Speaking via video link to the Italian parliament on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described the need for ‘reconstruction of Ukraine after this war. Together with you, together with Italy. Together with Europe. Together – in the European Union.’ Ukraine wants the European Union – and if statements by EU leaders are anything to go […]
The European right remains divided. A meeting in Warsaw this weekend between the leaders of some of the EU’s largest conservative parties failed to produce a much-anticipated new grouping in the European Parliament, meaning eurosceptic voices in Brussels will continue to be drowned out by those bent on closer EU integration. With ideological rifts opening […]
The bitter row between Hungary and the EU shows no sign of stopping. The latest chapter in the conflict has seen Viktor Orbán pull his Fidesz party out of the European People’s Party (EPP), a centre-right European Parliament group. The move followed the approval of a rule change which would have allowed the EPP to […]
Brexit has broken the EU’s equilibrium. Britain was seen as a vital counterweight to the calls for greater European integration by socially conservative countries like Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. With that individualist voice gone, the so-called ‘Visegrád Four’ have recognised the need to assert themselves – western Europe should be worried. As […]
