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Two-thirds of votes cast by MEPs later this week will be required to force the President and the Commissioners to resign, ...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has called for diplomatic negotiations as the only viable solution to the ongoing Middle East crisis. Addressing escalating tensions, she urged Iran ...
Italy and the European Union have announced €1.2 billion in investment for Africa as part of an ambitious development plan. Italy's Giorgia Meloni also promoted her government's "Mattei Plan ...
Good afternoon. Thank you, Prime Minister Meloni, dear Giorgia, for having brought us together once again, in the beautiful setting of the Eternal City. A year and a half has passed since the launch ...
Von der Leyen's hawkish intervention at the G7 summit has dented hopes of a diplomatic reset between the EU and China. Summer has arrived in Brussels with a new trend: the doves are out, the hawks ...
After weeks of telegraphing signs towards a diplomatic rapprochement with China, or at least a thaw, Ursula von der Leyen made an abrupt volte face at the G7 summit with a broadside attack against ...
It is bold of von der Leyen to raise the WTO, and it will be intriguing to see how she is greeted at the EU-China leaders’ summit Yet this tirade came not from an acolyte of Donald Trump, but from ...
Today in Rome the meeting between Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the President of the European Commission Von der Leyen, attention focused on the serious international crisis, on the sidelines ...
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has insisted that bypassing Members of European Parliament (MEPs) to push through a £128 billion defence loan was "fully justified".
This week, President Ursula von der Leyen was in Kananaskis, in Canada, where she participated in this year's G7 Summit. Against the background of Russia's war against Ukraine, increasing instability ...
China has hit back at the intervention of Ursula von der Leyen at the G7 summit, during which she excoriated Beijing for perpetuating what she called a "pattern of dominance, dependency and blackmail" ...