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Poland halts asylum claims at Belarus border, urges Europe to follow

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In March 2025, Poland stopped registering asylum applications from...

Europe takes action: Subsidies, taxes, and policy pauses mitigate high fuel prices

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Conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine are prompting...

Meloni’s government imposes restrictions on non-Italian speakers and veils in schools

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On Thursday, the Italian government promulgated a decree capping...

“We must restore trust in democratic institutions,” says President of the French Economic, Social and Environmental Council

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During the September plenary session, the European Economic and...

NATO leaders call on Russia to stop “senseless war”

EASTERN PARTNERSHIP Theodoros Benakis - February 25, 2022

On February 25, NATO leaders agreed to their collective response to Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine. NATO’s close partners Finland, Sweden, and...

Sakharov Prize 2021: Parliament honours Alexei Navalny

EASTERN PARTNERSHIP Theodoros Benakis - December 15, 2021

Alexei Navalny’s daughter, Daria Navalnaya, received European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize on behalf of her imprisoned father at a ceremony on 15 December. Currently serving a...

MEPs outraged by harsh sentencing of Belarusian opposition figures

EASTERN PARTNERSHIP Theodoros Benakis - December 15, 2021

Leading MEPs condemn the sentencing of Syarhei Tsikhanouski, Mikalai Statkevich and other leading opposition figures to long prison terms in Belarus. “We are outraged by...

Poland-Belarus border: MEPs alarmed by humanitarian and political crisis

EASTERN PARTNERSHIP Theodoros Benakis - November 10, 2021

The EU must stand united in its response to the Belarusian regime’s inhuman instrumentalisation of migrants, MEPs said in a debate on Wednesday. In a...