The president of the European Council, António Costa, has warned countries aspiring to join the European Union that, despite the "sense of urgency" perceived in Brussels to advance enlargement given the current geopolitical context, this will not mean lowering or making more flexible the minimum requirements to join the community...
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has endorsed this Friday in Brussels that the President of the European Council, António Costa, open diplomatic channels with Moscow. However, he has stressed that he does not believe that the European Union should play a mediation role in any peace talks between...
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has endorsed this Friday in Brussels that the President of the European Council, António Costa, explore channels of diplomatic communication with Moscow, although he has stressed that he does not consider that the European Union should act as a mediator in any eventual...
The Heads of State and Government of the European Union have shown conflicting positions on whether it is advisable to reopen lines of communication with Russia for hypothetical peace talks, after the President of the European Council, António Costa, argued during the Thursday night debate that the EU must be...
The elephant is in the room. Rather, the dragon. No one in Brussels wants to mention it explicitly. Everyone is aware that this is an issue that seems already unavoidable. Terms and euphemisms are sought to gloss over it. From "dependencies" to "economic imbalances," a whole jargon has been composed...
The circle of the President of the European Council, António Costa, has sounded out "brief contacts" on the diplomatic level with Russia with the objective of launching "communication channels" that allow the European Union to defend its "specific interests" in the face of hypothetical peace negotiations with Ukraine."In recent weeks,...
The first vice-president of the Government, Antoni Costa, has once again made it clear that he has no intention of holding a bilateral meeting with the Minister of Finance, Arcadi España, to address the new financing model for the autonomous communities."Multilateral negotiation, yes. Smoke screens to divert attention, no," he...
Europe has always harbored the ambition of resembling Pericles' Athens, but its daily reality often resembles more a homeowners' association meeting with simultaneous translation and fire regulations. In this ecosystem, where no one entirely knows who is in charge and everyone discreetly suspects whoever seems to know, "historic" decisions occur...
The President of the European Council, António Costa, has stressed this Thursday that joining the European Union represents "the best way" to channel and resolve bilateral conflicts between the Western Balkan countries, on the eve of the EU-Balkans summit to be held this Friday in Montenegro.Costa made these remarks at...
The President of the European Council, António Costa, has conveyed his "deepest condolences" following the death of a Serbian peacekeeper from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in an attack in the south of the country, an incident in which two Spanish soldiers were also slightly injured."I want...
The President of the European Council, António Costa, defended this Thursday in Mexico the validity of multilateralism and the strengthening of international alliances against those who "prophesy a return to the law of the jungle", underlining the importance of cooperation "against rupture and isolation" in a context in which, he...
The President of the European Council, António Costa, has described as "completely unacceptable" the way in which the Israeli Minister of National Security, the far-right politician Itamar Ben Gvir, has treated the activists of the humanitarian flotilla bound for Gaza, who were detained, handcuffed, and forced to kneel in the...
The Twenty-Seven have overcome the first hours of their summit on the European border with Lebanon, aware that the situation in the Middle East may end up overshadowing the debates on community competitiveness that await them on the table today. With navigation still interrupted in the Strait of Hormuz, the...
In Brussels, next Sunday's appointment is a date that has long been marked on the calendar. One of the most rebellious voices in the European Union measures its strength in elections that, on the continent, are posed as a true referendum on support for the community project. Hungary, which for years...
The president of the European Council, António Costa, has redoubled this Monday the pressure on Tehran by demanding the immediate cessation of attacks in the region and the restoration of freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, at a time of maximum tension after more than five weeks of...
So much did the European Union want its new strategy to strengthen the single market that it took time to learn to forget it 19 days of war and practically five hundred hours of crossed speeches on the defense of international law. In order not to overwhelm “with flowers” the most skeptical,...
After comings and goings. After "realistic" speeches. And faced with a scenario of conflict in Iran that does not seem to be approaching a cessation of hostilities, the European leaders seem to converge towards a common point. The open war is not that of the Europeans, so they should not...
Intentions are one thing. Real conclusions, another. In Brussels, the former abound more. Something seemed to change until the start of the war in Iran, when the twenty-seven European leaders returned to their capitals after an informal meeting in February with a shared idea: to find the recipe for the...
The Twenty-Seven had committed themselves to finding their own "economic miracle" during a summit scheduled for Saint Joseph's Day. A meeting intended to debate the bloc's economic strategy and try to regain leadership and competitiveness in those industrial sectors in which the European Union is starting to fall behind compared...
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, now assures that the European Union maintains firm its commitments to the “search for peace, with the principles of the UN Charter and with international law”. The top leader says that these principles are as central as they were during...