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Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca downplayed the Dutch resolution, saying it is not disturbing because Romania has done everything necessary to fulfil the technical requirements for accession.

Dutch Schengen holdout risks fuelling anti-EU sentiment in Bulgaria, Romania

By: EBR | Monday, October 24, 2022

As the Netherlands continues to withhold its green light for Romania and Bulgaria to join Europe’s border-free zone, politicians in the Balkan countries warn that the move, perceived as unfair and discriminatory, risks feeding Euroscepticism

Germany, itself under fire for its €200 billion household and industry support scheme, is pushing fellow EU leaders to abandon the ideas of price caps at an EU summit on 20-21 October.

Berlin resists price caps, pushes EU to ‘develop new gas fields’

By: EBR | Friday, October 21, 2022

With only weeks to go before a key UN climate conference, the German government is pushing EU leaders to work with countries that have the capacity “to develop new gas fields”

"The effects of a successful cyber-attack on industrial controls can result in the physical destruction of critical infrastructure, inability to deliver basic services and even risks to human life."

Closing the cyber gaps in Europe’s energy security

By: EBR | Friday, October 21, 2022

After nine months of war, Ukraine is advancing to retake its own territory while Russia’s responses have been to attack Ukrainian civil targets and infrastructure though both military force and cyber means

"This being said, the summit ended with open questions: What is the future of the EU’s enlargement policy? Does it still exist? Does it need reforming? Will some of the seventeen non-EU countries be allocated different categories regarding accession? A long debate is looming."

Five takeaways from the European Political Community Summit

By: EBR | Friday, October 21, 2022

Getting forty-four leaders from across Europe to meet in Prague was an achievement in itself

The scandal has exposed the leadership of the EU centre-right, which guaranteed Berlusconi’s pro-European credentials just before the elections, while also causing new headaches for Giorgia Meloni, who is struggling to form a government.

EU right exposed after Berlusconi’s ‘sweet’ letters with Putin

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Silvio Berlusconi has once again caused turmoil in Italian politics after it was revealed that he exchanged “sweet” letters with his long-time “true” friend, Russian President Vladimir Putin

“It is regrettable that Olaf Scholz and the SPD are apparently prepared to put the Emsland nuclear power plant into reserve operation, although there is no factual or technical reason for this,” explained the co-whips Britta Ha?elmann and Katharina Droge, both of whom are openly anti-nuclear.

German nuclear scuffle: Scholz cracks down, insists on keeping all plants

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has cracked down on his infighting government coalition, using his constitutional final say to resolve the dispute over the continued operation of nuclear power plants amid an energy crisis

While the call for joint borrowing gathers more and more followers – including the European Commission itself – a German finance minister who aims to refine his profile vis-a-vis the “leftists” is unlikely to give in and agree to anything that could resemble it.

How a German regional election could shape Europe

By: EBR | Thursday, October 13, 2022

The northern German state of Lower Saxony, home to eight million people, rarely makes headlines, and the international media barely registered this Sunday’s election there

Speaking to EU envoys gathered for their annual meeting in Brussels, Borrell in an unusually direct way warned that reports from the EU’s diplomatic missions around the world sometimes come too late, and reactions need to be responsive to events on the ground.

EU’s chief diplomat scolds his envoys as ‘too slow’ in reporting back

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Considering the many crises facing the EU, its delegations need to be alert 24 hours but are often ‘too slow’ in reporting back to Brussels, the bloc’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell said

While tensions were simmering between the West and Russia, Orban went to Moscow on 1 February on a self-ascribed ’peace mission’ where he blasted the ineffectiveness of the EU’s punitive sanctions and hailed his successful relations with Putin.

Orban: With Merkel, we wouldn’t have a war

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Russia’s war on Ukraine would not have happened if former German Chancellor Angela Merkel was still in office, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said

Green MEP Michael Bloss told EURACTIV that in this crisis Europe is in the same boat with the US or Norway.

