The Commission has granted approval for the adapted Covid-19 vaccine Comirnaty XBB.1.5, developed by BioNTech Pfizer. This vaccine is the third adaptation in response to new Covid variants.Health and Food Safety Commissioner Stella Kyriakides welcomed the approval of the adapted Covid vaccine. She said it targets emerging and spreading variants: “Covid-19 will circulate with seasonal […]
Bulgaria’s candidate for the vacant post of science commissioner, Iliana Ivanova, will face hearings in the European Parliament’s Committees on Tuesday. The hearing by the Industry, Science and Energy and Culture and Education Committees will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and will be broadcast live on EbS+. The replacement has become necessary […]
Mr. Weber, competitiveness and migration – are these the EPP’s themes in the election campaign?Yes. Concerns about the future of jobs and the rising numbers of irregular migration – these are the two issues occupying the minds of EU citizens. And the EPP will also clearly address these two issues in the election campaign.Migration numbers […]
Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski has made unclear statements in the Agriculture Committee on the import ban on Ukrainian grain to the direct neighboring states. He personally was in favor of extending the import ban to Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, which expired on Sept. 15. However, he does not speak for the Commission here, […]
The Commission still needs time to regulate synthetic fuels in new cars and vans. According to information from Table.Media, its proposal on how new vehicles with synthetic fuels (e-fuels) can be registered beyond the ban on internal combustion engines from 2035 will come in November at the earliest.The Commission had announced the proposal for approval […]
German Economy Minister Robert Habeck has said that his ministry is already in talks with the EU Commission about a subsidized industrial electricity price. After the cabinet retreat, he said in response to a journalist’s question: “We have repeatedly talked with the Commission about the industrial electricity price.” He said there was an “ongoing channel […]
A subsidized industrial electricity price, as demanded by Economics Minister Robert Habeck, would have to be approved by the Commission and would meet with resistance in Brussels. That’s according to the response from Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager to a question from internal market expert Andreas Schwab (CDU), available to Table.Media. In its response, the Commission […]
The Spanish Council Presidency’s compromise proposal for the Euro 7 pollutant standard is based on the demands of the initially eight, now ten member states around France, Italy, the Czech Republic and Portugal. These member states have a blocking minority in the Council and reject tighter limits for vehicles with internal combustion engines. Spain intends […]
F – this is the grade given by Norbert Lins (CDU), head of the EU Agriculture Committee, to Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski. It is about the crisis management of Ukrainian export grain. In an interview with Markus Grabitz, he explains what he would do differently.Mr. Lins, Moscow has terminated the grain agreement and is bombarding Ukraine’s […]
There is no one who has followed the events in the directly elected representation of the EU citizens from the beginning until today as closely as Bernd Posselt. He was there when the first directly elected EU Parliament met in Strasbourg on July 17, 1979. At that time he was 23 years old and assistant […]