As European trade ministers meet, the main concern will be the chaos that a possible second Donald Trump victory could cause to the global trade system
Media mentions – Cohesion & Governance
Orban is using Hungary’s presidency as a platform to make his own national agenda more visible at international level
Trump is not interested in Bulgarian democracy and will in no way help to restore institutions or to take back the captured state
Vesela Tcherneva comments on one year since the Hamas terrorist carnage in Israel, the warning from the European Commission to Sofia, the danger of an orbanocracy in Bulgaria, whether a shock such as the reinstatement of visas is necessary for Bulgarians to see the threat to democracy and its values
The impression is that for the EU there is no alternative to Saied and I expect the so-called business as usual between Brussels and Tunis to continue
There is a gap in the next few weeks in which, if the decision on the admission of Bulgaria and Romania in Schengen on land is voted, this issue will be closed once and for all
Berlin is more concerned with the perception of the policy, rather than its successful implementation. It creates the impression of separation from unreliable neighbours
Karolina Wigura on the German government’s decision to reimpose checks at its borders
As the EU gradually ceases to deliver the promise of a better future, this decision by Olaf Scholz’s government is a bitter reminder of our past, and our past illusions
Karolina Wigura on the closing of German borders and the effects for Poland
She’s on the very pro-Russian end of the spectrum, a Left-wing populist who grew up in East Germany and thinks Marxism and communism is superior to capitalist democracy,