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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the other G7 and EU leaders at Cornwall last weekend.
June 18, 2021
Judging from the press commentaries, one might think the G7 leaders met in Cornwall last week primarily to urge British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to cooperate with the EU...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen raising possibility of infringement procedure against Germany, May 2020.
June 10, 2021
On May 5, 2020, the German Federal Constitutional Court issued a ruling in regard to the European Central Bank’s Public Sector Asset Purchase Programme (PSPP) that sent shock...
CDU chair Armin Laschet congratulating Saxony-Anhalt CDU leader Reiner Haseloff at today’s meeting of the CDU Executive Committee in Berlin.
June 7, 2021
On Sunday, voters in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt went to the polls to elect a new Landtag, the state’s legislative assembly. The last of several state elections this...
Portuguese Prime Minister and Council President António Costa, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and European Parliament President David Sassoli after signing documents creating the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility.
June 3, 2021
Last July, the heads of state or government of the 27 member states of the EU, meeting as the European Council, agreed on a recovery plan to assist the states in recovering...
Ryanair flight from Athens arriving in Vilnius, Lithuania after forced landing in Minsk, Belarus.
May 26, 2021
The European Union is not noted for acting promptly and decisively when confronted with a serious geopolitical challenge. But on Monday, only a day after Belarus, claiming to...
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin speaking to the parliament Tuesday after it approved the financing arrangement for the EU’s recovery plan.
May 21, 2021
On Tuesday, a large collective sigh of relief could be heard across Europe; Finland’s parliament had approved, by the narrowest of margins, the EU’s proposed financing of its...
Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party, campaigning prior to Thursday’s election.
May 10, 2021
On Thursday, Scottish voters went to the polls to elect their Parliament. Under the provisions of the Additional Member electoral system, 73 of the 129 seats in the...