March 5, 2023 - l'Européenne de Bruxelles

‘Deeply wrong’: EPP conservatives pull out of spyware mission to Greece

March 5, 2023March 7, 2023 1044 views

The largest political group in the European Parliament, the right-wing conservative European People’s Party (EPP), announced on Monday morning it was pulling out of a parliament fact-finding mission on the erosion of the rule of law in Greece, citing last week’s tragic train accident as its reason. The EPP, of which Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ party New Democracy is a member, is claiming it is doing so out of respect for the victims of the train accident – which killed 57 people last week – yet it is the…

Nuclear alliance formed, Belgium isn’t even invited

March 5, 2023March 7, 2023 1045 views

Last week, France launched the formation of a “nuclear alliance” of 11 European countries. Belgium? Not invited, said the Belgian Minister of energy, Tinne Van der Straeten (Green). A version that is questioned by several members of the government. With nuclear energy, controversy is never far away in our country. But the prime minister has taken up the matter again. A certain chaos emerged around the two winters in which the supply risks are threatened. In the end, it was decided to leave both options open, namely the upgrading of…