Climate neutrality: Timmermans (EU Commission), “greenhouse gas emissions down to zero by 2050”. Greta Thunberg in Brussels

Climate neutrality: EU Commission proposes a European “law” and a European “pact”. Von der Leyen, “the way to a sustainable future”

Covid-19 and refugees from Turkey. Graglia: “The European Union is powerless”

Health issues, foreign policy, migration, education and research, “are clearly of supranational nature in terms of scale and resources to…

Attacks against NGOs in Lesvos: Alverti (Caritas Greece) “the atmosphere is extremely tense.” Activities temporarily suspended

“We are seriously worried: we are realizing that NGOs are not welcome here. The situation is extremely tense and frustrating.…

Migrants at Turkey’s border with Greece: Von der Leyen, “aid to Greece, but Ankara is not an enemy”. EU leadership, strategy for unaccompanied minors

Migrants at Turkey’s border with Greece. Mitsotakis (Greek PM), “Turkey first official human trafficker”. Call for EU support

Fake news and threats to democracy: the European Parliament takes remedial action

While the EU is caught in the grips of a migration emergency from Turkey and the coronavirus Covid-19, the European…

Migrants at the Greece-Turkey border: EU leaders in the Hellenic country and in Ankara. Checking the situation “on site” and holding political talks

Germany: Mgr. Georg Bätzing, Bishop of Limburg, new president of German Bishops’ Conference

Migrants on the Greece-Turkey border: blocked, pushed back, used by Erdogan as pawns to exert diplomatic pressure on the EU

The Calvary of migrants headed towards the Greek border from Turkey, the gateway to Europe. Encouraged to stream into the…

COVID-19 Coronavirus: European Commission, task force in place to coordinate responses