At Saturday's congress of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Magdeburg, the party selected a candidate for the upcoming European elections. AfD leader Alice Weidel stressed that "the EU is profoundly undemocratic" because it interferes in private life and business structures, the Welt portal reports. That is why many AfD politicians advocate leaving it, or so-called Dexit.more
Tony Blair, as Britain's prime minister, has been urged to more actively support Ukraine's membership of the European Union and warned that the West has a "too pink" view of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to documents declassified yesterday from British archives.more
I intend to return to national politics and will run for the position of leader of the combined forces of the left in the upcoming parliamentary elections, Dutch commissioner Frans Timmermans told the media today. The vice-president of the European Commission is to resign from his post in Brussels.more
British diplomats in Brussels are pushing for the European Union to withdraw the name Malwina, which was used to describe the Falkland Islands in a declaration signed by it at a summit with Latin American and Caribbean countries, The Times and the Daily Telegraph report.more
The EU Council today adopted a new regulation that addresses "sustainability for batteries and used batteries." The regulation will cover the entire life cycle of batteries - from production to reuse and recycling.more
53 percent of Poles believe that Russia has had opportunities and real influence on decisions made in the institutions of the European Union or its member states, according to a survey commissioned by the European Policy Research Center.more
The European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) will be implemented in 2024 - here are more details about the permit. People travelling to Europe will soon need a new document to enter countries such as Spain, Italy, France and Portugal.more
The war in Ukraine has broken the Franco-German axis that once defined Europe, and now Britain and Poland are taking the initiative, says Prof. Maurice Glasman, a political scientist at St Mary's University in London.more
The Court of Justice of the EU finally dismissed the complaints of British citizens questioning the loss of their rights as citizens of the European Union as a result of Brexit.more
The number of Europeans who see Russia as an adversary or rival has doubled since 2021. - according to the latest survey by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) think tank. In 2023. 64 per cent of respondents considered Russia an adversary or rival, in 2021 the figure was 35.6 per cent. The survey, the results of which were published last week, was conducted in 11 EU countries.more
The Court of Justice of the European Union, in its judgment announced yesterday, found that the December 2019 reform of the Polish judiciary violates EU law. The CJEU thus upheld the European Commission's complaint lodged in April 2021.more
Europe is not waiting to regulate artificial intelligence (AI), we are preparing laws to be approved by the end of the year, said the EU Commissioner for the internal market, Thierry Breton, quoted by the daily "Le Figaro".more
There are now more non-EU than EU workers in a number of sectors that were previously reliant on European citizens, demonstrating the Brexit effect and the impact of international events on immigration patterns.
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The European Union and the US will develop a joint code of conduct on AI artificial intelligence, it was agreed after a meeting of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) concluded yesterday in Lulea, northern Sweden, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in attendance.more
"Twitter will be expelled from the EU if its rules are violated," said French Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, responsible for digital transformation and telecommunications, in an interview with France Info television.more
The European Commission has a problem with transparency, because it announced the renegotiation of the Covid-19 vaccine contract with Pfizer, but it did so in such a way that more questions than answers remain, Politico assessed today.more
58 percent of respondents are against Poland's resignation from the right of veto in the EU, 11 percent were in favor of it. surveyed, 31 percent has no opinion on the matter, according to the Social Changes survey for the wPolityce.pl portal.more
EU regulations are intended to eliminate short-term renting 'on the black', i.e. without taxes, announced Leon Kozminski Academy expert Dr Ewa Kiczmachowska.more
As the latest analysis showed, "Price index in retail stores", toilet paper in April this year. increased by as much as 63.2% year on year. Among the 100 products most often bought by consumers, it took as much as 3rd position in this ranking. Experts explain this high production costs that are passed on to consumers. However, bad
predictions are coming.more
The EU formally approved today the setting of the next elections to the European Parliament for the period from 6 to 9 June 2024, the EU Council announced on its website.more
G7 countries and the European Union will ban imports of Russian gas through pipelines through which Russia cut off supplies after the invasion of Ukraine, the Financial Times reported, citing officials involved in the talks.more