These are Putin’s plans for the Baltic states: The president dreams of a new Greater Russia – and has his Kremlin administration writing papers on how Moscow can once again exert more influence on its neighbors. He is not even stopping at members of the EU and NATO. MoreFascism relativized in Italy, supple in the […]
For the Commission, it is clear that the Stability and Growth Pact cannot remain as it was. But after loud demands from the traffic light coalition that it needed fixed benchmark values, Brussels wants to respond to Berlin’s criticism. Table.Media is familiar with the proposal, which will be presented by the Commission today. The key […]
The EU-Mercosur free trade agreement is finally supposed to move forward after many years of stalemate. But a meeting of negotiators from both sides in Buenos Aires this Wednesday and Thursday has now been postponed until May. The reason: The Mercosur side, in particular, needed more time to prepare for the additional declaration on sustainability […]
A relationship in a permanent low: Since the start of the Russian war of aggression, Chancellor Scholz has not visited the Polish president even once. But the relationship between Warsaw and Berlin has long been considered difficult – and no one is really doing anything about it. More “Hit rate 100 percent”: When the Ukraine […]
The EU Commission wants to ensure that by 2030 only half as many pesticides are used as before. But finding a compromise could hardly be more difficult: The ideas in the European Parliament range from a significant tightening to complete rejection. There are almost 3,000 amendments. And even the EPP Group still has to find […]
There is rare unity across the political camps: Greens, conservatives, even liberals criticize Emmanuel Macron’s statements on the Taiwan issue. But the dispute also has advantages, analyze Amelie Richter and Felix Lee. For in the EU, Macron has thus fueled the urgently needed debate on the future course of China and Taiwan policy.In recent years, […]
One sees China as a possible mediator in the Ukraine war, while the other wants to gain more distance from Beijing: Talks will not be easy when French President Emmanuel Macron and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen travel to China. But a common position would be all the more important, analyzes Amelie Richter. […]
Should hydrogen from nuclear power be counted towards the renewables targets? That’s exactly what France and some other countries demanded. But yesterday, the energy ministers rejected this idea and removed the project from the general orientation of the gas market directive. In return, the Commission signaled a concession on another level regarding nuclear power. Read […]
One of the major contentious issues should actually disappear from the agenda today: The Council of Ministers will, in all likelihood, vote in favor of phasing out internal combustion engines by 2035 – including the FDP compromise on e-fuels. But there is skepticism among the industry and suppliers – mostly about the low binding nature […]
The discussions about phasing out the internal combustion engine are almost soap opera-like at the moment. Who has promised what to whom? Or did they? Yesterday, the EU heads of state and government were also occupied with this issue. Yet it was not on the agenda of the EU summit in Brussels. It was actually […]