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Viktor Orbán has selected Olivér Várhelyi as Hungary's nominee for European Commissioner, despite Várhelyi's controversial track record in his five years in Brussels. The premier announced the news on Monday after what he described as a "recent consultation" with Ursula von der Leyen, who earlier this month was re-elected as president of the European Commission with a larger-than-expected majority. As her next step, von der Leyen has to set up her new College of Commissioners, made up of the nominees sent by each member state. The president has the sole prerogative to assign policy portfolios ...
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A rather sudden and under-the-radar meeting took place in Serbia's capital last week. A delegation of high-ranking European officials and business leaders made their way to Belgrade for the inconspicuously named "Summit on Strategic Raw Materials", organised by the Serbian government, which produced a single memorandum of understanding. But this event had some A-list guests: Serbia rolled out the red carpet for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, European Commission Vice-President for the European Green Deal Maroš Šefčovič, and the chief executives of major European banks such as the European Bank ...
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Mark Rutte has made it! NATO finally appointed the outgoing Dutch prime minister as its next boss. This move became a formality after his only rival for the post, Romania’s president Klaus Iohannis, quit the race, his bid having failed to gain traction. NATO leaders will officially welcome him to their table at a summit in Washington in a little over a week. For Ukraine, the appointment of Rutte, a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin who described the so-called Russian peace plan as "absolutely crazy", was great news. And there was more good news for Kyiv this week. The EU formally opened talks on...
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By opening the membership negotiations with Ukraine, the EU has decided to face its biggest moment of truth in decades. The eastern European country of some 44 million is by far the biggest potential member state — by surface area, it is larger than the bloc's current number one, France — and integrating it could prove to be a major existential matter. During the "Big Bang" enlargement talks in the early 2000s — the first round of integration of the former socialist countries, some of which had been under Soviet influence for decades — the EU negotiators had a mantra: "Big countries, big probl...
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Formal talks on Ukraine and Moldova’s accession to the European Union kick off on Tuesday, in a development hailed historic and set to bolster hopes both countries will one day become EU members despite the war raging in Ukraine. The opening of talks will take place in two consecutive Intergovernmental Conferences on Tuesday afternoon in Luxembourg, with the two hopeful countries, the European Commission and the rotating presidency of the Council, currently held by Belgium, all represented. The Ukrainian delegation will be headed by the country’s deputy prime minister for European integration,...
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The socialists and democrats (S&D) came in second in the European elections, but did not gain seats - where do they go from here? As the group votes in its chair and vice-chairs today (25 June) and tomorrow, we ask where the group is heading. Radio Schuman talked to Brando Benifei, a re-elected MEP from the Italian Partito Democratico that is now the largest delegations within the socialist family. We dived into what it means for Ukraine and Moldova to enter into negotiation talks to join the EU, with the first intergovernmental conferences today in Luxembourg. Lastly, we also looked closer at...
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A Hungarian should no longer steer the European Commission’s department in charge of the EU’s future enlargement, the chair of the European Parliament’s EU-Moldova delegation, Siegfried Mureșan, has said. His warning comes amid an imminent reshuffle in the EU executive, where for the past five years Hungary’s Olivér Várhelyi has been the Commissioner in charge of the enlargement and neighbourhood portfolio after he was appointed to the job by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Orbán’s government has since repeatedly attempted to slow down or completely derail Ukraine’s and Moldova’s bids to join the...
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The European Commission has told EU member states that both Ukraine and Moldova have met the necessary criteria to kick off formal negotiations on their accession to the bloc. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has injected a new sense of urgency in the EU's enlargement policy, with Kyiv and Chișinău both granted candidate status just months after Russian tanks first entered Ukrainian territory in February 2022. But the accession process is notoriously long, with countries required to meet a series of judicial, constitutional and economic reforms before they can progress onto the next stage of their...
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Ministers from twelve EU countries have called for the next steps in Ukraine and Moldova's EU membership bids to be opened before the end of June, when the Hungarian government of Viktor Orbán is due to take on the six-month rotating presidency of the Council of the EU. In a letter addressed to Belgian foreign minister Hadja Lahbib, whose government currently presides over the Council, the ministers say that swift progress on both Kyiv and Chișinău's accession process would "boost morale and further the work on reforms in these countries." The letter, first reported on by Euractiv, was spearhe...
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