SAFE is meant to kick-start a European security renaissance, provide independence from the U.S. and give the continent the tools to defend itself against Russian aggression.
The EU wants the U.K., with its large defense industry, in the tent. Britain wants in too — predicting benefits…
It’s also a worry in Poland, Austria and inside EU institutions — all of which are rushing to put in safeguards to block, or at least monitor, third-country investment in key tech and transport infrastructure.
What accelerated Sweden’s move was a recent EU court ruling involving…
But the mood in the European Parliament and in some capitals has turned volatile.
And with the clock ticking down to a tentative Dec. 20 date for European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to fly to Brazil for a formal signing ceremony, the path to that successful outcome is…
Rumors about the orgy were started by “certain female police officers, jealous for not having been invited to the evening,” Johan De Becker, then chief of the Brussels West policing zone, told the newspaper La Capitale. So remember the golden rule: Don’t mess with Belgian…
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“It is undoubtedly the case that there is a bit of a mismatch on some of the perceptions versus the reality, but I think if you walk through the streets and you see rubbish in the streets, you can smell cannabis, you talk to a shopkeeper who’s just had somebody steal something, your bike…
Five diplomats from various European countries, however, complained that Belgium appears to have a secondary agenda in holding onto Russia’s money thanks to the tax generated. They noted Belgium was breaking an international commitment — made last year — to disclose what it was doing with…
Politicians in Westminster are always falling all over themselves to sound tough on crime.
But with so-called “low level” crimes like shoplifting and phone snatching now at record levels, the rhetoric on “lawless” Britain has been growing ever louder.
This week,…
In 2017, Hohm lost his job as an aide for the AfD parliamentary group in the eastern state of Brandenburg after he was spotted at a soccer game for FC Energie Cottbus, a team in Germany’s third division that at the time attracted right-wing extremist hooligans known for chanting Nazi…
Hopes had grown in recent days that De Wever could reverse his position if the European Commission were to offer him legal guarantees in the proposal that Belgium would not be financially exposed.
But despite increasing diplomatic pressure for Belgium to cave, De Wever on Thursday only…