Politics

16-09-2024

Vestager welcomes Draghi report, asks businesses to trust EU single market

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As her double term as the European Commission's competition chief draws to a close, Margrethe Vestager has welcomed the long-awaited Draghi report and said the single market must work better to allow companies to gain success fairly.

03-09-2024

German progressive parties to blame for far-right election victory, says leading French left-wing MEP

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Germany’s progressive parties bear significant responsibility for the historic surge in support for the far-right AfD in Sunday’s state elections in eastern Germany, Manon Aubry, the French co-chair of the Left Group in the European Parliament, told Euractiv in an interview on Monday (2 September).

03-06-2024

Facing headwinds, the Greens push for new audiences

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In a push to counter an expected drop in seats in the new European Parliament, the Greens are banking on extending their demographic and geographical base, their lead candidate Terry Reintke told Euractiv.

13-05-2024

Manon Aubry slams French left division in the face of rising far-right in EU elections

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In an exclusive interview with Euractiv, French top candidate of La France insoumise (LFI, The Left) for the 2024 EU elections Manon Aubry, strongly critised a divided left in the face of a far-right at the top of the polls.

03-05-2024

Greek left boss ‘grateful’ for EU prosecutor seeking justice at home

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The EU Prosecutor is doing a good job in investigating cases related to the rule of law as Greek citizens mistrust domestic justice and the conservative New Democracy government (EPP), Greece’s main opposition Syriza party (EU Left) leader Stefanos Kasselakis told Euractiv.com in an interview.

Migration 12-04-2024

Migration Pact ‘comes at expense of human rights’, Amnesty International warns

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The Asylum and Migration Pact adopted by the European Parliament on Wednesday (10 April) will “weaken the right to asylum” and enshrine in law an ailing approach to migration policy, Eve Geddie, head of Amnesty International’s Brussels office, told Euractiv in an interview.

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Elections 25-03-2024

ALDE’s Strack-Zimmermann calls for stronger European approach to security

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European liberals have approved the nomination of Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann as ALDE’s lead candidate for the June elections. Strack-Zimmermann spoke to Euractiv’s Christoph Schwaiger following the 20 March ‘Renew Europe Now’ election campaign launch.

08-03-2024

More gender-disaggregated data is needed on European women’s political participation

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To understand the obstacles women face when participating in politics, national authorities need to generate more gender-disaggregated data, Policy and Campaign Officer for the European Women’s Lobby, Jéromine Andolfatto, told Euractiv.

06-03-2024

EU socialists set red lines: No ECR, far right people around the table after elections

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No member from the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR) or far right Identity and Democracy will sit around the negotiating table to form a pro-EU majority in the next European Parliament, Giacomo Filibeck, secretary general of the Party of European Socialists (PES) told Euractiv in an interview.

Elections 04-03-2024

EPP boss: Key policy portfolios should be in EU centre-right’s ‘steady’ hands after elections

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The political balance of power that will emerge after the EU elections in June will be a “straightforward call” for the EU centre-right to keep key EU policy portfolios under its helm, Thanasis Bakolas, Secretary General of the European People’s Party, Europe’s largest political family, told Euractiv in an interview ahead of the party’s congress on 6-7 March in Bucharest.

Brexit 21-02-2024

Beware – far right still wants out of the EU, Brexit negotiator Barnier warns

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Leaving the EU remains the far right’s ultimate goal, even if they stay quiet about it ahead of election time, former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier told Euractiv in an interview on Tuesday (20 February), warning that the far right has not learned the lessons of Brexit.

Elections 19-02-2024

Far right, conservatives, liberals converging before EU elections, leading Left MEP says

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The far right is gaining momentum in Europe ahead of EU elections and is converging with the right, centre-right, and liberals on policies and politics ahead of EU elections, the co-president of The Left group at the European Parliament, Manon Aubry, told Euractiv in an interview

Šuica: Commission to revamp its online citizen engagement platform

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The European Commission will release a revamped version of its Have Your Say online citizen’s engagement portal this month, Commission Vice-President Dubravka Šuica told Euractiv.

Elections 24-11-2023

French Left MEP: EU must stop false promises to candidate countries

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In an interview with Euractiv France, Manon Aubry, lead candidate of the left-wing party "La France insoumise" ("France Unbowed", GUE/NGL) for the 2024 European elections, reflects on the current European mandate (2019-2024) and her wishes for the next one (2024-2029).

23-11-2023

Schulz: The ‘progressives’ struggle with internal divisions, vague messages

Est. 6min

The right-wing camp in Europe always presents a united front regardless of internal differences, while the progressive forces are divided and do not know how to articulate and effectively communicate their messages, said Martin Schulz, former president of the European Parliament.

Migration 10-10-2023

Swedish migration minister: EU should cooperate with third countries to increase returns

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The EU should increase cooperation with third countries as a means to implement a more effective return policy at the continental level, the Swedish Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard told Euractiv.

Elections 04-10-2023

EU ‘has given too much to the market’, French Greens top candidate says

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"An ill wind is blowing against ecology. It is in these conditions that we are approaching the European elections", warns Marie Toussaint, MEP and head of the list of the French Greens (Europe Écologie - Les Verts, EELV) for the June 2024 elections, in an interview with Euractiv France.

EU Reforms 22-09-2023

EU needs a counterbalance to integration drive, say leading conservatives

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The EU should focus on doing less but doing it better, leading conservatives concluded following a two-day summit of young delegates in Brussels this week, as they seek to counter the push towards more EU integration.

Brexit 04-09-2023

House of Lords EU Affairs chairman: Brexit means UK risks being sidelined in global affairs

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The UK faces a “real risk of being sidelined” on global affairs as a result of Brexit, Peter Ricketts, who chairs the House of Lords European Affairs Committee, told EURACTIV in an interview, all the while praising a thaw in the EU-UK relationship.

Migration 30-08-2023

Greece normalised pushbacks during COVID-19, expert rescuer says

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The first COVID-19 lockdown, combined with a rise in anti-immigration rhetoric has resulted in systemic pushbacks by the Hellenic Coast Guard, sea rescue expert Giannis Skenderoglou told EURACTIV in an interview.

04-08-2023

Anti-EU stance part of German far right’s DNA, says researcher

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Ahead of the EU elections next year, German far-right party AfD is firmly on an EU-sceptic path, with criticism of the European Union being among the only things the whole party can rally behind, researcher Uwe Jun told EURACTIV in an interview.

31-07-2023

DG MEME author: Eurocrats call me ‘troublemaker’

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Fabio Mauri, the man behind DG MEME, a popular Twitter account with 100,000 followers poking fun at EU politics and policy-making, told EURACTIV that he is regarded as a "troublemaker" by European Commission's top management but that this does not put him off.

17-07-2023

Climate change main challenge for EU hopeful Albania’s agriculture sector

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It is not just migration and the mammoth task of aligning with the EU legislation that Albania's agricultural sector has to cope with: According to Agriculture Minister Frida Krifca, climate change is the biggest challenge. Albania opened negotiations with the European …

12-07-2023

Tech careers fail to attract female talent in Spain

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The lack of female role models and success stories during early education undermine the prospects of young girls to engage in technology degrees, president of the Catalan Technology Society and professor of materials and expert in metallurgy at Catalonia’s Polytechnic …