By Martin Banks Drone technologies are evolving quickly and that future EU action should prioritise its ability to detect, prevent and respond to malicious activities in the European airspace.
By Martin Banks That was the message to emerge from a meeting of the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR) when it got together in Gotland for a political bureau meeting of 2026.
By Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka Some 82 years after the mass murder of Roma and Sinti at Auschwitz-Birkenau, anti-Roma hate persists. Today’s Roma Holocaust Memorial Day is a warning that Europe is still failing to turn the lessons of history into political reality. This September, Saxony-Anhalt goes to the polls, with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) polling […]
By Martin Banks The body representing civil society at EU level has called for a “comprehensive storage strategy
By Martin Banks MEPs have called on the EU to “urgently implement a European heatwave action plan.”
Russia has carried out a wave of ballistic missile and drone strikes on Ukraine, killing at least eight people and injuring dozens, officials say. Four people were killed in the north-eastern city of Kharkiv, and an elderly woman died in the capital Kyiv. There were two more fatalities in Zaporizhzhia in the south and one […]
By Martin Banks Modern wars are won “not only by military strength but by drones and cutting-edge technologies.” So says Andrius Kubilius, Commissioner for Defence and Space who was speaking after the European Commission and Ukraine signed a major new defence industrial partnership. The EU says the move marks a “major step forward” in the […]
By Martin Banks While economic concerns grow, Europeans value the peaceful, protective and cooperative nature of the EU, and recognise the quality of life it enables, suggests a new poll.
By Martin Banks Democratic resilience must extend to the communities where democratic systems are most tested.
By Edward McMillan-Scott, former British MEP* Wes Streeting’s call for Britain to rejoin the European Union, and Andy Burnham’s more cautious but still sympathetic noises, signal something important: the question of EU membership is no longer taboo in mainstream politics.
