The EU's increased defence spending priorities must not come at the expense of development aid, as this could risk isolating the continent geopolitically, the Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen warned in an interview.
Just a few days to go before the elections on 6 and 9 June, the centre-left electorate has not yet made up its mind, according to Renaissance MEP Pascal Canfin. Designated as the 'green joker' or the 'green deposit' of Macron, Canfin defends his own record. Interview.
In a push to counter an expected drop in seats in the new European Parliament, the Greens are banking on extending their demographic and geographical base, their lead candidate Terry Reintke told Euractiv.
In an exclusive interview with Euractiv, French top candidate of La France insoumise (LFI, The Left) for the 2024 EU elections Manon Aubry, strongly critised a divided left in the face of a far-right at the top of the polls.
The EU Prosecutor is doing a good job in investigating cases related to the rule of law as Greek citizens mistrust domestic justice and the conservative New Democracy government (EPP), Greece’s main opposition Syriza party (EU Left) leader Stefanos Kasselakis told Euractiv.com in an interview.
The Asylum and Migration Pact adopted by the European Parliament on Wednesday (10 April) will “weaken the right to asylum” and enshrine in law an ailing approach to migration policy, Eve Geddie, head of Amnesty International’s Brussels office, told Euractiv in an interview.
European liberals have approved the nomination of Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann as ALDE’s lead candidate for the June elections. Strack-Zimmermann spoke to Euractiv’s Christoph Schwaiger following the 20 March ‘Renew Europe Now’ election campaign launch.
Ukraine's future accession to the bloc will bring more benefits than costs, and EU member states should approve the next formal steps later this week, the country's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal told Euractiv. "We are waiting and wishing to have approval …
To understand the obstacles women face when participating in politics, national authorities need to generate more gender-disaggregated data, Policy and Campaign Officer for the European Women’s Lobby, Jéromine Andolfatto, told Euractiv.
No member from the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR) or far right Identity and Democracy will sit around the negotiating table to form a pro-EU majority in the next European Parliament, Giacomo Filibeck, secretary general of the Party of European Socialists (PES) told Euractiv in an interview.
The political balance of power that will emerge after the EU elections in June will be a “straightforward call” for the EU centre-right to keep key EU policy portfolios under its helm, Thanasis Bakolas, Secretary General of the European People’s Party, Europe’s largest political family, told Euractiv in an interview ahead of the party’s congress on 6-7 March in Bucharest.
The Western Balkans is ready to contribute to the fight against Russia amid European and Western “excuses” and “constraints” over aid, adding that EU member states need the region for its security, according to Prime Minister Edi Rama in an interview before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to the country.
Leaving the EU remains the far right’s ultimate goal, even if they stay quiet about it ahead of election time, former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier told Euractiv in an interview on Tuesday (20 February), warning that the far right has not learned the lessons of Brexit.
The far right is gaining momentum in Europe ahead of EU elections and is converging with the right, centre-right, and liberals on policies and politics ahead of EU elections, the co-president of The Left group at the European Parliament, Manon Aubry, told Euractiv in an interview
The European Commission will release a revamped version of its Have Your Say online citizen’s engagement portal this month, Commission Vice-President Dubravka Šuica told Euractiv.
The nature of the implementation of the European Commission's controversial directive to limit foreign interference will be up to leaders of member states, Commission Vice-President Dubravka Šuica explained in an interview with Euractiv.
In an interview with Euractiv France, Manon Aubry, lead candidate of the left-wing party "La France insoumise" ("France Unbowed", GUE/NGL) for the 2024 European elections, reflects on the current European mandate (2019-2024) and her wishes for the next one (2024-2029).
The right-wing camp in Europe always presents a united front regardless of internal differences, while the progressive forces are divided and do not know how to articulate and effectively communicate their messages, said Martin Schulz, former president of the European Parliament.
The EU should increase cooperation with third countries as a means to implement a more effective return policy at the continental level, the Swedish Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard told Euractiv.
"An ill wind is blowing against ecology. It is in these conditions that we are approaching the European elections", warns Marie Toussaint, MEP and head of the list of the French Greens (Europe Écologie - Les Verts, EELV) for the June 2024 elections, in an interview with Euractiv France.
The EU should focus on doing less but doing it better, leading conservatives concluded following a two-day summit of young delegates in Brussels this week, as they seek to counter the push towards more EU integration.
The UK faces a “real risk of being sidelined” on global affairs as a result of Brexit, Peter Ricketts, who chairs the House of Lords European Affairs Committee, told EURACTIV in an interview, all the while praising a thaw in the EU-UK relationship.
The first COVID-19 lockdown, combined with a rise in anti-immigration rhetoric has resulted in systemic pushbacks by the Hellenic Coast Guard, sea rescue expert Giannis Skenderoglou told EURACTIV in an interview.
Ahead of the EU elections next year, German far-right party AfD is firmly on an EU-sceptic path, with criticism of the European Union being among the only things the whole party can rally behind, researcher Uwe Jun told EURACTIV in an interview.
