Shortly after Merz took office last month, his interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, announced he would send several thousand additional police to Germany’s borders to conduct checks, declaring it “a clear...
“First of all, I have invited the Google management and important industry representatives to the chancellery for talks in order to examine the alternatives such as voluntary commitments,” said Weimer,...
“The single fund would be the end of the Common Agricultural Policy,” Portuguese Agriculture Minister José Manuel Fernandes said, rejecting Commission ideas to merge farm and regional development funds into...
“We are highly alarmed by these developments,” reads the letter, signed by Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia and Sweden. A series...
Last year’s election saw the FPÖ win the most votes but remain excluded from government. Human rights groups warn that the Austrian government is exaggerating migration problems to justify crackdowns,...
They argued that in some cases, the court “posed too many limitations on the states’ ability to decide whom to expel from their territories” and requested “a new and open...
To put that in perspective, in 2024 nearly 230,000 people applied for asylum in Germany for the first time, according to European statistics. Germany continues to take in the vast...
Nine European leaders are calling for the European Convention on Human Rights to be reinterpreted to allow migrants who commit crimes to be expelled more easily. The European Court of...
Paris intends to present a proposal for discussion by the foreign ministers of EU member countries at the next General Affairs Council on May 27. The proposal, seen by POLITICO,...
Experts say that large swathes of the public have lost confidence in an entrenched political establishment that is seen as having mismanaged the nation while taking care of its own...
The Austrian ministry side-stepped POLITICO’s question on whether the country supports the use of foreign carbon credits, merely noting that “Wopke Hoekstra has already signaled a pragmatic approach” to the...
While most legal experts argue that rejecting people who want to claim asylum violates EU law, Dobrindt argued there is a clear legal basis for the decision, and said he...
