
EU socialist chief: Cooperation with the EPP no longer possible
By: EBR | Monday, May 8, 2023
Socialists and Democrats have always been able to cooperate with all pro-European forces in the European Parliament, but the centre-right European People’s Party’s movements towards collaboration with the far right oversteps our “pro-EU red line”

Tajani cancels Paris visit after minister compares Meloni with Le Pen
By: EBR | Friday, May 5, 2023
After a brief thawing, the frost has once again returned between Rome and Paris after French Interior Minister Gerald Darminin called Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni “incapable” of controlling the migratory phenomenon

Commission inches towards Berlin in EU debt rules proposal
By: EBR | Thursday, April 27, 2023
The European Commission presented its legislative proposals for a reform of the EU rules for national debts and deficits on Wednesday (26 April), moving closer to the position of Germany but keeping the key concept of country-specific debt reduction plans

EU lawmakers back ban on goods linked to deforestation
By: EBR | Wednesday, April 26, 2023
The European Parliament approved a landmark deforestation law on Wednesday to ban imports into the EU of coffee, beef, soy and other commodities if they are linked to the destruction of the world’s forests

Serbia ‘disappointed’ with Ukraine, Greece, Slovakia over CoE Kosovo vote
By: EBR | Wednesday, April 26, 2023
A vote on Kosovo’s bid to join the Strasbourg-based international human rights body, the Council of Europe, has laid bare a raft of geopolitical issues and tensions across Europe

Austrian communist party stages major comeback
By: EBR | Tuesday, April 25, 2023
The communist party KPOplus made huge gains and secured a solid fourth place in its best supralocal election result since at least World War II in the Salzburg state elections

Faroe Islands warns Denmark not to probe Russian ships’ presence
By: EBR | Tuesday, April 25, 2023
It is up to the Faroe Islands to react to the presence of Russian fishing ships in its harbours, Faroese Foreign Minister Hogni Hoydal warned Copenhagen

Berlin considers withdrawing support for EU buildings directive
By: EBR | Monday, April 24, 2023
Government infighting in Berlin could see Germany abandon a mandatory renovation principle in the EU’s buildings directive ahead of final negotiations in Brussels

Lawmakers deadlocked over role of non-EU political parties
By: EBR | Monday, April 24, 2023
Tightening rules on EU political parties to prevent foreign interference could lead to parties from Ukraine and other pre-accession states being prevented from joining pan-EU political groups and “send a wrong message to the world”

Bavaria wants to keep nuclear plants running despite federal phase-out plans
By: EBR | Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Nuclear power plants in Bavaria must be kept running despite the country’s phase-out plans, according to the region’s government, which will need an unlikely green light from the federal government

Merkel receives highest German award amid criticism
By: EBR | Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Former Chancellor Angela Merkel received the country’s highest order of merit, but not everyone thought the honour was justified, including high-ranking members of her own conservative CDU party

Worst migrant death toll in the Mediterranean since 2017, UN agency reports
By: EBR | Thursday, April 13, 2023
The first three months of 2023 were the deadliest since 2017 for migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean, according to data published by the International Organisation for Migration

Austria to request extension of border controls with Hungary, Slovenia
By: EBR | Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Interior Minister Gerhard Karner wants to apply to the European Commission to extend border controls with Hungary and Slovenia for another six months, the minister said on Tuesday

Cohesion funds increase inequality within EU regions, study finds
By: EBR | Tuesday, April 11, 2023
The EU’s cohesion policy, which aims at reducing regional disparities, benefits high-skilled, richer households more than low-income households and exacerbates inequality within EU regions, according to a recent study

Italian MP: Meloni’s government can’t manage national recovery plan
By: EBR | Tuesday, April 11, 2023
The implementation of the national recovery plan is being delayed as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government struggles to solve the age-old problem related to the Public Administration spending funds from Brussels

The EU’s Water Strategy Is Too Shallow
By: EBR | Friday, April 7, 2023
In March 2023, the UN held a conference on the future of water in a world increasingly affected by climate breakdown

Nehammer to team up with Nordics on EU migration transformation
By: EBR | Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Centre-right Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has visited Copenhagen and Stockholm to bolster the three countries’ coordination on transforming the EU’s migration regime

Wanted: An EU ’Ageing Agency’ to waken somnolent politicians
By: EBR | Tuesday, April 4, 2023
With any luck, a new EU agency will be born next year to focus politicians’ attention on the problems of ageing

EU eyes CO2-hydrogen combination to make synthetic fuels
By: EBR | Monday, April 3, 2023
Experts say the two molecules of carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen are the foundation of the EU’s future low-carbon synthetic fuel industry

Polish PM demands EU takes action over cheap Ukrainian grain influx
By: EBR | Thursday, March 30, 2023
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki will send a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen calling for immediate steps to remedy Polish farmers’ problems since the EU allowed cheap grain imports from Ukraine