Lobbying is as much a part of Brussels cuisine as sauce funds are to fine cuisine. But too many cooks spoil the broth, and that also applies to lobbying. The gravy fund can become bitter. As with the Fit for 55 package. Pascal Canfin, Chairman of the ENVI Committee in the European Parliament, currently speaks […]
Brussels scramble: On May 30 and 31, the 27 heads of state and government will meet in Brussels for an extraordinary European Council devoted to the war in Ukraine. Yet, while the European Union preaches unity toward Russia, the rift in the European edifice between the Franco-German pair and the Central and Eastern European countries […]
Cuddle stain with hot sauce. Two hot meetings are taking place in Luxembourg at the end of France’s EU presidency: the Council of Energy Ministers on June 27 and the Council of Environment Ministers on June 28. And this in an uncertain national context, after Head of State Emmanuel Macron – aka Jupiter – received […]
Hot pots are an indispensable part of Brussels cuisine. The hot pot offered by the European Commission is particularly spicy at the moment.Parliamentary wrangling over the Fit for 55 packages is taking a (temporarily tiny) break, and EU diplomats are already in marching order to prepare for the next EU summit on June 23-24 and […]
Spies are not supposed to betray their own power apparatus. But precisely exactly what the head of Russian foreign espionage Sergei Naryshkin has done on February 23, unintentionally and conspicuously. At a meeting of the Russian Security Council, his answers not only revealed how the pretexts of Russian imperialism change on a whim. As Vladimir […]