Diesel technology is also to be banned for buses. This is revealed in a Commission draft for CO2 fleet targets for heavy-duty vehicles, which is available to Europe.Table. The transition to battery-electric drives is particularly challenging for long-distance buses: This vehicle type is equipped with energy-intensive auxiliary units such as cooking and air-conditioning systems, which […]
According to information obtained by Europe.Table, German EU Ambassador Michael Clauß has written an “urgent letter” to the German government, calling for better coordination between the federal ministries and the Chancellery on EU dossiers. Information from EU diplomats says the letter was sent as a “diplomatic cable” to numerous recipients in Berlin. The Foreign Office […]
The EPP member parties are not doing well in the polls. If European elections were held on Sunday, the EPP group in Parliament would drop from 176 to 166 seats, according to a calculation by political scientist Manuel Müller. While the data is still from polls before the corruption scandal involving the Socialist Group came […]
The S&D Group is setting up a commission to deal internally with the scandal surrounding the former Vice President of the European Parliament Eva Kaili: According to information available to Europe.Table, the commission will be headed by Silvana Bacigalupo and Richard Corbett. Bacigalupo is head of Transparency International in Spain and professor of criminal law […]
Luxembourg Socialist Marc Angel is the new Vice President of the European Parliament. The 59-year-old was elected in the third round of voting with 307 votes. This means that the European Parliament once again has 14 Vice Presidents. The election had become necessary after the previous Vice President Eva Kaili was arrested at the beginning […]
Due to the strike in France, the European Parliament postpones the votes on the trilogue mandate of the EMPL committee on platform work and on the own-initiative report “European Works Councils”. Both votes were scheduled for today, Thursday, and will now take place at the next Strasbourg plenary session (Feb. 13-16).The EU should create a […]
Italian former MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri, a prime suspect in the corruption scandal, wants to come clean. Panzeri, who is pulling all the strings in the case involving criminal NGOs and deposed European Parliament Vice President Eva Kaili, signed a deal with the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office on Tuesday. The Belgian prosecutor’s office informed about […]
The compromise of the European Parliament on the directive for platform work is wavering. In December, the EMPL committee voted on the report of Elisabetta Gualmini (S&D) and decided on the trilogue mandate. Now the request of a group of more than 70 MEPs to vote in plenary on the trilogue mandate has reached the […]
Mr. Schirdewan, the Left Party has not yet been implicated in the corruption scandal. Have you asked internally whether any group members have had any contact with the NGOs involved?The Left Group has had no contact with the scandal so far. The Socialist Group in particular is seriously affected, but the scandal also has a […]
At the opening ceremony of the spaceport for satellite launches in Esrange, north of the Swedish town of Kiruna, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen emphasized its strategic importance. Von der Leyen spoke Friday of an important moment for Europe and for the European space industry. “As the first orbital launch site on our mainland, Esrange […]