Category: 3. Europe

A Belgian legal expert has urged European governments to nominate more conservative judges and revise key asylum rules, in an opinion circulating among EU capitals eager for greater leeway to deport migrants.

The paper, drafted 10 August and…

Der Bundestag steckt mitten im “Haushalts-Ironman”. Während der Etat 2025 erst beschlossen wird, rollt bereits die Debatte um den Haushalt 2026 an. Rasmus Buchsteiner analysiert die Lage im Finanzministerium, spricht über Sparvorgaben, Schuldenbremse und die offene…

Sophie in ‘t Veld was a Dutch MEP from 2004-2024 in the Renew Group. She chaired the European Parliament’s Rule of Law Monitoring Group (ROLMG) from 2018.

Europe is in a fight – a fight for our very future. A new world order is rapidly…

Korea’s car exports increased 8.6 percent from a year earlier in August despite U.S. tariffs, thanks to robust demand for electric vehicles (EVs) in Europe, data showed Tuesday.

The value of outbound shipments of automobiles came to $5.5 billion…

Starmer has brought in multiple officials who worked under former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair to try to turn things around. But one person who speaks regularly to No. 10 argued that unlike Blair, the current prime minister doesn’t have a “Starmerite” ideological caucus, and that…

Incidentally, European corporate leaders, who sometimes urge the Commission to be less rigorous in its enforcement of…

Memory politics

After Tusk’s government came to power, it dropped the demands of the previous PiS government that Germany pay €1.3 trillion in reparations — a figure Nawrocki continues to back.

The Tusk government, while believing there is a moral case for reparations, maintains…

“They are very different contexts, but are similar conditions in the sense that from the Ukraine-Russia war there was a sudden gas shortage, and then they had to quickly pivot to deal with this gas crunch.

“And so specifically it was…