The Commission’s possible plans to fundamentally restructure the EU budget are provoking mixed reactions in Brussels and the sectors likely to be affected. Representatives of research and agriculture expect significant changes in their sectors.On Sunday, the “FAZ” reported on an internal presentation by the Commission, which revealed that the largest budget items to date, aid […]
Environment Commissioner-designate Jessika Roswall has not yet gained any experience in her area of responsibility; the 51-year-old lawyer’s CV has no direct links to environmental issues. Roswall has been a Moderate member of the Swedish parliament for the Uppsala constituency since 2010 and has worked on consumer and transport policy issues. She has been an […]
The SPD has won the state elections in Brandenburg with a narrow lead over the AfD. After the devastating results in the European elections and the state elections in Thuringia and Saxony, the Social Democrats can now breathe a sigh of relief.The AfD’s favorite topic of migration has shaped the election campaign and continues to […]
Henna Virkkunen’s list of duties is more extensive than the mission letters that Ursula von der Leyen sent to other members of the new Commission. The Finnish woman’s remit is very broad: As Executive Vice-President for Technical Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, she is to ensure that digital technologies are developed in line with European values, […]
Six weeks after the parliamentary elections, France still does not have a new government. President Emmanuel Macron had announced that he would not start forming a government until after the Olympic Games. The calculation behind this is probably to take the wind out of the sails of the left-wing NFP alliance after the election victory. […]
It is only about two hours by ferry from Estonia’s capital Tallinn to Helsinki in Finland. The two countries are also close in terms of language, and they share a great passion: saunas.Thus it was only logical that the heads of government of the two countries started their first meeting by taking a sweat together. […]
Five major German business associations have written a letter to Robert Habeck in which they ask the Federal Minister of Economics to “intervene at the highest level of the EU Commission at short notice”. They oppose new regulations on the carbon footprint of electric car batteries. Manuel Berkel, Leonie Düngefeld and Markus Grabitz write that […]