In its report, the European Court of Auditors criticizes the lack of transparency in the funding of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by the EU. There is no reliable overview of the EU funds that flow to NGOs. This is astonishing given the amount of funds that the EU pays out to NGOs. In the years 2021 […]
A roll-call vote on the estimates for the 2026 budget on Thursday gave a foretaste of how the European Parliament, which has moved significantly to the right, could deal with the planned ethics body. A right-wing majority of 289 MEPs from the EPP, PfE, ECR and ESN groups allowed a motion to fall through against […]
The three MEPs Norbert Lins (CDU), Christian Ehler (CDU) and Markus Ferber (CSU) blame Minister for Economic Affairs Robert Habeck (Greens) for delays in the approval of the Solar Package I under state aid law. The German government had already been aware of the obligation to include a clawback clause in the Renewable Energy Sources […]
It was not the Legal Affairs Committee but the plenary that decided to proceed with a vote on the omnibus legislation concerning the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and sustainability reporting obligations under the urgent procedure. Additionally, the quote from René Repasi, head of the SPD delegation in the European Parliament, was misstated in […]
The Commission admits to inadmissible lobbying activities to which some NGOs have been committed through contracts for operating grants under the Life Environment Program. In doing so, the Commission is taking up the criticism of Monika Hohlmeier (CSU) regarding a series of contracts between the Commission’s executive agency CINEA and several NGOs.The Commission wants to […]
Tensions are rising in the Von der Leyen coalition. The pro-European groups EPP, S&D and Renew are once again battling over the question of whether the conservative ECR group should also be included in agreements. The participation of groups further to the right in votes is also controversial. The bureaucracy omnibus is the test case […]
Huawei technology is to be banned from EU institutions. In this way, the risk of espionage by Huawei is to be averted. There are indications that Huawei technology poses a similar threat as TikTok, 25 MEPs from the Greens, S&Ds and Liberals wrote in a letter to Parliament President Roberta Metsola and Commission President Ursula […]
The EPP has drawn the report for the omnibus on sustainability reporting in the lead Legal Affairs Committee. Jörgen Warborn, MEP from Sweden, will be the rapporteur. The coordinators in the Environment Committee decided that there should be an accelerated procedure. This means that no rapporteur will be appointed. The shadow rapporteurs for the omnibus […]
The resolution on the discharge for the 2023 financial year did not receive a majority in the Budgetary Control Committee. Socialists, Greens and the far-right Patriots and Sovereignists voted against the report by Monika Hohlmeier (CSU). Renew abstained.This means that the resolution, in which Hohlmeier and shadow rapporteur Daniel Freund had agreed on many recommendations […]