The group of experts created by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to study new formulas to restrict minors' access to social networks will deliver its final report on July 13. The document will include concrete recommendations for Brussels to consider whether to promote legislative changes...
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 Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has advocated this Friday that the enlargement of the European Union should advance in a "faster" and "more credible" way, insisting that it is a "strategic" decision that will bring "more security, prosperity, and greater weight to Europe in the...
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has warned that the recent air alerts in the Baltic countries due to the entry of drones into their airspace do not constitute "isolated incidents," but rather "a deliberate strategy by Russia to destabilize democratic societies." Therefore, she has stressed...
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the European Commissioner for Defence, Andrius Kubilius, are travelling to Lithuania this Tuesday to coordinate with the Baltic countries the reaction to drone incursions into their airspace and to analyze what measures Brussels can take to strengthen its defence...
In breakups, there is a universal repertoire of refrains, slogans, and wild cards that each person uses to soften the situation as best they see fit. The historical champion remains the classic “it’s not you, it’s me”, although variants such as “work overload”, “different life stages”, or the always useful...
In the corridors of Brussels -that hybrid ecosystem between technocracy, expensive coffee and measured-smile diplomacy- journalists talk. They always talk. And when they lower their voices in huddles, far from microphones and cameras, the tone is usually more revealing than any official press conference. It is not necessary to be a...
The European Union has entered a phase of political readjustment with Hungary following the electoral victory of Péter Magyar, who has initiated contacts with community institutions to unblock European funds suspended in recent years under the mandate of Viktor Orbán. The future Hungarian prime minister met this Wednesday in Brussels with the...
In Brussels, the current legislature promised to be the moment when the continent would simplify all the bureaucratic hurdles that were preventing it from recovering economic and business leadership. With this purpose, the European Commission presented its “instruction manual” last week under the strategy “One Europe, One Single Market”, and...
European leaders face this Friday the second day of their summit in the Cypriot capital with their sights set on debates about the economic competitiveness of the continent. The drums of war continue to resonate among the Twenty-Seven after having addressed yesterday the issue of the war in the Middle...
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 tennis, after moving agilely, stopping, measuring and executing the impact, one must return “to the center”. It is the most efficient position to defend the next play and deploy strategy. A continuous plan that develops by managing each point. If we change the court for the Schuman roundabout, the European...
The European Union is taking increasingly more steps in its fight to protect minors in digital environments, an area that has become one of the main regulatory concerns of the community bloc. This very week, the European Commission announced that its new application designed to ensure age verification is already...
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, set during her speech on the State of the Union in September the protection of minors in digital environments as one of the priorities of her second mandate. Thus, on this path, one of the solutions she is preparing to...
The board on the table. As many players as parliamentary groups. There are those capable of reading several moves ahead, while others assume they will have to sacrifice a piece and others fight not to be left without a king. In the background, the referee who hopes the board will...
After negotiations between the diplomatic teams of the United States and Iran failed in their attempt to find a solution to the conflict this week, the European Commission begins to unveil some of the details of the energy plan it is working on to address the crisis. “The measures must...
The Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, Teresa Ribera, has a new right hand in her cabinet. The Irishman Anthony Whelan has been chosen to occupy one of the most relevant technical positions within the community executive. Specifically, he will be at the head of the Directorate-General for Competition. Whelan is...
In the European Union, the news of the ceasefire between the United States and Iran was received with some optimism. But this Wednesday's attacks by Israel on Lebanon have ended up dynamiting that nervous calm. The European Commission has branded the situation a “very serious” escalation, because it considers it...
The new diplomatic turn by the US president, Donald Trump, and the agreement for a ceasefire in Iran have given new breathing room to oil markets. Crude prices have plummeted amid expectations that the new scenario opens the possibility that the Strait of Hormuz begins to operate with some normality. Far...
For years there was an expression that in Brussels was pronounced with care, almost with the discomfort of someone who fears saying something inappropriate: strategic autonomy. It was not forbidden, but it was not welcome either. It sounded too ambitious, too Gaullist, perhaps even too European. The dominant logic was different....
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...
For years, in Brussels, a mantra was repeated: “renewables, renewables, renewables”. And yes: renewables are essential. But this week the president of the European Commission herself, Ursula von der Leyen, has verbalized something that many citizens, technicians, and companies have been warning about for a long time: turning its back...
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...