People do not know what legal value the EP report has. In Poland, when the parliament passes something, it becomes law, but this is not the case in the Europarliament.
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The changes to the EU, Kaczyński is threatening us with, are not real
The predominant voice in Berlin was that the reform of the EU is necessary and that the members need to start some changes, regarding the way decisions are taken, and the composition of the Commission
Despite a wide consensus on the necessity to enlarge the EU, the majority of State Members is not yet in an advanced reflecting phase on how to concretely achieve it
To say that there is an attempt today to impose anything on anyone is pure disinformation. There is no such attempt there is only a project that would require the consent of all states.
Already with Tunisia, now with Israel and Palestine, von der Leyen pursued personal, and ideological, politics without a mandate
It will take years for Israelis to recover from this attack, even from a psychological perspective: the reality of secret services’ failure is too difficult to digest
The EU always had to balance two different positions on the issue: one centered on security and economics, the other on values and peace. Now we’ve clearly shifted towards the first one
Giving Israel a blank check, which is what Europeans might do now, can have dangerous and counterproductive outcomes
It is time to decide not only how far the Union should go, but what the EU should do
Andrés Ortega analyses the EU’s enlargement process