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In today’s news from The Capitals:
BERLIN
While leaders courted the cameras on stage, European diplomats discreetly mingled with the crowds that gathered in the Berlin area on successive weekends to rubber-stamp lead candidates and manifestos. Read more.
WESTERN EUROPE
PARIS
France passes ambiguous ‘food sovereignty’ law. The agricultural orientation law approved today in the French parliament establishes the principle of “non-regression of the country’s food sovereignty” – but opponents fear environmental protection may be threatened. Read more.
UK & IRELAND
DUBLIN
Irish are living longer, better with healthcare workforce expansion, says new report. Ireland’s annual publication of national health metrics has highlighted an impressive average life expectancy of 82.6 years, the fifth highest in the European Union. It also outperformed the EU on health workforce expansion. Read more.
NORDICS & BALTICS
TALLINN
Riina Sikkut: EU Pharma Package deal ‘possible’ under Polish presidency. The EU’s pharmaceutical package is a key piece of legislation for smaller countries like Estonia, which experience delays in access to medicines, said Estonian Health Minister Riina Sikkut, adding that an agreement between member states was “possible” under the Polish EU presidency. Read more.
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STOCKHOLM
Sweden to arm police with digital tools in anti-gang crackdown. The Swedish government has unveiled a new initiative to combat organised crime, launching what it calls a “digital police offensive” aimed at preventing gang recruitment, especially of children, through online platforms. Read more.
EUROPE’S SOUTH
MADRID
Spain’s centre-right pressures Sánchez to reveal Ukraine strategy in parliament. The leader of the Spanish People’s Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, urged on Thursday the country’s Prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, to explain before parliament what steps Madrid intends to take together with its EU and NATO allies in the upcoming negotiations for Ukraine. Read more.
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LISBON
Portugal’s PM to face parliament over family real estate company. Portugal’s prime minister, Luís Montenegro, has declared that he is “very calm” about the situation of his family’s real estate company and once again referred explanations to the debate on the motion of censure in parliament. Read more.
EASTERN EUROPE
WARSAW
Polish anti-corruption chief resigns amid Pegasus scandal. Polish PM Donald Tusk has accepted the resignation of Agnieszka Kwiatkowska-Gurdak, head of the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA), as the investigation into the Pegasus surveillance case continues. Read more.
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PRAGUE
Czech institutions demand equal penalties for communist and Nazi propaganda. Three Czech institutions have called on lawmakers to amend the criminal code so that promoting communism is penalised in the same way as promoting Nazism. Read more.
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BRATISLAVA
NATO chief meets Slovak leaders on Bratislava Visit. NATO chief Mark Rutte visited Slovakia on Thursday, meeting President Peter Pellegrini and later Defence Minister Robert Kaliňák (Smer-SD/NI). Read more.
NEWS FROM THE BALKANS
SOFIA
Bulgarian government worries peacekeeper deployment could spark public panic. Government representatives in Sofia said they were concerned about the possibility of instilling panic in society over the pending US question about the readiness of EU countries to send peacekeepers to Ukraine. Read more.
AGENDA:
EU: Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hosts Prime Minister of Romania Marcel Ciolacu;
Mediterranean Commissioner Dubravka Šuica in Beirut, Lebanon: Holds meetings with President of the Republic Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, Foreign Affairs Minister Youssef Raggi, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri;
Equality Commissioon Hadja Lahbib and Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and Sport Commissioner Glenn Micallef meet with EU Agency for Fundamental Rights Director Sirpa Rautio;
Fisheries and Oceans Commissioner Costas Kadis hosts high level roundtable on “Helping Design the European Ocean Pact”.
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[Edited by Vas Panagiotopoulos, Daniel Eck, Sofia Mandilara]
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Publish date : 2025-02-20 22:19:00
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