EPP leader Manfred Weber has criticized the new government coalition in the Netherlands. He said that the liberal VVD party of Mark Rutte is forming a coalition with far-right Geert Wilders without having to justify it much. Weber made these comments on Thursday at an event hosted by Table.Briefings and the European Movement Germany. The […]
Mister Breton, you discussed the satellite-based connectivity project Iris² with Minister Habeck. He thinks that the project is becoming too expensive… Iris² was not the reason for my visit. It is a formal procurement, and everything is done by the rules. The co-legislators decided that the backbone would be financed by EU funds. It is a […]
Parliament President Roberta Metsola’s guest appearance at the European Council is usually just a kind of warm-up for the actual meeting of the heads of state and government. At the most recent Council in mid-April, however, Mark Rutte got straight to the point: the outgoing Dutch Prime Minister warned that the Parliament should not take […]
The CDU has often been at odds with Ursula von der Leyen. However, during her appearance at the CDU federal party conference on Wednesday, the EU Commission President and EPP lead candidate for the European elections finally got the delegates behind her. And she did so with harsh criticism of the AfD: “The AfD is […]
An alliance of civil society organizations is calling for more transparency and participation in the preparation of Mario Draghi’s report on Europe’s competitiveness. The report will have an enormous impact on the mandate of the next EU Commission and the future of the EU, the 13 NGOs write in an open letter to the former […]
The co-leader of the Left Party in the European Parliament, Martin Schirdewan, rules out participating in a coalition in favor of Ursula von der Leyen after the European elections. The CDU politician and the parliamentary groups in the so-called Ursula coalition stand for a different policy to that of the Left, Schirdewan said on Friday […]
At first glance, the matter seems clear: at their summit in mid-April, the heads of state and government agreed to “continue work without delay” in the Council and the Commission on all necessary measures to create truly integrated European capital markets. The first item on the list is the “harmonization of relevant aspects of national […]
According to the Centre for European Policy (Cep), the new EU Commission should make the European single market even more of a “geopolitical safe space.” Further measures are needed to improve the protection of local companies from disrupted supply chains for critical raw materials and technologies as well as from coercive economic measures by third […]
With just under six weeks to go until the European elections, the election campaign is picking up speed. The SPD, FDP, CSU, Left Party and AfD hosted party conferences and kick-off events at the weekend. FDP lead candidate Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann criticized Commission President Ursula von der Leyen – the EPP candidate is hiding and “not […]
On Thursday, the European Parliament adopted the Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA). 361 MEPs voted in favor of the bill, 121 against. The Council must now give its formal approval for the NZIA to enter into force.The legal act is intended to strengthen the EU member states as a location for climate-friendly technologies. By 2030, the […]