Nicolas Schmit will be the third politician that the European Socialist Party (PES) family has sent as its lead candidate in the European elections. He was preceded by two politicians who had the talent to be a tribune of the people: Germany’s Martin Schulz was the Socialists’ top campaigner in 2014 and the Dutchman Frans […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rapporteur Elisabetta Gualmini (S&D), has called on member states to vote in favor of the trilogue compromise on platform work. If the member states reject the compromise, this would be “completely incomprehensible”, she told Table.Media. On the one hand, this is about helping almost 30 million employees in the EU to gain their rights and, […]
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 […]
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 […]