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The European Court of Justice has confirmed that it will issue a much-anticipated ruling over access to information related to Ursula von der Leyen's handling of pandemic vaccine contracts next Wednesday (17 July), the eve of a crucial vote on the Commission President's reappointment in the European Parliament. Several Green MEPs filed requests to access COVID-19 vaccine contracts in 2021 negotiated by the Commission and in an attempt to understand terms and conditions of the agreements, brokered by the EU executive. The ruling is expected to be publicly available by early afternoon on Wednesd...
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Although MEPs are discussing how to restructure the internal configuration of the European Parliament - and whether to create new committees for the new five-year mandate - in the end it seems that nothing will really change. Apart from the possible upgrading of SEDE, there have been proposals from various political groups to create a specific committee on health, separate from the existing environment configuration, and to turn the subcommittee on human rights (DROI) into a full committee, to name but a few. All in vain, as the three subcommittees are likely to remain as they are, several sou...
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The newly formed far-right alliance, launched just last week, has succeeded the previous far-right group in the European Parliament, Identity and Democracy (ID), which has now disbanded. The Patriots have swiftly expanded with many parties announcing last week that they would join theproject, culminating this morning in significant additions with France’s Rassemblement National (RN) and Italy’s Lega—two key former ID parties that were yet to join the group. While Lega was dominant within ID in the previous mandate, the largest delegation within the Patriots will be Marine Le Pen’s RN, with thi...
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A month after the EU elections, the new far-right Patriot's group is the only one remaining to be constituted. The emergence of the new far-right alliance "Patriots for Europe," founded by Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz and former Czech premier Andrej Babis's ANO, reshuffled the cards in the far-right pack. Heralded from a Viennese hotel last weekend with the clear intention of becoming the largest right-wing group in the European Parliament, the alliance began drawing parties from the orbit of the Identity and Democracy (ID) group, such as founder party the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) and later last ...
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The recently ended legislative mandate has underscored the importance of health in EU policymaking, even though national governments still retain primary competence over the sector. The EU's Beating Cancer Plan was a top priority for the EU executive before COVID-19 elevated health on the Commission’s agenda, resulting in the bloc’s first budget line dedicated to health. Sources in the largest Parliament’s group, the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), suggested that MEPs might look to establish a standalone health committee with legislative powers, which could further amplify the focu...
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Last week Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni blocked the EU job nomination package, including abstaining from on Ursula Von Der Leyen as a candidate for re-election as EU Commission President. She argued the deal had problems of both “method and merit”. Before the Italian parliament, she said it was “undemocratic” because it didn’t take into account the people’s vote. With the double “no” to Kallas and Costa, questions are being asked in Brussels and in Rome if Italy will be isolated. Some analysts say it’s just a way for the Italian leader to buy more time. With only a couple of weeks to g...
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Chances of EU-Russia relations improving are "bad" after the union's top job appointments the night before, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary said on Friday Dmitry Peskov specifically name-checked Ursula von der Leyen, who was nominated for another term as president of the European Commission, and Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, chosen as the next EU foreign policy chief. “Mrs von der Leyen is not a supporter of normalising relations between the EU and Russia," he said. “This is how we know her, this is how we remember her.” It is unclear whether Peskov's comments were re...
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Hungarian and Italian Prime Ministers Viktor Orbán and Giorgia Meloni accused the EU of being undemocratic after the pair were excluded from preliminary negotiations and failed to secure a high-level seat in the next political cycle for their political groups. After several hours of negotiations, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who hails from the centrist European People’s Party (EPP) was nominated president of the Commission, former Socialist Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa as president of the European Council, and Liberal Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas as the...
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Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni joined her Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán last night in opposing the top jobs package agreed by the EU Council, but Meloni's opposition demonstrates how she must negotiate a delicate balancing act as she seeks to carve out a greater role for Italy in the next European Commission. "I decided not to support it out of respect for the citizens and the indications that came from those citizens during the elections," the Italian premier said, adding: "We continue to work to finally give Italy the weight it deserves in Europe." Meloni voted against António Costa as ...
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In a shorter-than-expected European Council meeting, the leaders of the EU's 27 member states approved the candidates for the bloc's top jobs: Ursula von der Leyen as president of the European Commission, António Costa as president of the European Council, and Kaja Kallas as the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. The approval was the first step of a mechanism that will start working to tie all loose knots in the composition of the next European Union’s leadership. António Costa's election by the Council is final and he will take over from current president Charles Mic...
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