Romania is set to lose around €770 million in EU recovery funds after its interim government and parliament failed to pass a key reform.
https://t.co/gVaeZmrTma
Iceland’s EU vote is set to go down to the wire, with No campaigners gaining ground as concerns over fisheries and national sovereignty eclipse geopolitical turmoil.
https://t.co/2zT1s1SENL
Berlin is seeking to leverage its growing military weight in NATO to secure the election of General Carsten Breuer as the next chair of the alliance’s Military Committee, with the final decision due on 19 September in Denmark.
https://t.co/XCUneSHxP5
EU commissioners will gather next week at the site of a former human zoo ... to discuss migration.
The Africa Palace was built in 1897 by King Leopold II, and he put over 250 Congolese people, abducted from central Africa, on show there, in mock villages. 7 of them died.
Iceland’s knife-edge EU referendum, the Commission’s migration talks at the site of a former human zoo, and the blast that exposed a vulnerability at the heart of Europe’s Banking Union.
Read today’s Rapporteur 👇
https://t.co/3Qf27iToDi
Spain is fast-tracking asylum procedures and the return of undocumented migrants as a step to bring national legislation in line with tougher EU rules.
https://t.co/yZCTsdnhEI
Six fiscally hawkish EU countries on Thursday repeated demands for a drastically smaller future seven-year EU budget at a time when national governments face “painful fiscal consolidation” at home.
https://t.co/AIVk30Ooul
PARIS – Ursula von der Leyen warned China on Thursday that the EU was prepared to press the trigger on trade-defence measures if talks with Beijing fail to address mounting economic imbalances.
https://t.co/V1IGBUdh4R
Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, convenes his “like-minded” counterparts from Finland, Austria, Sweden, the Netherlands and Denmark to discuss the post-2027 budget over lunch on Thursday.
https://t.co/52W7fXUDHN
After a summer of relentless Russian strikes – on a scale not seen since 2022 – Ukraine is heading into another winter with its air defences under pressure and too few Patriot interceptors.
https://t.co/68Bc7cdayG
The Rhine should be granted legal personality to protect its interests as record-low water levels increase pressure to keep the river navigable, campaigners argue.
https://t.co/iQuGZYMymg
Warsaw wants answers after Mario Draghi’s new competitiveness group overlooked the EU’s east.
Meanwhile, the frugals plot an EU budget revolt and Marine Le Pen woos France’s business elite.
Today’s Rapporteur 👇
https://t.co/YszYhJmPqT
“Workin’ 9 to 5”, an anthem about office class struggle and feminist solidarity, is not usually associated with high-flying political aides at the top of the EU institutions, but Brussels has its own Dolly Parton hit.
https://t.co/FJScqiD1NO