Tag: Negotiations
Murdered Maltese journalist’s son blasts EU media freedom law – POLITICO
When a car bomb killed Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017, Brussels promised action to better protect journalists. The European Commission last year forwarded a directive to combat strategic lawsuits against public participation (or SLAPPs), which are used to censor and silence public critics.
But in an interview with POLITICO’s EU Confidential podcast, Daphne Caruana Galizia’s son Andrew Caruana Galizia has lambasted the EU’s watershed anti-SLAPP law as insufficient. “In reality, the proposal as it stands would not
European Parliament set to grow by 15 MEPs in 2024 – POLITICO
BRUSSELS — An extra 15 MEPs will take up their seats in the European Parliament following next year’s EU elections, after governments struck a preliminary agreement on the size and shape of its composition.
The biggest winners are France, Spain and the Netherlands, as each of these countries will gain two MEPs, while the countries that will add one more are Austria, Belgium, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland, Latvia, Ireland and Denmark, according to a document from the Council of the
EU trade deals risk affordability of generic medicines for Global South – POLITICO
Ban Ki-Moon is the 8th U.N. secretary-general and Club de Madrid honorary member. Winnie Byanyima is the executive director of UNAIDS.
India has long been known as the “pharmacy of the world,” producing generic medicines at prices that other developing countries and global institutions can afford. The country was the single largest supplier of pharmaceutical products to Africa in 2018, and accounted for a fifth of the continent’s pharmaceutical imports.
However, as the European Union now negotiates free
Man Utd transfer news: Club chief lands in UK to finalise Fred exit negotiations | Football | Sport
Galatasaray vice-president Erden Timur is understood to have flown to England on Wednesday night in a bid to push through the signing of Manchester United midfielder Fred. The combative 30-year-old Brazilian is top of the Turkish giants’ summer shortlist after they wrapped up the acquisitions of Wilfried Zaha and Mauro Icardi and Old Trafford chiefs are willing to do business with their European counterparts.
United triggered a one-year extension clause within Fred’s contract last season and are now demanding a
Feijóo’s numbers don’t add up – POLITICO
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MADRID — Alberto Núñez Feijóo may not want to admit it but his hope of being Spain’s next prime minister may have to be lowered.
On Monday night, the leader of the center-right Popular Party, which won the most votes in last Sunday’s national election in Spain but fell short of securing a governing majority, was left without options to form a government after two key regional parties rejected
Admitting Ukraine will be the EU’s biggest geopolitical contribution to the war – POLITICO
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The European Commission finally delivered its long-anticipated oral report on Ukraine’s progress last month, looking at the headway made toward the seven reforms the country will need to pass if European Union leaders are to green-light opening accession negotiations with Kyiv.
On reforms relating to the judiciary, Kyiv
Is Kemi Badenoch still the future? UK Tories aren’t so sure – POLITICO
LONDON — It’s been quite a year for Kemi Badenoch, propelled from little-known minister to Tory leadership hopeful, to Cabinet big-hitter and beyond.
The U.K. business and trade secretary used last July’s Conservative Party leadership contest to launch herself from relative obscurity to political stardom, and 12 months later finds herself firmly seated within the top tier of Rishi Sunak’s ministers.
For many, Badenoch is now the next great hope for British conservatism, her right-wing sensibilities, dry sense of humor
Scoop! Why Ben from Ben & Jerry’s blames America for war in Ukraine – POLITICO
Ben Cohen wasn’t talking about ice cream. He was talking about American militarism.
At 72, the co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is bald and bespectacled. He looks fit, cherubic even, but when he got going on what it was like to grow up during the Cold War, his tone became less playful and more assertive — almost defiant.
“I had his image of these two countries facing each other, and each one had this huge pile of shiny,
The Potemkin lobby shaping the EU’s agricultural policy – POLITICO
BRUSSELS — The European Union’s biggest farming lobby claims to represent all the bloc’s agricultural workers, but Stela Zămoiu doesn’t believe it speaks for farmers like her.
Zămoiu, 61, remembers when the land around her was full of smallholders. Today, her three hectares in eastern Romania are surrounded by large, industrial farms. When she dies, she expects her property to be swallowed up by one of her neighbors.
“The village has grown old,” she says. “After the elders die, the
How Brexit betrayed the UK fishing industry – POLITICO
The Kirkella’s yellow and white facade bathed in bright January sunshine as workers loaded pallets of food and other essential supplies onboard the imposing 81-meter fishing vessel.
That evening, she departed the port city of Hull in northeast England for the freezing waters and punishing conditions of the Arctic Ocean, a perilous voyage usually reserved for summer, when the days are not so bleakly dark and the ice so treacherously thick around the archipelago of Svalbard.
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