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ČT24 | European Parliament Elected Committee Leadership, Including a Czech Chair

July 23, 2024

Veronika Vrecionová was elected as the Chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Luděk Niedermayer as the Vice-Chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Does this signify a strengthening or weakening of the Czech position? In which committees will the Czech MEPs be active? How significant is the "cordon sanitaire" of the Patriots for Europe political group? And isn't this isolation of the Patriots for Europe a limitation of democracy? Viktor Daněk, Deputy Director of EUROPEUM Institute, discusses this topic in an interview for ČT24.

STVR | Constituent meeting of the European Parliament

July 17, 2024

Members of the European Parliament continue to assign themselves to various committees, familiarize with the agendas assigned to them, and have already started working. At the constituent meeting, the first discussion was on a new legislative proposal concerning Ukraine, during which MEPs expressed continued support for the country. Viktor Daněk, Deputy Director of the EUROPEUM Institute, commented for Slovakian STVR.

TASR | Slovakia will have only one female MEP in the European People's Party

July 15, 2024

After the June European elections, Slovakia will have its weakest representation in the largest political group of the European Parliament - the European People's Party - since joining the EU in 2004. The only MEP in the EPP faction will be Miriam Lexmann from the Christian Democratic Movement. For the Slovak News Agency commented Žiga Faktor, head of the Brussels office and deputy director of EUROPEUM Institute.

ČT24 | Committee allocation in the European Parliament

July 09, 2024

EP groups reach a preliminary agreement on the division of committees in the new European Parliament. The strongest European People's Party Group would like to claim 7 of them, for example for foreign affairs, industry or agriculture. Listen to the comments of Viktor Daňek, Deputy Director of EUROPEUM Institute.

iDnes: Even nuclear energy and gas? Europe faces a key clash over what counts as green

June 22, 2022

Our Senior Research Fellow Kateřina Davidová commented for iDnes.cz on the EU taxonomy proposal that was rejected last week by two key committees of the European Parliament. They are concerned that nuclear energy and natural gas should be among the sustainable resources.

REPORT: Perceptions of EU in Central Europe amid COVID-related crisis

March 31, 2021

On 23 March, EUROPEUM's Brussels office organised the webinar Perceptions of the EU in Central Europe amid COVID-related crisis as a part of the Think Visegrad platform, which brings together 8 think-tanks from Central Europe.

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INVITATION: After the Brussels NATO Summit: Transatlantic Outlooks on Defense

July 02, 2018

We would like to cordially invite you to the debate "After the Brussels NATO Summit: Transatlantic Outlooks on Defense" which will take place on July 16, 2018 from 17:30 to 19:00 at the American Center in Prague.