A weak economy and high interest rates caused many German companies to slide into insolvency at the end of 2023, the German statistics office said on Friday. The number of insolvencies filed rose by 12.3% in December compared to the same month in the previous…

When the stability of your security is heavily reliant on a specific election outcome, it’s a clear sign of distress. Our review of European news outlets revealed a pattern of reporting heavily influenced by wishful thinking. For instance, a German reporter…

The European Union is moving to establish its own naval security force in the Red Sea that would work together with a U.S.-led initiative already protecting ships against Iranian-backed Houthi militant attacks. EU states gave initial backing earlier this…

The European Commission recently assessed the budget plans for 2024 of member states, including that of Italy, which seems to be out of line with the recommendations of the EU Council. Italy has been asked to make changes and bring its public accounts into…

The Spitzenkandidaten was meant to be the way to bring people closer to Europe, giving them the illusion that they mattered by sending the leading candidate of the political family that got the majority of votes to the presidency of the European Commission.…

When it comes to subsidies, Germany and France are Europe’s kings, leaving the bloc’s other 25 countries standing by idly as mere spectators of their joint reign. The latest numbers released by the European Commission confirmed what many had for months feared:…

Filling Charles Michel shoes could represent an interesting option. There, they would be ready to welcome him with open arms since the Socialists are looking for leaders and, to make a decent figure, all they have to do is bet on him at the Council.

On Thursday January 25, Marine Le Pen warned her German partners in the AfD, at the heart of a controversy for advocating a form of “remigration”, by questioning “the capacity” to ally “in the same group” in the Strasbourg Parliament, as is the case today.…

The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, withdraws from the political race for the next European elections, denying what was announced on January 7th. “I will not be a candidate in the European elections. I will devote all my efforts to my current…

A member of the European Parliament from Latvia has spent decades secretly working for Russian security services, according to a new investigation by The Insider, citing leaked emails between the politician and her suspected “handlers.”  According to The…

‘There is one attempt after another to blackmail Hungary and to pressurise it even more. I can only say to the Hungarian government and Prime Minister Orban that we strongly support their efforts to reject these brutal blackmail attempts that are outside…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Thursday his rightwing Fidesz party will join the Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group led by his friend and rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party chief and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni after the European…

Farmers’ anger has infected a bit of everyone in Europe and is being felt everywhere. From Rome to the Ukrainian borders in Poland. In the U.S., however, there are no protests. Perhaps it is because politics there has realized that agriculture is sovereignty.…

Qatargate? Better to call it a soap bubble. Belgian justice continues to lose credibility. It has sacrificed justice on the altar of self-righteous vigilantism. First the conflict of interest of Judge Michel Claise, who has now entered the political arena…

Members of the Reconquête! party of French far-right leader Éric Zemmour have joined the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group in the European Parliament in a bid to strengthen the right-wing camp after the EU elections in June. With this move…

Vladimir Putin has threatened the United States with a global war that will “bring humanity to the brink” if it deploys troops to Ukraine. The Russian president appealed to the US to stop the fighting in Ukraine and push for peace, telling US TV personality…

In an excerpt of an interview for La Stampa, Tino Chrupalla, co-leader of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), discusses the explosion of his party’s support in Germany. According to polls, AfD is at 19 per cent of the vote, becoming the third largest force…

Atlantic Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg carefully avoids naming him, as if he was the devil himself. But the Norwegian does not hide what he is responding to. He has no choice. Too incendiary were the words of the former, perhaps future, US president…

 Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen will seek a second term as head of the European Union’s powerful Commission in a move that could make her the most significant politician representing the bloc’s 450 million citizens in a over a generation. Following five years…

Von der Leyen told the Munich Security Conference over the weekend that if re-elected, she would aim to create a separate post for European Defence Commissioner but did not go into detail about the scope of the portfolio. After the announcement, Sikorski’s…

According to an internal email obtained by POLITICO, members and staff within the chamber’s subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE) have fallen victim to surveillance software tools. The institution has directed all lawmakers within the subcommittee to…