A proposed safeguard to last up to 15 years after EU accession would make it easier to suspend future member states' voting ...
France is no Greece. A full-blown debt crisis is not yet on the cards. But as things stand, a protracted muddling through ...
Hungary is starting to address the EU's concerns over the rule of law and judicial independence, and the EU seems tkeen to ...
I would like to caution against large cuts. It would risk cutting deep into critical priorities that we all together have ...
Portuguese prime minister told MEPs that solving the cost of living crisis is key to keeping the far-right out of power, as ...
Germany’s former spy chief now stands accused of selling thousands of ultra-sensitive intelligence files to foreign clients, in a scandal insiders warn could cripple Berlin’s trust with allied ...
EU governments continue to authorise arms sales to Israel despite rules and the EU treaties that require them to protect ...
The battle for Kyiv's skies aside, Ukraine’s air raids on Russian oil sites saw it boast that over half of Moscow’s refinery ...
If Brussels accepts this vague hunt for “Muslim Brotherhood networks”, the same logic could later be turned against almost ...
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Farid Hafez

William and Mary university, Virginia, and senior researcher at Georgetown University’s the Bridge Initiative.
The EU wants to bring new countries on board faster. But after years of waiting, will the Commission’s new proposals actually ...