The EPP Group has nominated Roberta Metsola as candidate for the European Parliament presidency. With 64.4 percent, the Maltese MEP and current Vice-President of the Parliament received the majority of votes in her group. Apart from the Maltese, Dutchwoman Esther de Lange and Austrian Othmar Karas had also applied for the position.EPP Group President Manfred […]
“The pressure to achieve quick results is enormous now,” says Markus Pieper. The CDU MEP is the rapporteur for the directive on the expansion of renewable energies and is thus responsible for one of the most important dossiers in the fight against climate change. In an interview with Timo Landenberger, he talks about the EU […]
It’s one of the central legislative projects for the regulation of large online platforms – the Digital Markets Act. According to information from Europe.Table, the negotiators in the European Parliament have now reached an agreement: The last major point of contention, the handling of personalized advertising, was resolved on Wednesday evening, as it is said […]
The last official day of negotiations at the Climate Change Conference (COP26): many observers expect an extension. We must not settle for the lowest common denominator just before the end, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in Glasgow on Thursday, calling on the states to be more ambitious. The 1.5-degree target is not yet within reach […]
The COP negotiators are slowly moving towards a final declaration; the British COP26 presidency has presented the first draft. It is good “that the text consistently breathes the spirit of more effort in climate protection”, said the German chief negotiator Jochen Flasbarth. But Flasbarth is also critical, though mildly, compared to what environmental organizations have […]
Charles Michel chose big words: He was convinced, the Council President said during his Europe speech in Berlin, that the EU could become “the great power of peace of the 21st century“. However, this power is notoriously difficult in dealing with less peaceful neighbors such as the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. Michel himself is spontaneously […]
Over the past 20 years, emissions from aviation have risen by almost 130 percent, and from shipping by 32 percent. Yet countries’ ambitions to reduce emissions in these sectors are still remarkably low. Lukas Scheid researched why and what it means for the negotiations at the World Climate Conference in Glasgow.William Todts is much clearer […]
COP26 President Alok Sharma has predicted that an agreement in Glasgow will be more difficult than it was in Paris. This is mainly because the industrialized countries in particular are now called upon to agree on concrete measures for global climate protection. This also includes rich countries providing money for the global South – US$100 […]
Green Party leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt has called for short-term financial aid for high energy prices on low incomes. “The state must also enable low-paid workers and beneficiaries to absorb such short-term price spikes,” she told the Bild am Sonntag. Those who drive to work today usually have no alternative, she said, because public transport is […]
This announcement is likely to cause ongoing discussion: following the EU summit, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has spoken out in favor of including nuclear power in the taxonomy. Von der Leyen spoke of the “energy mix of the future” and also mentioned nuclear power in this context. Emmanuel Macron will be pleased, the […]