By Martin Banks The EU parliament president says it faces a “challenge” to turn electoral promises into practice. Roberta Metsola was speaking after the recent EU elections which saw a big increase in support for so-called far right political parties. Speaking on Thursday at the EU summit in Brussels she said,“We have now a much […]
EU leaders converge on Brussels on Thursday for a key summit. They will discuss the Strategic Agenda 2024-2029, the next institutional cycle, Ukraine, the Middle East, security and defence and competitiveness. EU council president Charles Michel said this will be a “particularly significant meeting”. Speaking just ahead of the meeting, he said it was so […]
By Martin Banks The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) will hold a public hearing on July 1 to review the legality under European law of the Danish government’s “Ghetto Package.” This is a programme introduced in 2018 that, it is said, seeks to reshape the demographic makeup of neighbourhoods through the reduction […]
New laws to combat violence against women have now entered into force. Violence against women and domestic violence affect an estimated one in three of the 228 million women in the EU. However, a new EU wide law aims to offer much needed help and support to victims. It seeks to criminalised certain forms of […]
Veteran German MEP Manfred Weber has again been elected as leader of the biggest group in the EU parliament. Weber is a long serving German deputy from the CSU – Christlich Soziale Union – political party and a well known figure in EU circles. He was re-elected chairman of the EPP Group in the European […]
By Denis MacShane The European Parliament elections with their low turn outs, unknown politicians, and use as a protest vote against incumbent governments have exploded into life with the decision of President Macron to dissolve the French Parliament. In effect he is holding a plebiscite asking the French people and indirectly the rest of Europe […]
The EU is stepping up its ongoing efforts to protect children from potentially harmful “online porn sites.” It is asking online platforms to spell out what measures they are taking about the dissemination of “illegal and harmful” content. The sites have until early next month to respond. Failure to do so could render them liable […]
By Martin Banks Gains by the far right in last week’s EU elections are “deeply concerning”, says former UK MEP Claude Moraes The far right held their positions in Italy and the Netherlands (with swings between far-right parties rather than to them). But they failed to make headway in other countries where they were predicted […]
By Martin Banks A leading think tank says the time has come to move from “divisive campaigns” to a coalition that “works for Europe.”
By Martin Banks The “much hyped” rise of the Far Right in the EU election was “limited,” says a former senior British Labour MEP.
