The Greens’ lead candidate, Terry Reintke, warns against questioning central elements of the Green Deal after the European elections in June. “If we reopen the laws now, as the CDU/CSU want to do with the combustion engine, this will again lead to planning uncertainty,” she said on Tuesday at an event organized by Table.Briefings and […]
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas warns of “a flood of disinformation” from malicious actors. “Today, the front line of Putin’s so-called shadow war runs through the hearts of our democracies,” said Kallas during a joint appearance with Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin. This included parliaments as well as social and sensational media.According to Kallas, Russia’s […]
The traffic light coalition may yet agree on a common position on the EU nature restoration law. Germany will agree to the law and state in a protocol declaration that farmers should not incur any additional burdens during implementation, a spokesperson for the Federal Ministry for the Environment told Table.Briefings on Tuesday evening.Federal Finance Minister […]
Friedrich August von Hayek is not exactly the body and soul economist of the social democrats. In his work “The Road to Serfdom”, the Austrian thinker declared socialism to be incompatible with democracy and individual freedom. Even a social market economy, Hayek argued at the time, was no longer a market economy. Today, Hayek would […]
The FDP is once again opposing an EU proposal in the Berlin coalition shortly before the final vote: The house of Federal Minister for Financial Affairs Christian Lindner informed the other ministries involved on Monday that it does not want to support the law to restore nature, as Table.Briefings learned from government circles. Next Monday, […]
The EU foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels today, Monday. The wars in Ukraine and Gaza once again dominating the agenda. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will join the meeting via video call in the morning, as will his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba.One of the points: the use of the income generated by the […]
The EU states have launched a new law to reduce packaging waste. The necessary qualified majority of deputy ambassadors approved the Packaging Regulation on Friday. Only Austria and Malta did not support the compromise, as was reported in Brussels.The Belgian Council Presidency had previously succeeded in persuading reluctant states such as Italy to change their […]
This Friday will (once again) see a showdown in Brussels: The deputy ambassadors of the member states will vote for the third time on the Supply Chain Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and are also expected to approve the Packaging Ordinance. The two projects have little to do with each other in terms of content, but […]
Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) is taking a dim view of the planned EU packaging regulation. His ministry informed the other ministries involved on Thursday that it would not support the outcome of the negotiations in Brussels. Table.Briefings learned this from circles within the traffic light coalition. Talks at ministerial level within the coalition […]
It is difficult to pass a resolution in the EU Council without Germany, such is the voting weight of the most populous member state. However, Berlin has now been booted out for the second time this week: 24 out of 27 governments voted in favor of the ban on products from forced labor on Wednesday […]