February 28, 2023, unraveled in horrific fashion in Northern Greece when a passenger train, carrying 352 souls onboard, collided head-on with a freight train on the same track. The first…
The European Union Schengen vote on December 8, 2022, reflects its long-standing second-class treatment of its southeastern-most members: Bulgaria and Romania. These countries, both EU members, were up for addition…
On June 23, 2016, 52% of Brits voted in favor of leaving the European Union. Since this referendum, the United Kingdom has had four different Prime Ministers: David Cameron, Theresa…
On September 25, 2022, Italy selected Giorgia Meloni as their new Prime Minister. Meloni leads the nationalist, far-right party, Brothers of Italy, founded in 2012. Despite her attempts to present…
The European Union’s (EU) Eastern border is under incredible strain as thousands of migrants seek entrance into Poland from Belarus. Most migratory crises are a result of a series of…
Pictured: Vial of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on EU flag. Courtesy of Deutsche Welle. Upon the emergence of COVID-19 cases outside of China in January 2020, few could predict the degree…
When Ursula von der Leyen, the incoming president of the European Commission, first announced her list of proposed commissioners in September, it did not include a British commissioner. She and her commission were scheduled to take office on November 1st, and the UK was scheduled to officially leave the EU on October 31st, so it didn’t seem necessary to appoint a British commissioner who would never serve.
In July of this year, Ursula von der Leyen became the first woman nominated to the presidency of the European Commission. On November 1st, she and all her newly-confirmed commissioners were to officially take office and become the new European Commission.