Новости за 27.02.2024

Amazon lobbyists will officially be banned from the European Parliament until further notice after an internal body decided to withdraw their badges

Organisations from outside the EU will be banned from sponsoring political adverts in the three months ahead of June's European elections under a new law approved by EU lawmakers on Tuesday (27 February).

Hailed with loud applause by the 329 MEPs that approved the text, the final compromise approved on Tuesday is actually much weaker than the original EU Commission proposal first tabled in 2022.

If we pretend that states are democratic because they are in the EU's geopolitical tent, we betray democracy. Conversely, functioning democracies can make geopolitical choices that the EU does not like.