Category: 3. Europe

Europe looms large in Norway’s national election today – but only beneath the surface. Most Norwegians are blissfully unaware of the European dimension of their politics and their political parties are happy to keep it that way.

Norway, a…

Frankreich steht vor dem politischen Kollaps: Heute Abend droht die Regierung von Premier François Bayrou zu stürzen. Nicolas Barré, Chefredakteur von POLITICO in Paris, analysiert die Hintergründe der Krise und was sie für die Stabilität des Euro und die deutsche Politik…

According to figures cited by Girteka from the Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA), recorded cargo losses in the EU totalled €549 million in 2023: a 438% jump compared to 2022 and more than ten times higher than in 2021. A European…

Some drills — near the Belarusian village of Gozha and in Kaliningrad’s Dobrovolsk — will take place just a few dozen kilometers from Poland and Lithuania. Troops will also be positioned on both sides of the Suwałki Gap, the 70-kilometer corridor between Belarus and Kaliningrad widely…

France was able to stave off an economic catastrophe during the pandemic and when energy prices shot up at the outset of the full-scale war in Ukraine, in part thanks to massive public spending. Finding a consensus on reining in expenditures has proven difficult, and lawmakers are loath to…

This became apparent after the nonreciprocal concessions made to U.S. President Donald Trump on defense spending and trade, as well as Europe’s acceptance of a junior role in handling the war in Ukraine. Moreover, from Gaza to Nagorno-Karabakh, the EU’s involvement in conflicts abroad has…

“This was a bad summer for Europe,” said Bas Eickhout, co-chair of the Greens in the Parliament, a different political group from von der Leyen but one that voted her into office. “What we clearly want as a message from the president of the Commission is that things need to…

It’s a far cry from the early days of Le Pen’s tenure at the helm of the National Rally, when she tried to remake the party’s image into one of a reasonable, respectable political force open to compromise that was ready to govern. 

Le Pen’s pivot 

During Barnier’s first…

PARIS — After nearly two weeks as a political dead man walking, French Prime Minister François Bayrou’s moment of reckoning has arrived.

Bayrou and his minority government on Monday will face a confidence vote over a proposed €43.8 billion budget squeeze that, barring…