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Alina Leimbach Published: January 16th, 2024

Platform work: Radtke rejects new text

The European Parliament criticized the Belgian Council Presidency’s new negotiating text on the Platform Work Directive while EPP shadow rapporteur Dennis Radtke calls the proposal “unacceptable.” To Table.Media, Radtke justified this with the new exceptions to the reclassification of the self-employed as employees, which France in particular is pushing for.“France is pushing for an exception […]

Alina Leimbach Published: January 11th, 2024

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is currently on a trip to the Baltic states. In Lithuania yesterday, during his first visit abroad this year, he called for more weapons aid to defend against the bombings. “Air defense systems are at the top of the list of things we lack“, he said in Vilnius on Wednesday after a […]

Alina Leimbach Published: December 21st, 2023

Macron defends controversial immigration law

French President Emmanuel Macron has defended the immigration law passed by parliament against criticism, including from within his own ranks. Macron said on France 5 television on Wednesday evening that the law was clearly aimed at preventing migrants from immigrating to France irregularly and thus also preventing the social system from being overburdened. At the […]

Alina Leimbach Published: December 20th, 2023

Platform work: vote in Coreper postponed

A vote in Coreper on the trilogue agreement on platform work was planned for this Wednesday evening. However, the vote in the Committee of Permanent Representatives of the Member States (Coreper) is now likely to be postponed until Friday, December 22. This is mainly due to technical details, according to informed sources. Added to this […]

Alina Leimbach Published: December 13th, 2023

Platform work: Trilogue agreement at the sixth attempt

At 7.40 a.m. on Wednesday morning, it was clear: after almost twelve hours of talks, the negotiators in the trilogue on the Platform Work Directive were able to agree on a common line to combat bogus self-employment on the major digital platforms. It would be the world’s first such regulation for these platforms. Among other […]