On July 1, the changes to the voluntary pension scheme in the European Parliament, which is threatened with bankruptcy, will come into effect, as recently decided by the Bureau. A memo from the Bureau, obtained by Europe.Table, reveals the details of the benefit cuts:In addition, the possibility of voluntary and final withdrawal from the system […]
From now on, interest representatives and lobbyists may only participate in events in the European Parliament if they have been registered in the lobby register beforehand. This applies both to events organized jointly by interest representatives such as NGO staff or lobbyists and political groups and to events organized by political groups or individual MEPs […]
To mark the 60th anniversary of the Élysée Treaties, the governments in Berlin and Paris have launched the Friendship Pass. 30,000 of them are available to 18- to 27-year-olds on both sides of the Rhine. The tickets were distributed to travel enthusiasts yesterday. It’s a bit like Interrail: on seven days within a month, seven […]
The story about a certain visa goes back almost 40 years. It was in the 80s, the current president of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg was visiting the school. A trip to Strasbourg was on the agenda. As a student with a Turkish passport, she needed a visa to enter France. Her father, who was […]
The Commission intends to present a proposal for the tobacco tax reform by the end of the year. This was announced by the Commission at the end of April at a meeting of the EU Council Working Group on Fiscal Affairs. Table.Media has received the wire report (“Diplomatic Correspondence“) with which the Permanent Representation in […]
The main suspect in the European Parliament’s corruption scandal, deposed Vice-President Eva Kaili, is at large again. An investigating judge in Brussels ruled yesterday that she could take off her ankle monitor and leave her apartment again. Her former parliamentary group, the socialist S&D, expelled the Greek woman after the allegations became known. But Kaili […]
Walter Goetz, Head of Cabinet of Transport Commissioner Adina Vălean, is leaving the Commission after the summer break. Goetz will become head of the European Parliament’s liaison office in Washington. The German Commission official was an official in the European Parliament before joining the Vălean cabinet. The European Parliament maintains liaison offices in the capitals […]
‘Commission ban’ – this irritant word which is a red flag in the financial industry – was only in a draft for the retail investor strategy. Under massive pressure from the lobby and probably also after intervention from the German Federal Ministry of Finance, the proposal that the Commission intends to adopt today no longer […]
The Bureau of the European Parliament has adopted measures at a special meeting to limit claims on the ailing supplementary pension fund for MEPs: This reduces the payment obligations from €353 million to €130 million. However, even these measures will not solve the fund’s financial problems, but merely postpone them.Now the insolvency of the fund, […]
A blocking minority is forming in the Council against Euro 7. Eight member states – France, Italy, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia – have joined forces to reject the Commission’s emissions regulation proposal, in part outright. “We are opposed to any new tailpipe emission rules, including new test conditions and pollutant […]