Germany and Hungary quarreled Monday during a foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels over the role a controversial Hungarian bank is playing in Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to four diplomats familiar with the exchange. The bank, OTP, has become a focal point for officials in recent days as Hungary is refusing to approve more EU military aid for…
What policies will be at the heart of their electoral campaigns? Are they going to have a Spitzenkandidat? How will groups differentiate from each other? These are among the questions EURACTIV asked presidents of the political groups in the European Parliament ahead of next June’s European elections, in a series of video interviews which will…
EU and Republic of Korea launch Green Partnership to deepen cooperation on climate action, clean energy and environmental protection Today, the EU and the Republic of Korea have established a Green Partnership with the aim of strengthening bilateral cooperation and exchanging best practices on climate action, clean and fair energy transition, protection of the environment,…
On 9 May, the European Union celebrates this year’s Europe Day. For the first time, Ukraine, which has obtained EU candidate status, also celebrates this day marking the founding act of the Union, the 1950 Schuman Declaration. For the occasion, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen visited Kyiv. While EU citizens…
The family of Mahsa Amini have blamed Iran’s security forces for vandalizing the grave of the young woman whose death while in police custody in September 2022 ignited nationwide protests that have turned into one of the biggest threats to the Islamic republic’s leadership since it took power in 1979. The Amini family’s attorney, Saleh…
The European Commission has called upon EU Member States to modernise their minimum income schemes as part of the ongoing pledge to reduce poverty and social exclusion in Europe. Minimum income is cash payments that help households who need it to bridge the gap to a certain income level to pay the bills and live…
In May 2021, as the EU-27 began to take a breather from the coronavirus health crisis, EU leaders met in Porto, northern Portugal, to address the social consequences of the pandemic — and its economic impact. The summit, organised under the Portuguese presidency of the EU Council, sought to put people at the heart of…
BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 22. The Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) held discussions within the framework of joint cooperation with SWIFT (the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) system in the direction of expanding the sphere of innovative payment services in the country, as well as providing reliable, sustainable and secure payment solutions, the CBA told…
Sinan Oğan, the nationalist “kingmaker” who came third in Turkey’s closely fought presidential election, is throwing his weight behind President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the runoff on Sunday, although it’s increasingly unclear how many of his first-round supporters will follow his lead. The previously little-known Oğan built on a wave of anti-migration sentiment to pick…
It is a clear success of French diplomacy that in the last four days, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been taken by a French official airplane to two international summits, where he did his best to impact international players perceived as neutral vis-à-vis the Russian aggression against his country. Zelenskyy surprised all by arriving last Friday…