EUROPE DIPLOMATIC

Europarl: President Roberta Metsola II mandate

Strasbourg 16.07.2024 On Tuesday, MEPs re-elected Roberta Metsola (EPP, MT) as President of the European Parliament until 2027, with 562 votes in the first round. Roberta Metsola won the election in the first round of voting, where she received an absolute majority of 562 votes cast out of 699 by secret paper ballot, among two…

EU: Erasmus+ Programme Ukraine inclusion

Brussels 16.07.2024 Fourteen projects involving 65 organisations from Ukraine have been recommended for funding under the European Union Erasmus+ Programme for Capacity Building in the Field of Higher Education Action (CBHE). This year, the 151 projects proposed for funding include the participation as partners or coordinators of over 1,500 higher education stakeholders from almost 120…

USA: Trump assassination failed

Brussels 14.07.2024 The 45th President Donald Trump’s rally dramatically ended after gunshots were fired while he was speaking in Butler, Pennsylvania. Less than 10 minutes into his speech as Trump spoke about immigration problems caused by open border with Mexico, gunshots were fired, and President raised his hand holding his right ear, and then fell…

NATO Summit: 75 years of Atlanticism

Brussels 12.07.2024 Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg celebrated NATO’s 75th anniversary with US President Joe Biden and all other Allied Heads of State and Government in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday (9-11 July 2024). In a speech at the Mellon Auditorium, where the North Atlantic Treaty was signed in 1949, the Secretary General underlined that NATO is…

Borrell: Ukraine should prevail

Brussels 12.07.2024 The EU top diplomat Josep Borrell made remarks upon arrival to the NATO Summit in Washington D.C., where the allies celebrated NATO’s 75th anniversary with US President Joe Biden and all other Allied Heads of State and Government. “During 75 years [of its existence] NATO has been ensuring peace and protecting the free…

NATO new cyber defense centre

Brussels 11.07.2024 NATO allies agreed to launch a new cybersecurity unit aimed at warning military commanders of emerging hacking threats. The decision was announced during the 75th NATO Summit in Washington D.C. on July 10. (Image above: illustration). The Integrated Cyber Defense Centre’s mandate will include sharing threat intelligence on cyber threats to private infrastructure…

Hungary: a unique EU Nobel Peace Prize heir

Brussels 10.07.2024 Today the Minister for European Union Affairs János Bóka received Brussels press corps to update the programme, and the views of the Hungarian government profiling itself as a voice of those who “aspire change in the European Union”, and has intentions to keep this aspirations alive for the next institutional cycle. The meeting…

EU: Russia absurd playwright sentence

Brussels 09.07.2024 Russian court sentenced the director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk, to six years in prison for “justifying terrorism” through their award-winning theatre play “Finist, the Brave Falcon”, which actually speaks against terrorism. “This sentence is absurd – as if Dostoyevsky were responsible of a murder by Raskolnikov” reads the statement issued by…

EP: Orban unites Europe’s Patriots

Brussels 08.07.2024 Marine Le Pen’s conservative National Rally (RN) joins a growing new alliance in the European Parliament led by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Hungary’s government spokesperson said on Monday, July 8. The new group enlists 84 MEPs from 12 EU states, and the door remains open. (Image below: announcement of a new group…

EU strongly condemns North Korea missile launch

Brussels 02.07.2024 “The European Union strongly condemns the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) launch of ballistic missiles on 1 July, which constitutes another violation of UN Security Council resolutions” reads the statement by the spokesperson on the recent launch of ballistic missiles. (Picture above: illustration, DPRK soldiers) “The EU reiterates its call on the…