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<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0)”>Which of these European commissioners did not step away from Ursula von der Leyen’s top team this year?</span></strong></p> Jutta Urpilainen Ylva Johansson Mariya Gabriel <p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0)”>Von der Leyen joined Mark Rutte and Giorgia Meloni on a trip to which country to strike a deal to limit migrant departures?</span></strong></p> … Read more
TAIPEI — 2024 will be a bumper year of elections around the world, but one of the first votes on the calendar will also be one of the most hotly contested and consequential: Taiwan, where there are vital strategic interests at play for both the U.S. and China on January 13. If the campaign started … Read more
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. It was February 1991, and the crew of the British frigate HMS Gloucester was scrambling, trying to knock out an Iraqi Silkworm missile heading toward the USS Missouri — a World War II-era battleship recommissioned by former United States President Ronald Reagan. The extreme jolt from the … Read more
Sakharov Prize to Jina Mahsa Amini and the Iranian women’s protest movementAt 11.30, President Roberta Metsola will award the 2023 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Jina Mahsa Amini and the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement in Iran. Ahead of the ceremony, there will be a press conference with President Metsola and representatives of the … Read more
LONDON — The U.K. government softened its controversial plan to make it more difficult for people to bring non-British spouses to the U.K. Under a major legal migration shake-up announced earlier this month, the Home Office declared that it would significantly raise the minimum salary that British citizens or migrants already settled in the U.K. … Read more
WHEN: Tuesday 12 December at 11.00 CET WHERE: Press conference room Daphne Caruana Galizia, European Parliament in Strasbourg Representatives of the 2023 Sakharov Prize laureates will be present at the press conference: – Mrs Afsoon Najafi, Iranian women’s rights defender ; – Mrs Mersedeh Shahinkar, Iranian women’s rights defender ; – Mr Saleh Nikbakht, academic, … Read more
“If you influence the state of California, that has significant heft at the federal level, too,” British Consul General Tammy Sandhu told Playbook during an interview on a fall evening at her office in a high rise off San Francisco’s Market Street. “What we recognize is that you can actually achieve a lot — sometimes … Read more
The laureates were represented by Saleh Nikbakht, academic and lawyer representing Jina Mahsa Amini’s family; and Afsoon Najafi and Mersedeh Shahinkar, Iranian women’s rights defenders who left Iran in 2023. Opening the award ceremony, President Metsola declared: “This years’ Sakharov prize for Freedom of Thought, awarded to Jina Masha Amini and the Woman, Life, Freedom … Read more
France’s newly appointed health minister is under investigation for accepting undeclared luxury gifts while working as a pharmacist. Agnès Firmin Le Bodo is suspected of having received over €20,000 worth of undisclosed gifts between 2015 and 2020, when she was working as a pharmacist in Normandy, according to an investigation by French website Mediapart. According to … Read more
The Portuguese nominee João Leão was supported with 328 votes in favour, 67 against and 198 abstentions. The Swedish nominee Hans Lindblad was supported with 498 votes in favour, 15 against and 74 abstentions. The candidates Mr Leão has been Professor of Economics and Public Finance and Vice-Rector at the University Institute of Lisbon. From … Read more