EU fumes as US, Norway energy profits put solidarity to the test

By: EBR | Thursday, October 6, 2022

As the USA and Norway reap unprecedented profits from surging energy prices, EU countries are complaining more loudly

The deal questions Greece’s territorial waters south of the island of Crete and has triggered strong reactions.

After Russia, now Turkey questions Europe’s territory

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 5, 2022

A memorandum of understanding for exploring hydrocarbons at sea signed between the government of Tripoli and Turkey openly questions EU territory causing more headaches in Brussels amid an ongoing war in Ukraine

According to EU diplomats, Malta, Greece and Cyprus are set to receive significant concessions over their economic concerns, including an impact assessment to be made before price caps come into force.

EU agrees on oil price cap in new Russia sanctions draft package

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 5, 2022

EU ambassadors reached a political agreement on the bloc’s new round of Russia sanctions, including an oil price cap, which earlier had been opposed by a few seafaring member states

The organisers of the rally, ‘Czech Republic First!’, are calling for the Czech government to secure gas contracts with Russia and achieve “military neutrality”.

Tens of thousands protest Czech NATO and EU membership

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Demonstrators gathered on Wednesday in Prague to ask Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s administration to resign in the wake of rising energy costs and called for the relationship with the EU, NATO, the UN and the WHO to be reconsidered

As a result of the measures, and particularly for aluminium used in the building industry, “French customers go to Spain for supplies,” Cyrille Mounier from the Aluminium France Federation told EURACTIV France.

The EU: France wants anti-dumping measures against Spain

By: EBR | Thursday, September 29, 2022

As energy prices soared, Europe’s aluminium plants began to shut down while the bloc stepped up imports from Russia and China

"The focus will not just be the new taxes needed to pay for the energy crisis but also the taxes that aren’t being paid."

An EU drive on tax dodging will be its best weapon against Putin

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Autumnal weather is signalling the chill reality of Russia’s economic war with the rest of Europe, but not yet the sheer cost of the conflict

"Giorgia Meloni’s will be the most right-leaning Italian government since World War II."

Italy’s new leader Giorgia Meloni arrives at a critical time for the EU

By: N. Peter Kramer | Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Giorgia Meloni’s election victory comes at a critical time for the European Union, with war back on the continent. Sanctions against Russia are driving up inflationary pressures

Should the Law and Justice (PiS) party win the next year’s parliamentary election and govern the third term in a row, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen “will lose interest in meddling in Polish politics,” he said.

Poland threatens to sue Commission over recovery money block

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Poland will file a complaint against the European Commission before the EU Court in Luxembourg if it continues to block funds from the Recovery and Resilience Facility destined to Poland, announced Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz

MEPs repeat their request for the European Commission to launch, without delay, an impact assessment, public consultation and scoping exercise on a Bilateral Investment Agreement (BIA) with the Taiwanese authorities.

MEPs urge EU memberstates to build closer ties with Taiwan

By: EBR | Friday, September 16, 2022

The European Parliament strongly condemned the recent Chinese aggressive military exercises in the Taiwan Strait, while calling for strengthened EU relations with Taipei

With Europe facing significant energy and cost of living crises, not to mention the more existential threats posed by a war on its eastern border, this was a missed opportunity for those searching for a display of ambitious and decisive EU leadership to help them through the challenging year ahead.

Von der Leyen’s missed opportunity

By: EBR | Thursday, September 15, 2022

Set-piece speeches are the political equivalent of eating a packet of biscuits in one sitting: It feels good at the time, but you feel hungry and bloated an hour later

Whatever the military outcome on the killing fields of the Donbas, it’s the solidarity of the European Union that will eventually determine whether Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is defeated or victorious.

Putin’s war will be won or lost in Brussels

By: EBR | Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Giles Merritt looks at the dizzying costs of the Ukraine war and the energy crisis, and warns that a failure of EU solidarity would hand the Kremlin victory

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