MEP Bernd Lange: ‘Now time for in-depth scrutiny – approval by the EP will not be a foregone conclusion’
The European elections took place on 9 June 2024. The term of office of the EU Commission also ends at the end of the legislative period of the Parliament. After the election of the European Parliament, a new Commission has to be formed. After each EU Member State has proposed a candidate, the European Parliament examines the candidates through hearings in the relevant committees. Then, initially, the committees vote on the candidates and either accept or reject them. In the event of rejection, the Member State concerned must propose a new candidate. Finally, the European Parliament as a whole must approve the list of proposed candidates. This week, on 17 September 2024, the already elected President of the EU [...]
Brussels gets a Palace of the Silk Roads
By Jürgen Klute and Zhou Yi The Chinese Pavilion in the Royal Palace Gardens in the Laeken district of the Belgium und European capital Brussels is awakening from a deep slumber For over ten years, the Chinese Pavilion in the Royal Palace Gardens in Laeken has been lying empty [...]
“Save a life, you save humanity”
Concert at the European commission: Omar Harfouch plays his new composition for world peace. By Manel Msalmi On Tuesday evening December 12th 2023 at the European Commission in Brussels, Omar Harfouch, who has been in the news in recent weeks following his acquisition of Entrevue magazine, has shown that [...]
After a long Corona break, there was another climate march in Brussels
By Jürgen Klute After a long break due to Corona, there was another climate march in Brussels on Sunday, 23 October 2022. The starting point was the North Station. There, the activists met from 1 pm onwards. The approximately 30,000 demonstrators marched in good weather first on the inner [...]
Democracy under threat and human Rights violations in Bangladesh
By Manel Msalmi, Brussels On July 19th 2022 an international conference entitled «Democracy under threat and human rights violations in Bangladesh« was organized by the EPP group and MEP host Fulvio Martusciello with the help of the EU advisor Valerio Balzamo and the international affairs advisor Manel Msalmi who [...]
A big gathering of civil society organisations in Europe to boycott Beijing 2022
By Manel Msalmi On January 3rd and 4th 2022, a series of demonstrations took place in Europe mainly in Antwerp, Brussels, and Geneva but also in Hong Kong to ask for a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and to send a message to the Chinese [...]
Bangladesh genocide commomeration in Brussels
By Manel Msalmi, Brussels A demonstration place today in front of the European institutions with civil society and human rights organizations in Europe as well as the Bengali organizations who came to pay tribute to the victims on this 50th anniversary and ask for EU and UN recognition. It [...]