The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has postponed the decision on the provisionally suspended General Secretary Luca Visentini. Visentini has been heavily implicated in the wake of the corruption scandal surrounding criminal NGOs in Brussels. During a video call on Friday, the ITUC General Council decided to do nothing until the next regular meeting on […]
Will factories for EV and truck batteries be mainly built in the United States in the future? In Brussels, there is concern that Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will encourage future technologies to settle on the other side of the Atlantic. Soon, the EU Commission will present its response to this industrial policy challenge. […]
The rapporteur for the air quality directive will be Spanish Socialist Javi López. The Commission proposes to significantly tighten the limit values for air pollutants per cubic meter of air. They are to be brought closer to the WHO guideline levels. Shadow rapporteurs will be Norbert Lins (CDU) and Green Michael Bloss. Parliamentary work is […]
The Socialists are sending Luxembourg MEP Marc Angel as their candidate in the election for the post of Vice President in the European Parliament. For the Greens, Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield from France prevailed. Angel is running for the post of Greek MEP Eva Kaili, who was removed as Vice President in the wake of the corruption […]
On Wednesday, Socialists and Greens will choose their respective candidates for the vacant post of Vice-President in the European Parliament. The background is the corruption scandal surrounding Greek MEP Eva Kaili, who belonged to the S&D group and previously held the position. The candidates stand for election in the group meetings. There are eight candidates […]
The working day for the Green leadership starts early: Coordinated by party headquarters, the heads of the party and parliamentary group and the Green federal ministers get together by phone every morning, usually at 7:30. Terry Reintke, head of the Green Group in the European Parliament, and Rasmus Andresen, head of the German Green Party, […]
Tobacco products in which the tobacco is not burned, but only heated, may not contain characteristic flavorings such as menthol from July 23 in Germany. This is provided for in a draft law to be passed by the cabinet on Feb. 15, which is available to Europe.Table. The law is intended to implement a corresponding […]
The Socialist Group (S&D) in the European Parliament is setting up a commission to deal internally with the corruption affair surrounding the former vice president of the Parliament, Eva Kaili. According to information available to Europe.Table, the mandate will be decided at the next parliamentary group meeting. Before Christmas, group leader Iratxe Gárcia Pérez is […]
The Vice President of the European Parliament, Rainer Wieland, is in favor of depriving legally convicted MEPs of their pension rights. “In the aftermath of the corruption affair, the possibility should be created to also deprive MEPs of pension entitlements in such cases,” the CDU politician said in an interview with Europe.Table. So far, the […]
The EU Commission cannot find management personnel for its regional representations in Bonn and Munich. The management of the Commission’s representation in Munich has been vacant since September 2020. The management of the regional representation in Bonn since September 2021. The regional office in Bonn is responsible for North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, and Saarland. Around […]