Three AI language models from China, Europe and the USA are surprisingly similar when applied to the Wahl-O-Mat for the Bundestag elections. The IHK Stuttgart has tested it. “Our digitalization team was quick and evaluated the Wahl-O-Mat theses using various language models,” says Susanne Herre, Managing Director of the Stuttgart Region Chamber of Industry and […]
Work on the Action Plan for the automotive industry, which Transport Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas is due to present on March 5, is in the decisive phase. Following the launch of the Strategic Dialogue on the future of the industry on Jan. 30, at which Commission President Ursula von der Leyen heard from CEOs of manufacturers […]
In the Conference of Presidents (COP), the S&D and Greens, together with the two radical right-wing groups Patriots for Europe and ESN (Europe of Sovereign Nations), have pushed through a plenary debate in the coming week’s session in Strasbourg. The EPP had voted against it. On Thursday at 10:30 a.m., the European Parliament will debate […]
Friedrich Pürner, who entered parliament for the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) in June, is leaving the party. The reason for this is “the discrepancy between what we aspired to as goals and visions at the founding party conference (Jan. 27, 2024) and what is now the reality of everyday life in the party”.Pürner was one […]
The Commission’s legislative proposals for a new definition of SMEs and for reducing bureaucracy are due in the second quarter. According to a draft of the work program that the College intends to adopt next week, an “omnibus” package “on small mid-caps and the removal of paper requirements” is planned for the second quarter, as […]
The MEPs of the Italian “Five Star Movement” will remain in the Left Group in the European Parliament. The group’s executive committee has decided to grant them full membership. At the beginning of the parliamentary term, it had been agreed that the eight Five Star MEPs would initially become members of the group on a […]
The state government of Baden-Württemberg is against the introduction of uniform plans for each member state in the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). “Such a centralization of funding programs would contradict both the basic idea of cohesion policy and the principle of subsidiarity,” states a position paper for the MFF after 2027, which the Green-Black […]
The S&D Group calls on Budget Commissioner Piotr Serafin to scrutinize not just the funding of environmental NGOs from the 2023 budget year. Further contracts with all beneficiaries of the Directorates-General should be investigated:The Socialists and Democrats criticized the EPP for only focusing on non-governmental organizations. “What the EPP is doing is outrageous,” said S&D […]
Euromat 2025, the digital election tool for the Bundestag elections, is now available online at www.euromat.info. Euromat includes all statements on European policy in the election manifestos of the parties represented in the Bundestag. It is available in English and German. Decisions at the national level strongly influence political decisions at the European level and […]
Will a right-wing extremist be elected head of government in Austria for the first time with the votes of the Christian Democrats? That is not out of the question. FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl, who won the elections, is negotiating with the second-placed ÖVP about forming a coalition. According to reports, the talks are proceeding with […]