Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders, known for his anti-EU rhetoric, has won a landslide victory in the 2023 Dutch general election. Albanian Finance Minister Ervin Mete said the country will benefit with one billion euros from EU Growth Plan for the Western Balkans. The European Parliament has rejected the Commission’s proposal to reduce the use of chemical pesticides.
While the European Union as well as several member states aim to overhaul their laws on migration, the European Commission has proposed a new skills and talent mobility package in November. It is aiming to combat its workforce’s ageing demographic and is supposed to attract skilled workers from within and outside the bloc. It shall also help curb illegal migration and create legal entry routes into the union.
One week ahead of 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), European Commissioner for Climate Action Wopke Hoekstra spoke to the European Newsroom on the sidelines of the European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg, France.
The new European Commissioner for Climate Action, Wopke Hoekstra, is gearing up for a tough climate summit at the end of this month in Dubai. The attending countries are nowhere near agreement, and on top of that Hoekstra knows the world is burning too. The European Newsroom talked to him ahead of the COP28.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called on Turkey to step up its efforts to take back rejected asylum seekers. European Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen has announced that she will stand in the Finnish presidential election. The European Commission has asked its services to suspend all their advertising campaigns on X.