Trump VS Mexico US President Donald Trump announced the introduction of 5% duties on all products from Mexico on Sunday, threatening to increase the number if the problem of illegal immigrantion continues. Mexican Deputy Foreign Minister Jesus Sead promised a “vigorous” response to the new duties on Thursday. On March 29, Trump threatened to close the border with Mexico altogether, ...
European Parliament elections The elections for the European parliament took place this weekend. According to the results, the European People’s Party won 179 seats, and the EP’s second largest faction, the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, won 150. The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe came in third with 107 mandates, followed by the “Greens” with 70 and ...
In total, citizens of 28 countries, including the United Kingdom who has not yet officially left the EU, will take part in the 2019 European elections. In total, 426 million voters are eligible to participate in the elections. https://twitter.com/EP_President/status/1131503956277039104 The ghost of Brexit The Brexit issue is one factor seriously complicating the EU elections. The UK has still not left ...
The role of the European Parliament The European Parliament, jointly with the EU Council, performs the functions of legislative power, participates in the adoption of the EU budget, exercises political control over the activities of other EU institutions, ratifies agreements on the admission of new members to the union, and has a deliberative right regarding any other issues. In addition, ...
The European elections will be held on May 26, 2019. They represent an important challenge for the social democrats and liberals of Europe. This is largely due to the rise of patriotic and Eurosceptic parties that reject Brussel’s policies and ideology. The traditional parties that have dominated the political spectrum in the European Union for some time may very well ...