“Europe needs a stronger capital markets system and it needs a more unified banking system”, said Larry Fink yesterday at the Berlin Global Dialogue. The Blackrock CEO is thus expressing what is widely agreed at the high-caliber conference at the Berlin elite university ESMT: Europe’s companies need better access to capital so that the old […]
Annalena Baerbock has called on the new EU Commission to take stronger action against disinformation on social networks. “If you have algorithms that deliberately spread not only fake news, but also hatred and agitation, (…) then that is a disruption of our democratic reality,” said the Federal Foreign Minister at a Green Party conference in […]
With the support of other member states, the German government is urging swift action against cheap Chinese online retailers such as Shein and Temu. In order to ensure fair competition and consumer protection in the EU, the relevant EU regulations must be “rigorously enforced” – for example on product safety and environmental protection, according to […]
EPP Group Leader Manfred Weber has written to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen asking her to postpone the implementation of the Deforestation Regulation “for at least twelve months”. The letter, dated Sept. 20, is available to Table.Briefings. In it, Weber warns that the EU would otherwise risk a shortage and possibly sharp price increases […]
Olaf Scholz is an avowed fan of the European banking union. “We need a common market for banking services”, emphasized the Federal Chancellor at the German Banking Day in April. He wants to make the capital market union and the banking union a “top priority”.Now one could argue that a cross-border merger is in the […]
Philippe Lamberts is to become the new advisor to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. The 61-year-old Belgian was co-leader of the Green Group in the European Parliament during the last legislative period. He will be responsible for von der Leyen’s relations with industry and civil society as well as with her former colleagues on […]
Ursula von der Leyen was still working on the puzzle of her new Commission well into the night on Tuesday. It was not only the last-minute change from Thierry Breton to Stéphane Séjourné that forced the Commission President to make changes here and there in order to balance the many wishes of the member states. […]
The tensions between the Commission President and the Commissioner had been evident for some time, but on Monday morning things came to a head: Thierry Breton handed in his immediate resignation and accused Ursula von der Leyen of a “questionable management style.”The former Commissioner for the Internal Market thus chose to run for the post. […]
Anyone who has recently frequented the Member’s Bar of the European Parliament in Strasbourg or the streets of Brussels’ European Quarter is likely to have come across Sven Giegold. The former Green MEP is currently spending a lot of time in his old workplace. Not out of nostalgia, but to promote the German positions (or […]
High-level corruption that goes unpunished, courts that follow the same rules, discriminatory LGBTQ laws: The EU Commission has taken vigorous action against many abuses in Hungary. It has frozen billions in funds and taken Budapest to the European Court of Justice (ECJ). However, the Brussels authority is conspicuously hesitant to react when Prime Minister Viktor […]