on Friday-Saturday (17-18 July), when they try to settle on the prepared seven-year EUR1.07 trillion budget and EUR750 bn recovery plan. Pressure has actually been installing to come to an arrangement to deal with the financial fallout of the pandemic, calm financial markets and buy European economies […]

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After a gruelling two-day summit on the long-lasting EU budget in February, it took 25 minutes for leaders to shoot down the just brand-new proposition that emerged from a series of over night bilateral talks with European Council president CharlesMichel Annoyed by the absence of development, numerous pointed the finger at the former Belgian prime […]

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Covid-19 may have decreased the global economy, however not the world’s descent into ever brutish methods to conduct internationalpolitics The European Union appears figured out to ‘speak the language of power’ in concept, however it is still shy about doing it in practice. Nicu Popescu: ‘As long as concrete EU policies stay up until now […]

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The European Commission revealed on Wednesday (15 July) a set of guidelines to enhance the EU’s reaction to a capacity future rise of coronavirus infections – contacting member states to lower the danger of a synchronised seasonal-flu and Covid-19 break outs in the fall. “The virus is still with us, but Europe is now much […]

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The European Commission states it’s unfair that big tech business like Apple pay less than one-percent tax on earnings made in the European Union. The remarks follow an awkward defeat by the Brussels-based executive when the General Court of the European Union annulled its EUR13 bn tax judgment versus Apple on Wednesday (15 July). “We […]

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