The fight over the Mobility Package is a very long one and it is too early to tell whether it has been won or lost. When it is all said and done, it will most likely be neither of those things because we are talking about a compromise. What we need to do is get as good law provisions as possible. It is clear that the industry is going to undergo reforms. So we can safely say that this is among the bad periods we have had in this fight, but it is not the last, the MEP said in an interview to Monitor.

The main role of the European Data Protection Supervisor, apart from the supervision of European institutions, is to take part in the legislative processes in the EU in order to help the institutions in drafting legal acts. We try to be as open as possible to any kind of consultations and contacts. We are taking part in consultations, we are organising our own events, and we are putting special emphasis on the cooperation with civil society, the European Data Protection Supervisor says in an interview to Europost.

Society has often dismissed art and culture, considering them children of a lesser god in the vast scale of the world’s economy. So, we need to stimulate the arts and prove that notion wrong, says former Venice Biennale curator Francesco Bonami, while answering questions by the readers of ArtNews.

Migration is a complex, long-standing and absolutely ordinary phenomenon, which can entail challenges at times, but also plenty of opportunities. And, as such, it should be addressed and dealt with in a comprehensive way. When one considers migration as a problem, then the whole discourse is in a way misled. I would say that the pandemic has exacerbated an already existing attitude that, very broadly, the EU has kept over the years, Italian political researcher Federico Alagna says in an interview to Europost.

I believe the EU must start to view itself more as a political force with geostrategic instead of technocratic priorities, keeping in mind that territory, size of market, building a sense of civilisational belonging are all pressingly urgent milestones if Europe as a continent seeks to remain a global power, says Katerina Kolozova, professor of political philosophy, in an interview to EUROPOST.

The European integration of North Macedonia depends on its ability to overcome the inherited hatred that has been dividing us and to muster up the courage to break the cycle of perpetuating lies with every young generation, says Andrey Kovatchev, MEP from EPP/GERB, in an interview to Monitor.

We have one of the most advanced public infrastructure in the world, but nobody was prepared for a public health crisis of these proportions. We have totally neglected to invest in the medical sector in the same systematic way so that we would be up to taking on a pandemic, says Luca Jahier, the EESC President, in an interview to Europost.

There is a panel of people in each country. Then the figures are gathered in Paris and made into the index. Not everyone who is involved in the media production is supposed to be involved, says Reporters Without Borders President Pierre Haski in a conversation with Telegraph Media.

It is true that the steps taken at the very outset of this new situation were perhaps not as decisive as many may have hoped, but Europe has since proven that it has enough internal strength to mount an adequate response to a sudden crisis, MEP Emil Radev says in an interview to Monitor.

Most probably, until the world develops a vaccine or a reliable cure which will help to overcome this epidemic, we will have to learn to live with it, says Maj. Gen. Ventsislav Mutafchiyski, head of the National Operative Staff, in an interview to Telegraph