Elena Sánchez Nicolás is EUobserver’s editor-in-chief. She joined EUobserver in 2019.EmailRSS Feed
THIS WEEK: Final push for US trade deal and migration returns as EU leaders travel to MexicoThis week will see high-stakes negotiations over a trade deal with the US and new deportation rules, before the first EU-Mexico summit in 11 years. Meanwhile, MEPs meet in Strasbourg, where the EU Commission will present a new fertiliser strategy, while Latvia faces political instability following the government’s collapse.
[Interview] Palestine’s UN envoy pushes EU to show ‘tough love’ to Israel: ‘Business as usual is not working’Palestinian UN envoy Mansour said Europe must abandon “business as usual” with Israel, urging real pressure to defend the two-state solution, in an interview with EUobserver.
[Interview] MEP Daniel Freund warns Slovakia anti-corruption purge can cost millions: ‘If EU funds aren’t safe, stop them’A veteran watchdog of the rule of law in Hungary, German Green MEP Daniel Freund warns that Slovakia is now going down a similar path. He said the EU Commission must trigger the conditionality mechanism immediately to protect EU taxpayer money from being funnelled into private interests, to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, where it took over a decade to penalise Hungary.
