The EU institutions want to develop common ethical standards to avoid conflicts of interest, revolving door effects and corruption. Around 15 months after “Qatargate”, the biggest corruption scandal to date and one that has still not been solved, the Parliament’s negotiators announced an agreement on Thursday. However, they are no longer talking about an ethics […]
The ethics authority for the EU institutions, which has been planned for years, has come dangerously close to reaching its goal. The European Council, the Council and the Group of the European People’s Party, which is important for reaching an agreement in the European Parliament, signaled that they could not support the finalized interinstitutional agreement.Initially, […]
In the dispute over the rule of law in Hungary, the EU Parliament is clashing with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. The Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee has spoken out in favor of taking legal action before the European Court of Justice against the release of €10 billion from the EU budget approved in December. […]
There has been some movement in the dispute over a reform of the European Peace Facility. The positions have converged, the Belgian Council Presidency announced after a meeting of the Permanent Representatives in Brussels on Wednesday. The chances are good that a solution will be found by the EU summit at the end of March, […]
On the second anniversary of the Russian attack on Ukraine, the EU has agreed on new sanctions. The 13th sanctions package is one of the “most comprehensive to date”, said the Belgian Council Presidency following the agreement in principle reached by the Permanent Representatives in Brussels on Wednesday. The formal decision is expected on Saturday, […]
The European NATO countries will meet the two percent target for defense spending in toto for the first time this year. This was stated by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg after a meeting of the 31 allied defense ministers in Brussels on Thursday.In the current year, investments in armaments in Europe will add up to […]
It ended emotionally: After frantic deliberations driven by fears of a right-wing shift in the European elections, the Permanent Representatives of the 27 EU member states gave the green light on Thursday for the reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS).“After examining the ten legislative texts, EU ambassadors have forwarded the asylum and migration […]
What will become of the European Peace Facility (EPF), which is used to finance European arms deliveries to Ukraine? A complicated dispute has broken out between the EU states over this question, in which Germany is also involved. A compromise proposal from the European External Action Service (EEAS) has so far failed to resolve the […]
The EU states have reached a political agreement in principle in favor of a military naval mission to secure merchant shipping in the Red Sea. However, they could not yet say when the naval mission would start, said EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell after a meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels. At the same […]
The dispute over the rule of law in Hungary and the handling of “frozen” funds from the EU budget is coming to a head. On Tuesday in Strasbourg, the European Parliament threatened to take the EU Commission to the European Court of Justice. Although the Parliament cannot take legal action itself, it can ask the […]