Progress on the second “Important Project of Common European Interest” in the field of microelectronics is proceeding slowly: the Member States involved in the second IPCEI on Microelectronics and the European Commission are currently coordinating in order to agree on the exact project descriptions. These must comply with European state aid law, i.e. fulfil the […]
The first steps have been taken with the AI regulation – and even with the e-privacy regulation, which has been overdue for five years , things are slowly moving again. The movement is due not least to the European Council: at their meeting on 21 and 22 October, the 27 heads of state and government […]
Facebook is now called Meta – it’s just the corporation behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. That sounds familiar? Perhaps to Alphabet, which to this day everyone knows only as Google? Will it be a bit more confusing for the regulators in Brussels and Berlin if they have Alphabet and Meta regulation as their task in […]
A good five years ago, the EU had created a legal framework for the creation of a trustworthy identification framework in the digital space with the eIDAS Regulation. However, hardly any of the promises have been fulfilled – while private identity service providers are booming. The industry committee ITRE is in charge of the dossier […]
The revision of the Network and Information Security Directive (NIS) cleared an important hurdle yesterday: The lead Industry Committee (ITRE) gave the negotiating mandate to Dutchman Bart Groothuis (VVD/Renew) and agreed on common amendment requests to the Commission proposal. This means that negotiations could start quickly. If the other committees agree to the ITRE’s petition, […]
It was considered a prime example of a successfully working committee: the Federal Government’s Data Ethics Commission, whose 16 members had developed comprehensive proposals for an appropriate political treatment of current issues surrounding data and artificial intelligence by the autumn of 2019. Now, the Federation of German Consumer Organisations has examined the actual implementation of […]
Never before have so many MEPs participated in the formation of a federal government as in these coalition negotiations: A total of 18 current and 3 former MEPs are part of the negotiating teams of SPD, Greens and FDP. And this also in other topics than, pardon, “just” Europe – from A for Albrecht and […]
Energy prices continue to be a topic of discussion, and strategic European gas procurement, including storage capacities, is one of the conceivable options. This could curb Vladimir Putin’s power. However, such market interventions are controversial. Lukas Scheid and Timo Landenberger analyze the arguments – and look for common European interests.Germany has not finalized its position […]
Today, the explorers want to present the business basis for coalition negotiations – they stress repeatedly that a future government must take care of the big questions of our time.But exactly how this is to be achieved is an open question. Now, influential actors have written a clear mandate for German politics under the heading […]
Welcome to the 42nd edition of Europe.Table. And because we are always working on many answers, we are starting today with a few questions: What do you like, what not so much? What do you think we could do better? You can contact me at falk.steiner@table.media.The end of cookie banners? An effect if Green MEP […]