On October 17 the EU leaders discussed the enlargement. The overwhelming majority wanted to open accession talks with North Macedonia and Albania. However, such a decision requires unanimity, and there was no unanimity yesterday. That is why the EU will revert to this issue before the Zagreb summit in May 2020. ‘Let me be very…
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EU Foreign Ministers focus on Syria and Ukraine
“You know that today we are mainly discussing the military operations in Syria. To me the most important point will be the fact that we are hosting the UN Special Envoy for Syria, [Geir] Pedersen. We will discuss with him how we can help protect the political process from this new military escalation. And obviously,…
EU politicians react on Halle Synagogue Attack
President of the European Parliament David Sassoli led a minute of silence to remember the victims of the attacks in Halle, migrants who drowned off Lampedusa and the late Jacques Chirac. The President expressed his condolences to the people of Halle, adding that his thoughts are with the families of the victims. Shocked and saddened…
Josep Borrell faces MEPs scrutiny
Anna van Densky from Brussels The MEPS of Foreign Affairs Committee questioned Josep Borrell, Spanish candidate for High Representative/Vice-President for foreign affairs and security policy. Political groups’ coordinators from the committee will meet within 24 hours to assess the performance of Josep Borrell, candidate EU top diplomat job. #EU has to cultivate geopolitical approach to…
Finnish Jutta Urpilainen for EU development cooperation job
The Development Committee questioned the candidate Jutta Urpilainen for the international partnerships portfolio on future development cooperation and respect of EU values. #DEV Commissiioner-designate Jutta Urpilainen managed to avoid most burning issues of #Africa as CORRUPTION, TERRORISM, ETHNIC CONFLICTS, CHINA EXPANSION, DEMOGRAPHIC EXPLOSION. Is she set to play #EU Santa-Claus lavishing gifts?! pic.twitter.com/f7IxinsUA7 — Anna…
Orban defends European identity
Hungary Prime Minister Victor Orbán has criticised Brussels’ intention to prevent László Trócsányi for obtaining position of European Commissioner, The former Minister of Justice was under fire of the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee for his stance against immigration. The opinion of Prime Minister became public during his regular Friday morning interview on Kossuth Radio’s…
MEPs against terrorist content online
Members of European Parliament Civil Liberties Committee agreed on September 24 to begin discussions with EU ministers on new EU rules to tackle the dissemination of terrorist content on the internet. MEPs could soon start negotiations with EU countries on rules that could force internet companies to remove content promoting terrorism within an hour of being…
New Commission media team announced
Ursula von der Leyen, endorsed as a top EU executive, announces her future media relations team: Jens Flosdorff, a German national with 15 years’ experience in political communication, is currently part of the President-elect’s transition team. He was director of communication in the German ministries of defence and of social affairs over the past ten…
MEPs endorsed Lagarde for EBC chair
Christine Lagarde (France) obtained Parliament’s approval to be the European Central Bank (ECB) next president, in a plenary vote on September 17. In the secret vote, MEPs casted 394 ballots in favour, 206 against and 49 abstentions to recommend Lagarde to head up the European Central Bank. Christine Lagarde gets👍from MEPs to be the ECB’s…
“Anti-Hungary lobby”strikes again
“The anti-Hungary, pro-migration lobby is back” reads the statement of State Secretary of Hungarian government Zoltán Kovács. The anti-Hungary, pro-migration lobby is back at it again. The #Article7 witch hunt goes on… Read my latest blog entry here: https://t.co/9wqNuujrhd https://t.co/jZmWmtZy1H — Zoltan Kovacs (@zoltanspox) September 16, 2019 “Certain elements in the European Parliament remain determined…
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