The European Union is expected to clear the way for accession talks to get underway with Ukraine and Moldova after Hungary dropped its veto. Ukraine will have to negotiate its way into the club by proving that it matches up to EU law. The first so-called “cluster” of topics to Read more
Image credit: AP Photo Member states of the Council of Europe, including the UK, France and Poland, have unanimously agreed to clarify how the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) should be interpreted by national authorities in migrant cases. It’s an attempt to give governments more power to act to Read more
In a landmark ruling at the European Court of Justice, judges have strongly condemned Hungary’s ‘child protection’ law as illegal and in breach of fundamental rights. The ruling puts pressure on the incoming new government to row back on Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s (pictured below) anti-LGBTQ agenda. Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ law Under Hungary’s Read more
Image released by the Royal Thai Navy shows Thai cargo ship, Mayuree Naree, that was struck and set ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz. Image credit: Royal Thai Navy Oil prices spiked again overnight as promises to release emergency supplies failed to calm markets. Iran has closed off the Strait Read more
Rob Jetten, leader of the D66 party. Image credit: AP Four months after a dramatic election that saw the far right lose a third of their seats, a new government has taken office in the Netherlands. A liberal-centre right coalition has now formed a minority government, freezing out both the Read more
Nato’s Secretary General Mark Rutte said the new mission will “bring together Nato and allied activities in the High North”. Image credit: AP Nato has announced a new mission to protect the Arctic including Greenland, just weeks after Donald Trump threatened European nations with tariffs if they blocked his bid Read more
US President Donald Trump has ruled out invading Greenland during a much-anticipated speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos. “People thought I would use force. I don’t have to use force, I don’t want to use force, I won’t use force,” Trump announced. But his lust for Greenland has not subsided and he Read more
The UK government has reached a deal with the EU to rejoin the Erasmus+ student exchange programme. The programme allows British students to live and study in EU countries for up to a year, and for EU nationals to do the same in the UK. When the UK left the Read more
Andrej Babiš Populist politician and billionaire Andrej Babiš has been sworn in as prime minister of the Czech Republic, the latest thorn in the side of the European Union. Babiš stood for election on a Trump-inspired ‘Czechia first’ platform that has worried Ukraine and the European Union. He will lead Read more
Image credit: AP France will introduce voluntary conscription from next summer, President Emmanuel Macron has announced. Standing in front of a line-up from the Mountain Infantry Brigade in Varces, near Grenoble, the French president said: “Whenever history demands it, the youth of France have committed themselves and mobilised.” “Volunteers will Read more