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In the past few days, Musk has written numerous posts attacking the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his administration over grooming gangs and child sexual exploitation.

Europe leaders criticise Musk attacks

By: EBR | Thursday, January 9, 2025

Few European leaders have felt the lash of Elon Musk’s social media outbursts more than Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz

Some opposition figures and critics in Serbia have expressed doubts, accusing the Serbian strongman of using the prospect of sanctions to distract from domestic issues.

Serbia’s Vucic has hidden agenda behind NIS sanctions alarm, analysts say

By: EBR | Thursday, January 9, 2025

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has raised the alarm that the US will impose Russia-related sanctions on the Oil Industry of Serbia

Decision making in the EU is fraught at the best of times. Amid a leadership vacuum, it will be virtually impossible for the simple reason that lame ducks and caretaker governments aren’t able to commit their countries to anything remotely controversial.

Headless Europe: As the crises mount, the continent’s leaders are AWOL

By: EBR | Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Forget Europe. Were Henry Kissinger still alive, he’d be asking who to call to reach Germany, Belgium or even Bulgaria

“Hosting the summit in Warsaw, unlike in Brussels, which is well-prepared for such events, essentially means bringing my home city to a standstill for a week and disrupting its normal functioning,” Szczerba insisted.

Bickering over EU presidency levels up in Poland

By: EBR | Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Bickering over Poland’s holding of the six-month EU Council Presidency continues as the opposition PiS party criticised the government’s decision to hold the informal EU leaders’ summit in Brussels instead of Warsaw

With so many unknowns about the incoming Donald Trump administration in the United States, the future of Syria, and Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and interference in Eastern Europe, the EU desperately needs a new kind of leadership in Berlin.

Can a New Chancellor Fix Germany?

By: EBR | Tuesday, January 7, 2025

When German voters go to the polls on February 23, they have a chance to reverse the weakening of their country’s economy and foreign policy brought about by the outgoing ruling coalition

The fact that the hard-right FPO — the Austrian equivalent of Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National in France — has now gotten the nod from Austria’s very reluctant President to build a government coalition is a direct result of Austria‘s Social Democrats’ intransigence.

France and Austria: Ominous Political Parallels?

By: EBR | Tuesday, January 7, 2025

The coalition negotiations of the democratic center in Austria have failed, largely because of the intransigence of the country’s Social Democrats

The debate about Germany as a business location resembles the one from 20 years ago.

Germany: The 2030 Agenda Is on Its Way

By: EBR | Monday, December 30, 2024

The older folks among us have been experiencing a sense of deja vu in recent weeks

After all, it is right in line with the strategy of maximizing tensions that extreme political groups of both the right and the left use as a tactic of choice.

Germany After Magdeburg: The AfD‘s Call for Massive Street Protests

By: EBR | Monday, December 23, 2024

A reflection on maximizing tension and street violence against the backdrop of modern European history: Is the far-right’s strategy working?

The AI Office in the European Commission, however, is massively understaffed for the task, counting so far only around 85 staffers – out of which only around 30 team members are specifically tasked with the implementation of the AI Act.

Getting serious about AI rules: Lack of enforcement capacity puts EU at risk

By: EBR | Friday, December 20, 2024

The European AI Office needs to grow to over 200 staff members implementing the rules for AI next year

As a matter of fact, seeing to it that the German economy could throw off a lot of the overregulation that kills GDP growth is the message that has been sent daily for some years now by most Germany companies.

The Death of Economic Liberalism in Germany?

By: EBR | Thursday, December 19, 2024

Olaf Scholz’s SPD and the Greens, along with their dedicated supporters in the media, are out to blame Germany’s small liberal party

Scholz’s government has grown increasingly unpopular in Germany, with Scholz also one of the least popular chancellors ever, according to a September opinion poll.

German cancellor faces confidence vote likely to lead to snap elections

By: EBR | Monday, December 16, 2024

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz faces a confidence vote on Monday he is expected to lose

The Serbian spyware, dubbed “NoviSpy” by Amnesty, then took covert screenshots of mobile devices, copied contacts, and uploaded them to a government-controlled server, the report said.

Serbia used Israeli firm’s tech to enable spy campaign, Amnesty says

By: EBR | Monday, December 16, 2024

Serbian officials installed homegrown spyware on the phones of dozens of journalists and activists, Amnesty International said in a report

“It has been no secret that Giorgia Meloni intended to step down as the president of the ECR. Equally, it has been well-known that Mateusz Morawiecki was the frontrunner to succeed her,” the newspaper Il Giornale reported on Thursday.

Poland’s Morawiecki to replace Meloni as ECR head

By: EBR | Friday, December 13, 2024

Former PiS prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki will take over from Italian Prime Minister and Fratelli d’Italia leader Giorgia Meloni as president of the EU’s conservative ECR

Faced with growing regional differences in electricity prices and a price spike in the south of the country, the Swedish government is considering new measures to help households and businesses cope with the rising pressure.

Swedish minister open to new measures to tackle energy crisis, blames German nuclear phase-out

By: EBR | Friday, December 13, 2024

Sweden is ready to introduce new measures to tackle the country’s soaring energy prices, Energy Minister Ebba Busch announced

The visit comes as a set of European leaders, including France, Poland, Germany and Italy, as well as the UK, look to act together in the face of a second Trump presidency and ensure unwavering support for Ukraine.

Macron to head to Warsaw to brief Tusk, Duda on US-Ukraine talks

By: EBR | Wednesday, December 11, 2024

French President Emmanuel Macron is expected in Warsaw to debrief on conversations with US President-elect Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over the weekend

It is a major win for farmers who want more freedom to shoot animals that threaten their livestock. Hunters cheered the decision.

Wolves, farmers and VDL

By: N. Peter Kramer | Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Although experts had warned that the EU’s bid to change the protection level of wolves was rounded in prejudices,the members of the Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife approved the bid to modify the status of wolves

In the first address by a British chancellor to the Eurogroup since Brexit, Reeves will say resetting relations means "breaking down barriers to trade" as well as helping "businesses sell in each other’s markets".

Closer UK and EU ties will boost growth, says Reeves

By: EBR | Monday, December 9, 2024

Closer relations between the UK and the European Union (EU) will boost economic growth, Chancellor Rachel Reeves will tell finance leaders on Monday

Warsaw counts on Rome to block Mercosur deal

By: EBR | Monday, December 9, 2024

As an EU-Mercosur deal was reached after 25 years, it faces one last stumbling block: member state approval and Poland hopes Italy will play a part in blocking the deal

Since the spring of this year, solar panels on the roof have been powering the sites’ washing machines and dryers in a partnership with local energy cooperative Brupower.

Local energy communities pinning hopes on new Commission

By: EBR | Wednesday, December 4, 2024

An energy community project in south-west Brussels is cutting energy bills for a homeless shower facility

The EU needs to show how listening to others advances its strategic interests in the current global context.

“Listening to Others” as European Foreign Policy?

By: EBR | Tuesday, December 3, 2024

A bold and prominent commitment to “listen to others” has embedded itself at the heart of European foreign policy

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