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…
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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…
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 top job nominations without surprises
Brussels 28.06.2024 The EU leaders have nominated incumbent European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen for a second five-year term. The Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas was promoted as the EU top diplomat, and former Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa was endorsed as the next president of EU Council. They represent centre right, socialists, and…
Zelensky admits heavy human losses
Brussels 27.06.2024 At the margins of the EU Summit Zelensky signed three security agreements days after the EU announced it was opening formal membership negotiations with Kyiv. Among them two bilateral with Estonia, and Lithuania, and one general with the EU “as whole”. “For the first time, this agreement will enshrine the commitment of all…
Charles Michel hosts crucial EU Summit
Brussels 27.06.2024 Invitation letter by President Charles Michel (pictured above): “I would like to invite you to the European Council meeting of 27 and 28 June. This will be a particularly significant meeting, as we face both a substantive agenda and critical decisions that will shape our path forward. “Among these decisions, three stand out…
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