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When Margaritis Schinas says that “no one can blackmail the European Union”, Morocco and other neighbourhood states might well think that the EU’s Migration Commissioner is bluffing. The decision by Rabat to allow thousands of migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta last week is a reminder of how quickly migration can be weaponised and used as a bargaining chip. Moroccan officials have hinted that its border manoeuvres were a response to Spain providing hospital treatment for Brahim Ghali, the leader of the Western Sahara independence movement, the Polisario Front, who was suffering ...

The minds of EU decision-makers have been focused on Belarus' forced landing on Sunday of a European airliner travelling between two member states. Leaders have vowed that Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko will be made to pay a high price for what many are calling state piracy.

The EU's latest bad boy, Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša, finally addressed the press corps in Brussels on Wednesday, if only for a dozen minutes and via zoom, at a joint press conference with European Parliament President David Sassoli.

For such a supposedly all–powerful and overbearing institution, the European Commission isn’t half timid sometimes, even when it comes to defending what are supposed to be its own fundamental values. As seasoned Brussels–watchers are only too aware, Poland and Hungary have been subject to Article 7 procedures for alleged breaches of Rule of Law since 2017 and 2018 respectively – primarily because of laws reforming the judiciary in Poland and, in Hungary’s case, primarily over media and civil society freedom. And, as we well know, those processes have gone nowhere as the EU instituti...