As Věra Jourová, the Commission’s vice-president for values and transparency, edges towards the end of her Commission mandate, she reflects on some of her successes and ongoing challenges, including a more resilient media and an ethics body “with teeth”.

Special episode with excerpts from our Euranet Plus Summit, by Joanna Neville

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In just a matter of days at the end of last week, more hopeful migrants disembarked on the small Italian island of Lampedusa than there are people actually living there.

An episode by Joanna Neville, brought to you by Euranet Plus.

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With less than 300 days to go until the European elections, we take a look at some of the reactions to Wednesday morning’s much-publicised State of the Union address, given at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

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Once again, the European summer has been marked by meteorological disasters, with many member states grappling with floods or wildfires – and even, in at least one case, with both in quick succession.

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With thousands of migrants crossing the EU-Belarus border in recent months, Poland and the Baltic States have warned that they will entirely seal their borders with Belarus if this so-called “hybrid threat” escalates.

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As the Summit between the EU and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States gets stuck on Ukraine, Ukraine’s cereals get stuck in Ukraine…

The CELAC summit, bringing together EU member states and the countries of the Latin America and Caribbean region, took place on Monday and Tuesday (17/18 July 2023).

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The NATO summit in Vilnius and the EU’s controversial nature restoration law make headlines across the bloc this week.

The NATO summit reaffirmed that Ukraine will become a member of NATO and agreed to remove the requirement for a ‘membership action plan’. And the Green Deal’s nature restoration law proved particularly controversial at the Parliament's plenary in Strasbourg.

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On Saturday 1 July, the baton of the Council Presidency passed from Sweden to Spain. So what do the next six months look like in terms of policy and focus?

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In the context of the war in Ukraine and some apparent shifts in the bloc’s foreign and defence policies, Euranet Plus invited Josep Borrell, the Commission vice-president and the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, into the studio.

In the multilingual interview, host Beatriz Ríos took questions from journalists in our pan-European network: from BNR in Bulgaria, 100.7 in Luxembourg, Polskie Radio in Poland, Ziniu Radijas in Lithuania and euradio in France.

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Pride Month 2023 has seen an improvement in the rights of some of the EU’s LGBTQI+ citizens since last year, but prejudice and hostilities persist.

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