Talks led by Von der Leyen and the Dutch and Italian Prime Ministers Mark Rutte and Giorgia Meloni (all breaching the EU's rules on negotiations with heads of states on behalf of the bloc) produced a €785 million (US$842m) agreement in July for budget support and investment between the EU and President Kaïs Saïed (AC Vol 64 No 14 Migration cash dominates vote for top EU jobs)...
Neither Borrell nor national governments – with the exception of Italian and Dutch premiers Giorgia Meloni and Mark Rutte – were consulted we hear...
Vol 64 No 19 |
- LIBYA
- MIGRATION
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen Italian premier Giorgia Meloni and the Netherlands' outgoing premier Mark Rutte brokered a quid pro quo with Tunisia's President Kaïs Saïed in June...
Apart from Saïed the main beneficiary is Italy's Meloni who accompanied Von der Leyen and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on the visit to Tunis...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen – flanked by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his counterpart Giorgia Meloni of Italy – swept up the steps of the Palace of Carthage on 11 June with €150 million in immediate budget support to President Kaïs Saïed – and a promise of a further €900m...
DISPATCHES
In February the Dutch parliament including the liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy and Christian Democrat Action – the two main parties in Mark Rutte's coalition government voted to open talks with a view to setting up refugee centres outside the EU...
READ FOR FREE
A host of unlikely guests seems to be finding a reason to be in Accra from Queen Margrethe of Denmark (who made her first trip to West Africa in November) to Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni of Italy and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (en route from the Africa-EU Summit in Abidjan in neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire) to Presidents Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Germany's Frank Walter Steinmeyer in December...
