https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-seeks-ease-rules-poland-baltics-migration-standoff-with-belarus-2021-12-01/ When the border crisis, Belarus allowing immigrants to gain access into the EU through their neighbors borders, hit Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia 3 weeks ago, the migration rules were put into question. As the crisis has continued the EU has grown more wary of how Poland and the baltic states evaluate the asylum seekers that are present at the… Read more »
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/european-diplomats-unsure-if-iran-talks-resume-where-ended-june-2021-11-30/ After 6 years Iran has shown increasing seriousness about resurrecting the 2015 nuclear deal with major powers (US, European Powers, and China). The ideas for the talks started up again this week after a 5-month hiatus. The talks in question ended in 2018 while President Donald Trump was in office, President Trump also imposed harsh economic sanctions on Iran…. Read more »
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-eu-close-deal-new-round-belarus-sanctions-diplomats-say-2021-11-09/ As the border crisis goes on with Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus escalates. The EU has decided to add sanctions on more officials that have been said to have a part in creating the border migrant crisis. The sanctions will be put on more than 30 Bearus officials and companies. The EU and NATO leaders have introduced the sanctions after… Read more »
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission said on Monday it would closely examine whether a new Polish draft law undermines the independence of the judiciary, amid tensions between Brussels and Warsaw over democratic standards. The EU has accused Poland’s ruling nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party of politicizing the judiciary since it swept to power in 2015. PiS argues that… Read more »
Europe’s top court ruled Thursday that a former vice president of Spain’s Catalonia region who is serving a prison sentence for launching a banned independence referendum should have the right to parliamentary immunity. The European Court of Justice found that Oriol Junqueras, who was part of the Catalan Cabinet that went ahead with a banned secession referendum in October 2017, had a right to immunity… Read more »
Tyler Cadenas | October 10, 2018 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has major disagreements with Italy’s plan to increase it’s borrowing next year. Italy currently borrows 130% of its GDP, second only to Greece in the EU. The IMF has pushed Italy to reevaluate its decision to increase borrowing rates. Critics of Italy’s government have claimed that failure to follow… Read more »
The International Monetary Fund has thrown its weight behind Brussels in its battle with Italy’s coalition government over plans to increase the indebted country’s borrowing in its next budget. The Washington-based lender of last resort, which is holding its annual conference in Bali this week, warned Rome to abide by the EU’s financial rulebook or risk a rebellion by investors… Read more »
https://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/09/14/this-summers-migration-flows-almost-double-than-2017-greek-minister-says/ In an interview with the Greek Radio Station Real FM, Greece’s Minister for Migration Policy Dimitris Vitsas said that Migration flows during summer 2018 almost doubled compared to the same period in 2017. ”This has created a big problem in the reception and identification centers. In Moria camp in Lesvos, about 3,500 people left and 5,500 arrived from the… Read more »
Greek Migration Policy minister, Dimitris Vitsas, claims that the number of incoming refugees has doubled from the Summer of 2017 to the Summer of 2018. He also claims that this is the fault of the distribution centers that are in place in the immediate migration countries, such as itself and Italy. ”This has created a big problem in the reception… Read more »
The EU parliament voted Wednesday to sanction Hungary for posing a “systemic threat” to EU values and the rule of law, initiating punitive action under the EU’s rarely invoked Article 7, which could suspend Hungary’s voting rights.
