A plethora of applications to join the EU, filed last week in the emotion of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have been welcomed in Brussels. Candidate status for the...
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There may not be a way to fast-track Ukraine’s EU membership, but its formal application is a firm statement of intent. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on...
Non-committal for weeks, Germany acted swiftly following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to announce that it was pulling the plug on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. German...
Budapest and Warsaw now face the real threat of the EU withholding budget payments should they continue to breach their commitments to the rile of law. European...
Spooked by supply chain issues that have slowed down manufacturing throughout the EU, the bloc has announced plans for 43 billion euros worth of investment in its...
Three topics: Belarus, Russia, and Covid-19 dominated the EU’s Eastern Partnership summit in Brussels. But only two made it to the joint declaration released at...
The EU’s top court has formally recognised the relationship of same-sex parents and their children under EU law. In a landmark judgement, the Court of Justice of...
Opinions of the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) Advocate General Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona are not binding, but the Luxembourg-based ECJ usually follows them...
As the crisis on the Belarus-Poland border eases - to a certain extent - human rights groups call for more solidarity with migrants.
EU enlargement in the Western Balkans is currently blocked by politics. But that does not mean economic criteria should be neglected.
For Joe Biden’s Summit for Democracy to succeed, the US must work closely with NATO and the EU to take concrete measures to stop the erosion of democracies from...
Leadership is no longer about where somebody is from, but the ability to combine global perspectives with local know-how. In the first few years that followed the fall...