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Markus Grabitz Published: May 23rd, 2024

Election aid: Euromat soon online

Euromat, a voting aid for the European elections, is going online. It will go live just in time for the debate between the leading candidates in the European Parliament this Thursday afternoon. Table.Briefings is the exclusive media partner of the service.Euromat allows users to answer questions on European politics (“agree”, “disagree” or “neutral”). They are […]

Markus Grabitz Published: May 22nd, 2024

AfD kicked out of ID group: Marine Le Pen’s plan

Marine Le Pen, leader of the Rassemblement National (RN) parliamentary group in the French National Assembly, made the separation from the AfD perfect with a radio interview on Wednesday morning. “It’s time to make the break”, she said on Europe 1, adding that the AfD was rushing from provocation to provocation. The RN had initially […]

Markus Grabitz Published: May 21st, 2024

European Parliament: Why Le Pen is finally breaking with the AfD

After the European elections, Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement national (RN) no longer wants to be in a parliamentary group with the MEPs of the German AfD. MEP Thibaut François, who is responsible for the RN’s international relations, told our colleagues at “Contexte” about this.The far-right party of Marine Le Pen is thus reacting to a […]

Markus Grabitz Published: May 15th, 2024

Dispute over Brenner Pass: What the Commission says

Austria is obstructing the free movement of goods in Europe on the Brenner Pass with measures against truck traffic. This is the conclusion reached by the EU Commission in its reasoned opinion. On the A 12 and A 13 highways, the Tyrolean government has imposed night-time driving bans, truck dosages and driving bans on Saturdays.The […]

Markus Grabitz Published: May 15th, 2024

The impasse over the formation of a government in the Netherlands is set to end today. The deadline for the negotiating group appointed by parliament to submit its proposal expires at midnight. It is very likely that the four parties involved will come together. These are the far-right PVV of Geert Wilders, the long-standing liberal […]

Markus Grabitz Published: May 14th, 2024

Georgia: What Baerbock and colleagues are urging Borrell to do

Despite the mass protests in the country, Georgia’s pro-Russian majority in parliament is likely to pass the controversial law “for transparency on foreign influence” as early as today. In view of this scenario, the foreign ministers of twelve EU states have sent a joint letter to Foreign Affairs Commissioner Josep Borrell and Enlargement Commissioner Olivér […]

Markus Grabitz Published: May 7th, 2024

Von der Leyen II: The European Greens’ capability of forming a coalition

The Greens want to work together with Christian Democrats, Socialists and Liberals after the European elections. This claim is being made unequivocally by leading politicians of the European Greens in these final weeks before the elections. Unlike in the current mandate, in which the Greens were not part of the informal Von-der-Leyen coalition, this time […]

Markus Grabitz Published: May 7th, 2024

Today, at its federal party conference in Berlin, the CDU is adopting the fourth basic program in its history – after 1978, 1994 and 2007. In it, the Union makes a very fundamental commitment to Europe: the two-page chapter on Europe begins with the sentence: “We are the German European party.” The Union is prepared […]

Markus Grabitz Published: May 6th, 2024

Ursula von der Leyen needs to switch roles perfectly these days. One day she is the lead candidate for the Christian Democratic EPP. Therefore, she is campaigning. At the same time, she is required to take a polemical and party-political stance. Then she has to slip back into the role of Commission President. She is […]

Markus Grabitz Published: May 6th, 2024

What the PiS list reveals about the power struggle within the party

Contrary to expectations, the Polish PiS has not only nominated supporters of party leader Jarosław Kaczyński on promising list positions for the European elections. Of the candidates in the top 20 places, more than half are considered critical of Putin and in cooperation with Hungary’s Fidesz.PiS is the strongest group in the conservative ECR group, […]