🚨Interesting experiment in the #EuropeanParliament. ANSAeuropa learns that to avoid the "empty hemicycle" effect for the 2 topical debates next Tuesday and Wednesday, EP is considering not publishing the speakers list forcing MEPs to stay in while waiting for their turn.

✖️Elon Musk name will not appear in the title of next Tuesday's EP debate on "Foreign interference and distorted algorithms". Epp , Ecr , Patriots and Esn, the groups of the so-called #VenezuelaMajority, opposed the naming of the US tycoon, AnsaEuropa learns.

🚨 Morawiecki has just been elected as the new leader of the ECRparty, taking over from Giorgia Meloni as head of the European Conservative Reformists. Carlo Fidanza, Marion Marechal and George Simion will be the party's vice-presidents

Nato Secretary General @markrutte.bsky.social tells AFET Committee MEPS today that "2% of GDP for defence is nowhere near enough".

Von der Giorgia: the story of a friendship and a political alliance from their first meeting to the present day. A duo driven by common interests that will continue as long as their goals remain aligned.
👇Long Format today on @mm-ilfoglio-bot.bsky.social 👇

The Romanian authorities have also rejected the Georgian government's claims that they intervend in their defece

According to this Georgian government tweet, 🇮🇹 is among the countries that have "expressed their position in support of 🇬🇪". A very vague wording, nevertheless we checked if Italy opposed any measures and qualified sources confirmed to us that nothing of the sort happened.

🇺🇦💰🕊️Responding to Greek @ecrgroup.bsky.social MEP Emmanouil Fragkos' Parliamentary question, Commissioner Piotr Serafin today published one of the most up to date and detailed breakdowns of how much EU spent so far to support Ukraine's war against Russia: Total amount: 124 billion euros.

🚨🇷🇺✈️🇪🇺 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has landed here in Malta. It's his first visit to the EU since the war in Ukraine began. Tomorrow he will address the
#OSCE ministerial summit. His flight avoided the airspace of any other EU country.

🇲🇹Ciao Malta.
I am on the island until Friday for the #OsceMinisterial2024
It's a special summit, as Lavrov will be visiting an EU country for the first time since 2022. Blinken will also be on the island, the two might meet.
If anyone's around, let's chat...

At the congress of the Movimento 5 Stelle in Rome today, Giuseppe Conte instead of inviting Manon Aubry and Martin Schirdewan, the leaders of his European group The Left, invited the leader of the German conservative left Sahra Wagenknecht, whose party BSW antagonizes Die Linke.

Here is the coalition pact between @RenewEurope @EPPGroup @TheProgressives. The fate of the pro-EU coalition in Brussels hangs on these two pages.

"ArcelorMittal has agreed to transfer ownership of its operations in Kazakhstan to the government following several deadly accidents, including an underground coal mine fire at the weekend that killed at least 44 workers."
Perhaps Rome can learn a thing or two about Ilva from this?