As the climate targets for passenger cars are likely to be massively missed, a group of researchers is calling for an immediate and comprehensive revision of the EU’s CO2 fleet legislation. This is the central message of the white paper “CO2 emission regulations for passenger cars” from the International Association of Sustainable Drivetrain and Vehicle […]
The Baden-Württemberg state government is calling for the accelerated development of an EU-wide network of charging and filling stations for climate-neutral drives. In addition, access to vehicle data should be regulated on a sector-specific basis. These are two key demands of the “Concerns for the term of office of the EU institutions for 2024 to […]
The tenth parliamentary term of the European Parliament begins today. MEPs, staff, visitors and journalists can enjoy the new access area at the Parliament’s headquarters in Strasbourg. The security gates in the barracks are history. When the crowds are there, they can now queue in a beautiful, new, underground, covered and well-tempered area.As the first […]
Andrea Wechsler (CDU), a first-time MEP from Baden-Württemberg, takes over the chairmanship of the parliamentary group of the non-partisan Europa-Union in the European Parliament. She takes over the chairmanship from Niklas Nienaß, who was not re-elected. Sabrina Repp from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania joins the board on behalf of the SPD, taking over from Gaby Bischoff, who […]
Next Thursday at 1 p.m., the European Parliament will vote on whether Ursula von der Leyen will get a second term as Commission President. There is only one round of voting, and it will be a secret ballot. The candidate needs 361 votes – one more than an absolute majority of seats – regardless of […]
The EPP, S&D, Renew and the Greens have agreed on a distribution of the posts which, according to D’Hondt, would go to the radical right-wing group “Patriots for Europe”. According to the current state of negotiations, the Vice-President post is to go to the Socialists and the Quaestor post to Renew. The right to chair […]
The “Europe of Sovereign Nations” group founded on Wednesday has 25 members. 14 of them come from the AfD, who have joined forces with muddleheads, Russia-lovers and EU-haters. Maximilian Krah is left out. This means that the European Parliament will start the new legislative period with eight political groups. As the deadline for the distribution […]
One week before the constituent session, the European Parliament is sorting itself out: On Tuesday, the political groups largely agreed on the distribution of the most important posts. These include, in particular, the 14 vice-presidential posts and the chairmanship of the 20 committees. The committee chairs have a lot of power, they set the agenda […]
The far-right group “Patriots for Europe”, which was founded on Monday, starts the parliamentary term with 84 seats. This makes it the third largest group in the European Parliament , overtaking the conservative ECR Group. As things stand, the latter has 78 seats, two more than the liberal Renew.The new “Patriots for Europe” group has […]