Category: 3. Europe

Winning a game at a World Cup has never been straightforward. From the moment the tournament began in Uruguay in 1930, the gap between participating and succeeding has separated nations across generations. Some countries have shown up regularly and gone home early. Others have…

The European Commission has just released a Staff Working Document (SWD) outlining its analysis in support of the Biotech Act I. The publication comes more than five months after the Commission presented its proposal in mid-December.

One of the more contentious proposals in…

Spokesperson of the Chinese Mission to the EU

Mutual benefit and win-win cooperation are the strongest driving force for China-EU relations. Since the 1980s, China-EU practical cooperation and China’s reform and opening up have reinforced each other, helping China’s…

In a new report, ‘Behind the Price Tag’, the Association of European Cancer Leagues (ECL) has renewed calls for a major overhaul of the EU’s pharmaceutical pricing rules, arguing that the EU’s long-standing Transparency Directive no longer reflects the realities of…

On May 13-14, at the invitation of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdoğan paid a state visit to Astana. Earlier, the heads of state highlighted the importance of the upcoming high-level talks in Astana for further strengthening bilateral…

On 26 May, the European Union signed the Protocol amending the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism, marking a historic step towards a common pan-European definition of terrorist offences.   

The Protocol amends the definition of “terrorist…

The European Commission is seeking feedback on fisheries Multiannual Management Plans (MAPs) across the EU’s sea basins. The call for evidence is open for a four-week period on the Commission’s Have Your Say portal.

The Commission asks EU countries, the fishing sector,…

Relations between Blair and Starmer have been remote in recent months, according to a senior figure at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, the ex-PM’s sprawling policy and strategy consultancy. Having given up having much influence on the Starmer operation, Blair now “wants to…

Value-added services are designed to enhance applicant convenience and are developed in “consultation with, and approved by, client governments,” added the company.

All nine EU governments that responded to Lighthouse Reports’ requests for comment said they issued sanctions against VFS…