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Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi after presenting Italy’s Recovery and Resilience Plan to the Chamber of Deputies last week.
May 3, 2021
Last July, the heads of state or government of the 27 EU member states, meeting as the European Council, agreed to a plan, developed at their request by the European...
Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, at the European Parliament Tuesday as it voted to approve the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
April 30, 2021
Almost five years after British voters chose, by a narrow 52-48 margin in the June 23, 2016 referendum, to leave the EU, Brexit finally is a done deal. On Tuesday evening,...
Vernon Bogdanor CBE, Professor of Government at the Institute of Contemporary British History at King’s College, London
April 23, 2021
On April 19, the MacMillan Center hosted Vernon Bogdanor to speak on “Britain and the European Union after Brexit.” Bogdanor CBE is Professor of Government at the Institute...
The socially-distancing Second Senate of the German Constitutional Court.
April 22, 2021
Last July, the leaders of the 27 member states of the European Union, meeting as the European Council, agreed to an economic recovery plan  prepared at their request by the...
Armin Laschet, the CDU-CSU’s chancellor candidate, and Annalena Baerbock, the Greens’ chancellor candidate.
April 21, 2021
German voters will go to the polls on September 26 to elect the Bundestag. For most parties, the party leader is its presumed chancellor candidate in the election campaign....
Armin Laschet, CDU leader, and Markus Söder, CSU leader, after CDU-CSU meeting Tuesday to discuss chancellor candidate issue.
April 16, 2021
Last July, in a five-day marathon meeting of the European Council, the leaders of the 27 member states of the European Union agreed, with some modifications, to an economic...
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (third from left) and the leaders of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovenia in Vienna on March 16.
April 5, 2021
Speaking two weeks before the March 25-26 video conference of the European Council, the heads of state or government of the 27 member states of the European Union, Austrian...