Consider Anca Gheorghe, a 23-year-old Roma woman from Romania. She attended a poorly resourced school with unqualified teachers and faced unfair discrimination, leaving her with limited opportunities. Left with virtually no other options, she joined an EU-funded vocational program to train as a hairdresser, hoping for financial independence. Yet, there are already enough hairdressers in … Read more
Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova confirmed that Lavrov intended to make the trip to Vedomosti, while Malta’s Embassy in Russia said invitations to the Dec. 5-6 meeting “will be sent to all OSCE delegations in due course.” The last time Lavrov visited an EU country was a trip to Stockholm for an OSCE gathering … Read more
“I consider it a top priority to launch the work on the Commission proposal for the animal transport regulation as soon as possible,” she told POLITICO, adding that there’s already “sufficient data to start digging into the proposal, so there is no need to delay the process further with yet another EPRS study.” While the … Read more
Electoral participation also seems to have improved, although only slightly and from an eye-catchingly low baseline. Exit poll data published by Alpha Research at 19:00 as the polls closed showed 38 percent voter turnout, up from 34.4 percent in the June election. “People want a government, [they want] security and stability,” Borissov told reporters in … Read more
“Rather than new legislative proposals, we can achieve our objectives by better implementing and enforcing existing legislation while using incentives and new market-based tools to promote change,” Hansen said in reply to a question on whether the EU’s executive would propose the framework next year. Costas Kadis Cyprus’ Costas Kadis, the commissioner candidate for fisheries … Read more
“The Parliament and the Council have not established that they had sufficient information at their disposal when that measure was adopted to enable them to assess its proportionality,” the Court of Justice of the EU found. The truck return obligation was, by far, the most controversial part of the Mobility Package reforms, which introduced new … Read more
After a ‘will she, won’t she’ few days, Ursula von der Leyen is on Tuesday set to unveil her top team at the European Commission. But who will get which portfolio? Stay with POLITICO for updates on the big announcement and for instant analysis of what it all means. Read original article here Denial of … Read more
The deadline for putting forward names for the next European Commission is the end of August. With that date approaching fast, and now that Ursula von der Leyen is back from her summer holiday in Germany, here are the nominees so far (remember that all of them, except for von der Leyen herself, need to … Read more
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says achieving Nigeria’s projected 3.1 per cent economic growth outlook for 2024 is dependent on implementing stronger reforms. Christian Ebeke, IMF Resident Representative, said this on Tuesday at the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) International Business Conference and Expo 2024, which has the theme “Invest Nigeria.” Mr Ebeke … Read more
For this reason, the attack drew comparisons to a killing of a police officer in the city of Mannheim in early June by a knife-wielding Afghan man whose asylum claim had initially been rejected — but who was nevertheless able to stay in Germany. Following that attack, Scholz vowed to increase deportations of rejected asylum applicants. … Read more
