Admit it. You forgot about the refugee crisis. COVID-19 does a lot of nasty stuff to us, and one of its most neglected symptoms is our ability to forget about all the other crises in Europe. The massive waves of asylum-seekers seem gone, mostly. But how come they are?
Etienne Ansotte – EC – Audiovisual Service In our latest piece on Brexit, we discussed the developments in the Brexit saga up until the second half of October. Since then, a lot has happened, so […]
On Monday, EU ambassadors met to discuss the EU’s budget, or multi-annual financial framework (MMF), for the upcoming seven years and a COVID-19 recovery fund aimed at supporting member states in tackling the world wide pandemic – but Hungary and Poland did not play along…
The European Parliament and the Council have come to a provisional agreement on the conditionality of the distribution of funds based on the state of rule of law in Member States. Now if this sentence didn’t make any sense to you at all, that’s understandable. I threw some Brussels Bubble vocabulary in for you. But don’t be alarmed. I’m going to explain it as best I can…
Nowhere in Europe has the Coronavirus impacted society as much as in Belarus. For the past two months, the streets of Minsk have been turned into the stage of a possible revolution. Together with Budapest-based […]
On 23 October, the European Parliament (EP) voted on amendments to a law designed to reform the EU’s common organisation of the agricultural markets, which is one large component of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the EU’s most budget-intensive policy The amendments in question dealt with a hotly debated issue: the labelling of meat and dairy substitutes…
Many topics were discussed in last week’s plenary session of the European Parliament, but one of its most important ones was the CAP. Or the Common Agricultural Policy. The discussion was even awarded its own trending hashtag: #VoteThisCAPdown.
Chris J Ratcliffe © European Union 2019 – Source : EP On Thursday, October 15th, EU leaders made a public statement on the Brexit negotiations. The next day, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson responded to […]
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