More speed in climate protection, more help for environmentally conscious consumers, and more ambition in the ecological restructuring of the economy: These are the demands of 200 randomly selected citizens who discussed climate change and environmental policy in Warsaw over the weekend at the invitation of the EU.The “random citizens” who met as part of […]
The EU Commission has awarded a feasibility study for a central European asset register. The contract, worth up to €400,000, has been awarded to three companies, including the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels. This is according to a notice published in the EU’s Official Journal on December 13th. The invitation to tender […]
The European Union is venturing into new territory in terms of foreign and economic policy. At the European Council in Brussels on Thursday, the heads of state and government – including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for the first time – threatened Russia with economic and financial sanctions even before the country launched the feared military […]
Thursday was Germany Day in Brussels. Two freshly minted ministers of the new traffic light government – Annalena Baerbock and Nancy Faeser – paid their inaugural visit to the EU institutions. Foreign Minister Baerbock was in the spotlight. After all, she is the first woman to hold this office, and after all, for some time, […]
Next Wednesday will be a rainy day for the European People’s Party. If the SPD politician Olaf Scholz is elected Germany’s next chancellor as expected, it won’t just be Angela Merkel (CDU) who loses power after sixteen years. The EPP will also lose ground – with far-reaching consequences for all of Europe.For years the Christian-conservative […]
The European Court of Auditors President Klaus-Heiner Lehne has rejected accusations of mismanagement but at the same time announced reforms. There will be changes to the Court’s rules on representation expenses and the driving service, Lehne announced at a hearing in the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday.The French daily “Libération” had reported about a […]
The head of the European Court of Auditors, the German CDU politician Klaus-Heiner Lehne, must answer to the European Parliament on accusations of mismanagement. Lehne is expected in Brussels on Tuesday afternoon for a hearing in the Budgetary Control Committee. Lehne himself had requested the hearing, his spokesman said. The French daily newspaper “Libération” had […]
The COFEU is back. After its launch on Europe Day in May, the “Conference on the Future of Europe“, the EU’s largest democracy experiment to date, had been suspiciously quiet. But now the Future Conference is suddenly on everyone’s lips. The coalition agreement of the traffic light government in Berlin and the leader of the […]
The Brussels authority proposes that in the future every political advertisement must be clearly labeled as such. In addition, it should contain information about who pays how much for it. Techniques for targeting and amplifying political advertising are to be made public. In addition, the Commission wants to prohibit the use of sensitive personal data […]
In European policy, the traffic light coalition formulates new goals: The European Union should act with “strategic sovereignty” and be further developed into a “federal European state“. A “Social Europe”, which Chancellor Angela Merkel avoided as much as possible, is also high on the agenda of the new government.The traffic light coalition also wants to stand […]