Tag: Euroskeptics
Migration is derailing leaders from Biden to Macron. Who’s next? – POLITICO
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BRUSSELS — Western leaders are grappling with how to handle two era-defining wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine. But there’s another issue, one far closer to home, that’s derailing governments in Europe and America: migration.
In recent days, U.S. President Joe Biden, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak all hit trouble amid intense domestic pressure to tackle immigration; all three emerged weakened
Nips, tucks and paperwork – POLITICO
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STRASBOURG — The European Parliament’s response to Qatargate: Fight corruption with paperwork.
When Belgian police made sweeping arrests and recovered €1.5 million from Parliament members in a cash-for-influence probe last December, it sparked mass clamoring for a deep clean of the institution, which has long languished with lax ethics and transparency rules, and even weaker enforcement.
Seven months later, the Parliament and its president, Roberta Metsola, can certainly claim
German far right picks EU lead candidate, wants European anti-migrant ‘fortress’ – POLITICO
Germany’s increasingly popular far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party elected the controversial MEP Maximilian Krah as its lead candidate for next year’s European Parliament election, while vowing to challenge the EU from the inside and turn it into a “fortress” against migrants.
More than 65 percent of the about 600 AfD delegates at a party gathering on Saturday in Magdeburg, in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt, voted for Krah as their lead candidate for the European Parliament election, which
When will Europe learn to defend itself? – POLITICO
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PARIS/BERLIN — Thirty years after the horrors of the Balkan wars laid bare Western Europe’s incapacity to deal with conflict on European soil, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is demonstrating how little has changed.
As Yugoslavia started to break apart in 1991, it fell to the Luxembourgish Foreign Minister Jacques Poos to make the ill-fatedly optimistic remark: “This is the hour of Europe, not that of the Americans.”
Since then, there have been years
Marine Le Pen and the end of the EU as we know it – POLITICO
What would happen if the far-right leader were given an opportunity to carry out her proposals?
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The date is May 25, 2022. President Marine Le Pen has been president of France for less than a month. Europe’s leaders — her peers now — have barely recovered from the shock of the election when she arrives in Brussels for her first trip abroad.
Diplomats and journalists look on in slack disbelief as the National Rally