The European Commission has approved the addition of ‘Aitoo perunarieska’ from Finland and ‘Liptovské šialence’ from Slovakia to its register of Protected Geographical Indications (PGI).
The Finnish ‘Aitoo perunarieska’ is a round unleavened flatbread (‘rieska’) made primarily from…
The European Commission has launched a call for evidence on the revision of the Guarantee Notice, which describes how the Commission assesses State guarantees under EU state aid rules. Key aspects of the revision will be ensuring market-conformity of guarantee premiums, establishing greater…
A controversial new idea on EU enlargement is stirring debate in Brussels. Zoya Sheftalovich and Sarah Wheaton unpack a proposal known as “reverse enlargement,” as the European Commission tests how far EU capitals are willing to go to speed up Ukraine’s path toward the…
Drei Tage vor der Landtagswahl in Baden-Württemberg steuert das Rennen auf ein Foto-Finish zu. Während Manuel Hagel (CDU) lange als sicherer Sieger galt, holt Cem Özdemir für die Grünen mit einem „Realo-Kurs“ in den Umfragen auf. Gordon Repinski analysiert, warum…
The State Department is adding resources to evacuate stranded Americans in the Middle East, and the Pentagon is scrambling to increase the number of U.S. troops gathering intelligence for operations — the latest indications that the Trump administration was not fully prepared for the broader…
A senior Home Office official, granted anonymity to discuss sensitive policy details, estimates the changes could extend to thousands of individuals. They would not rule out asylum seekers deemed to have broken the law being forced into destitution and rough sleeping in the…
Cyprus was forced to postpone a meeting of the 27 national European affairs ministers scheduled for Monday and Tuesday to discuss the bloc’s seven-year budget and Ukraine and Moldova’s path to EU membership. Delegations from those countries had also been due in Nicosia.
A session of…
For one, Trump and his aides have cited many different objectives: deposing the regime, ensuring Iran never has nuclear weapons, destroying the country’s missile capabilities, vanquishing its navy, ending support for its proxies and terrorism, exacting revenge for past attacks killing…
Johnson is the star attraction. But the conference is otherwise more of a low-wattage affair, with secondary speakers like recent Romanian presidential candidate George Simion and largely mid-ranking officials from Austria, Belgium, Georgia, Cyprus, Croatia, Serbia and Germany. There are no…
Starmer, however, is standing his ground, refusing to authorize anything more than “defensive” operations from Royal Air Force facilities in the U.K. and overseas.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is also playing hardball with Trump, condemning what he regards as a law-breaking…