Jean-Claude Juncker

The EU has agreed to open accession talks with two countries with a view to them joining the bloc. Ministers from member states gave the green light to negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia on Tuesday. The two countries have been candidates since 2005 but progress has stalled amid opposition…

That is why other countries are supporting GreeceCOMPARE AND contrast. In 2015 thousands of irregular migrants and asylum-seekers entered Hungary, en route to Germany. Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, built a fence along the country’s southern border to stop them. The European Commission chided Mr Orban. “We have only just…

The European Commission unveiled its new circular economy action plan on Wednesday (11 March), confirming the EU’s intention of halving municipal waste by 2030, and suggesting to offer consumers a new “right to repair” for computers and smartphones. The Commission roadmap, unveiled today, doesn’t contain hard legislation at this stage.…

That is why other countries are supporting GreeceCOMPARE AND contrast. In 2015 thousands of irregular migrants and asylum-seekers entered Hungary, en route to Germany. Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, built a fence along the country’s southern border to stop them. The European Commission chided Mr Orban. “We have only just…

The images of barbed wire and tear gas being thrown from the Greek side of the border with Turkey call to mind similar scenes in Greece, Hungary and elsewhere in 2015-16. Yet comparing the words and actions of the top national and EU officials then and now, one cannot help…

Lobbyists have operated in Brussels for almost as long as the European institutions settled down there. In 1965, several Dutch newspapers reported with a sense of amazement how "pressure groups" had descended in the unofficial European capital to influence officials working for the European Economic Community (EEC) - the then…

Tim King writes POLITICO's Brussels Sketch. When Ursula von der Leyen was seeking the endorsement of the European Parliament to become president of the European Commission, she promised certain legislative proposals “in my first 100 days in office.” In doing so she was bowing to a tradition pioneered by Franklin Delano…

In fairness, she had no idea the final week of her first 100 days would include trying to frame a response to a global plague. Against that, it should have come as no great surprise to new EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that the migration flashpoint in Turkey…

The inundation of Europe with Muslim migrants intent on permanent settlement is unprecedented in world history.  Europe, which has accepted vast numbers of the migrants, has become an epicenter of Islamic terrorism replete with alarming levels of migrant crime, including Muslim sex slave gangs and sharia-controlled "no-go" zones.  Faced with this reality, four Central European countries — Hungary, Poland,…

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