Out of pure politeness, Toomas Hendrik Ilves pockets the offered business card. The president of Estonia from 2006 to 2016 can’t hide the fact that he doesn’t think much of this German fad – why use paper when you can go digital? And to prove it, he holds out his smartphone with a QR code […]
The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan threatens a new escalation. The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense has repeatedly accused Armenia of illegally transferring weapons, ammunition, as well as fuel and food to the Nagorno-Karabakh region and building new roads there, thus provoking a war.“We declare that the military-political leadership [of Armenia] bears full responsibility for such […]
Fears are growing that undersea data cables and landing points are increasingly becoming targets of hybrid warfare. Since the attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines, politicians, companies and the military have been intensively discussing the possible targeted destruction of undersea cables. Technically, these infrastructures of the information age lie unprotected at the bottom of the […]
The good thing about disruptive events like the corruption scandal in the European Parliament is its aftermath: The debate about a European ethics authority is gaining momentum again, as Eric Bonse reports. Now, strict rules must be introduced for all EU institutions, according to Brussels. However, not all institutions are on the same page by […]
Host Charles Michel overturned the agenda of the summit several times and thus caused some confusion. Nevertheless, shortly after 10 p.m., he announced the summit’s completion – all contentious issues had been resolved. Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke of a “council that was as short as it was constructive.” Earlier, the Polish head of government Mateusz […]
“They accuse everyone that talks to them or engages of corruption,” Eva Kaili, one of the vice presidents of the European Parliament, had said in a speech about Qatar just last November. Last Friday, an arrest warrant was issued against her: On suspicion of corruption and money laundering. Markus Grabitz has the reactions from Parliament. […]
European policymakers seem to be reacting more tautly to the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) than industry and commerce. Biden’s law is intended to promote domestic climate protection through subsidies, but discriminates against European companies, according to the EU Commission, for example. But trade experts and companies can even see positive sides to the IRA, […]
No, blackouts, i.e., an uncontrolled and unforeseen failure of network elements, will not occur in France, said Emmanuelle Wargon, president of the regulatory authority CRE. Nevertheless, the situation is tense. Depending on the scenario, France faces the threat of 20 to 70 hours of power outages in winter. In their text, Tanja Kuchenbecker and Manuel […]
Yesterday’s attack on the European Parliament’s website impressively demonstrated how necessary the planned and already launched new directives and legislation in the cyber security area (NIS2, Cyber Resilience Act) are. While the EP voted on a resolution calling Russia a state sponsor of terrorism, hackers took down the website. Falk Steiner reports on how parliamentarians […]
The European gas price cap continues to take shape. The EU Commission has now drawn up a price cap in a key issues paper. This is to apply to transactions based on the Dutch price index TTF, which are concluded for the following month. Manuel Berkel has analyzed the as yet unpublished paper. Smoking is […]