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Markus Grabitz

Markus Grabitz Published: February 8th, 2023

Zelenskiy’s Brussels visit not yet official

There is no official confirmation of Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s visit to Brussels on Thursday. Confirmed is only that Council President Charles Michel invited the Ukrainian President to attend a European Council. That he will come to the summit, where Russia, Ukraine, and migration are on the agenda, as early as Thursday and Friday, is not confirmed.There […]

Markus Grabitz Published: February 7th, 2023

Zelenskiy to visit Brussels

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is expected to arrive in Brussels on Thursday. A special session of the European Parliament is to be held, at which Zelenskiy is expected to speak. He is also expected to attend the European Council, the meeting of heads of state and government. The special summit on Thursday and Friday will […]

Markus Grabitz Published: February 7th, 2023

EP drops RED trilogue

Parliament’s negotiators on the Renewable Energy Directive (RED), Nils Torvalds (Renew) for the Environment Committee ENVI and Markus Pieper (CDU) for the Industry Committee ITRE, have canceled the trilogue scheduled for today.The reason is that the Commission has still not submitted the Delegated Act with the definition of green hydrogen. In a letter to the […]

Markus Grabitz Published: February 7th, 2023

Bullmann chairs Human Rights Committee

Udo Bullmann (SPD) has been elected Chairman of the Human Rights Committee in the European Parliament (DROI) with the votes of all members present. The 66-year-old succeeds Maria Arena (S&D), who resigned in the wake of the Eva Kaili corruption affair. She was forced to admit that she had attended a human rights conference in […]

Markus Grabitz Published: February 6th, 2023

EU election projection: EPP and Renew gain ground

In a projection for the next European election, the Christian Democratic EPP party family and the liberal Renew Group slightly gain. The Greens, Social Democrats and Left lose slightly in the latest edition of the study “if European elections were held next Sunday”.For his series, political scientist Manuel Müller analyzes opinion polls in all 27 […]

Markus Grabitz Published: February 5th, 2023

Kaili corruption affair: millions from EU budget for suspicious NGOs

NGOs involved in the corruption scandal surrounding Eva Kaili (formerly S&D) have received funding worth millions from the EU budget. According to investigations by the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT), whose funding records are available to Table.Media, two NGOs registered under the same address as the NGO “Fight Impunity” of the confessed prime […]

Markus Grabitz Published: February 3rd, 2023

Commission to develop cycling strategy

The European Parliament’s Transport Committee (TRAN) calls on the Commission to present a cycling strategy. It should pursue the goal of doubling the number of kilometers cycled in the EU by 2030. The resolution, which was adopted by the Committee, also calls for manufacturers and the supply industry around bicycles, as well as e-bikes and […]

Markus Grabitz Published: February 3rd, 2023

NRW distances itself from EU pesticide regulation

The state government of North Rhine-Westphalia has reservations about the EU Commission’s proposal to drastically reduce the use of plant protection products. The black-green government’s assessment of the Commission’s work program, which is available to Europe.Table and will be published today, says: “In the proposal for the Plant Protection Products Regulation, which envisages a Europe-wide […]

Markus Grabitz Published: February 2nd, 2023

Bullmann to head Human Rights Committee

SPD MEP Udo Bullmann is to head the Human Rights Committee (DROI) in the European Parliament. S&D group leader Iratxe García Peréz announced at the group conference on Monday that the 66-year-old MEP from Hesse is the Socialists’ candidate in the election for the leadership of the subcommittee. The election is necessary after the resignation […]

Markus Grabitz Published: February 2nd, 2023

Florian Hassler – Kretschmann’s understanding of Europe

In 2011, Florian Hassler could have entered the Bundestag as a successor for the Greens. But the then 34-year-old decided against it. Many others would have preferred to start a career as a member of parliament on their own account instead of continuing in the second tier of politics. Hassler, however, felt obligated to the […]