The Bureau of the European Parliament (“Bureau”) has decided to introduce a European Order of Merit. The occasion is the 75th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, which, according to the Parliament, “laid the foundations for European unity.” Until now, there has been no Order of Merit at the EU level. All 27 member states, except […]
Single Market Strategy: Draft communication that the College intends to adopt on May 21. To the draft Artificial intelligence in media discourse: For the working paper of the Otto Brenner Foundation, the authors examined how issues of social justice were dealt with in reporting on AI after the introduction of ChatGPT. To the working paper […]
Industry Commissioner Stéphane Séjourné proposes a new strategy for the Single Market. The biggest barriers are to be tackled with new approaches in six areas. In order to compensate for the loss of a fifth of US exports, for example, it would be sufficient to increase trade in the Single Market by 2.4 percent, according […]
The delegates at the EPP Congress in Valencia, Spain, have elected the Executive Committee. The deputies of EPP party leader Manfred Weber are elected for the next three years (arranged according to the number of votes achieved):Not elected:At Weber’s suggestion, Dolors Montserrat (PP, Spain), who is already an EPP Group Vice-President, was elected Secretary General. […]
Vans and cars should undergo a periodic technical inspection (PTI) every year from the age of ten. This deadline already applies in several member states; in Germany, the two-year inspection interval applies to cars and vans over a certain age. This is one of the measures proposed by the Commission as part of the revision […]
At the congress of the Christian Democratic party family EPP on Tuesday and Wednesday in Valencia, there will be no opposing candidate for Manfred Weber in the election of the chairman. Party leader Weber, who has also been Group Leader in the European Parliament since 2014, is running for a second three-year term of office. […]
The Commission has launched a consultation on General Purpose AI (GPAI) models, which runs until May 22. Interested parties can share their experiences with GPAI. The Commission is responsible for monitoring and enforcing GPAI regulations. It intends to propose guidelines by August. These are not intended to be binding, but rather to clarify how the […]
The far-right MEPs in the European Parliament are trying to expand their influence. Bernd Lange (SPD), Chairman of the Committee of Committee Chairs (CCC), attests that MEPs from the Patriots for Europe (PfE) group in particular are making a much greater contribution in terms of content than in the previous legislative period: Previously, they had […]
In the Committee on Budgetary Control, there was broad agreement in the vote on the report by Niclas Herbst (CDU) for the discharge of the Commission for 2023. The report contains two passages that deal with the contracts of the EU Commission’s executive agency CINEA with NGOs in the Life Environment Program of the Multiannual […]
The subject of cars arouses emotions, even among many MEPs. Not so with Bernd Lange (SPD). The head of the Trade Committee and the Committee of Committee Chairs conducts his political business in an extremely level-headed manner. For example, as co-author of the German SPD group’s car paper. Even when it comes to tariffs on […]