Dave Keating

Podgorica wants Montenegrin, classified by linguists as a dialect of Serbo-Croatian, to become the EU’s 25th official language. It could open the floodgates for unnecessary translations.

My conversation with James Ker-Lindsay about what has and hasn’t happened since we last spoke a year ago.

In 2020, the EU member states agreed on a €750 billion post-Covid recovery plan known as NextGenerationEU.

The 27 member states of the European Union agreed in July 2020 on a €750 billion post-Covid recovery plan called NextGenerationEU.

For Dave Keating, the departure of Pedro Sánchez, the last European leader to firmly defend the centre-left, could lead to the collapse of the European Union's historic centrist grand coalition and pave the way, for the first time, for a governing majority that includes the far right. The Brussels-based writer and journalist warns that the Spanish prime minister's downfall could trigger a crisis in the EU capital unlike anything seen this century.

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A rebuttal to Thomas Fazi’s speech, “Europe: An Occupied Continent”.

It is rare for European countries to be experiencing simultaneous protest movements. And while the reasons for youth protests vary nationally, they are linked by shared anger, distrust and despair.

After surveying the aftermath of the riots in Lyon, I’m at the European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg. The atmosphere is tense and fearful.

Moscow and MAGA suffer setbacks in Belgrade and Brasilia as the student protest movement topples Russia-friendly strongman Aleksandar Vučić and Lula defies the odds to defeat the Bolsonaros.