A novelty has happened. Without votes from Germany and France, the two largest member states, the EU labor ministers launched new rules for workers on large online platforms on Monday. Paris voted against the directive, which is intended in particular to prevent bogus self-employment in delivery and driving services such as Uber. The German traffic […]
With the collar of her trench coat turned up for stormy weather and a determined look on her face, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann heads into the upcoming election campaign. The FDP’s strategists have printed the slogan “Fighting for Europe” on her election poster, with her campaign name above it: “Eurofighterin”, which is a German feminized version of […]
SPD’s lead candidate for the European elections, Katarina Barley, believes that admitting new members to the EU in the next five years is unlikely. “I tend to be rather pessimistic about that,” said the Vice President of the European Parliament on Thursday at an event hosted by Table.Briefings and the European Movement Germany (EBD). Recently, […]
Is the next German Vote on the horizon? On Tuesday night, the EU Parliament and Council reached an agreement on an import ban for products from forced labor – however, whether the traffic light coalition will support the agreement is highly questionable. According to government circles in Berlin, the FDP has recently raised political concerns. […]
The European Parliament’s former chief negotiator for the General Data Protection Regulation, Jan Philipp Albrecht, calls for more pragmatism from the supervisory authorities. “The German data protection authorities should focus more on a common understanding of the rules,” said the Heinrich Böll Foundation board member in an interview with Table.Media.Up to now, the 18 supervisory […]
The socialist party family PES is meeting in Rome to select Nicolas Schmit from Luxembourg as their lead candidate in the European elections. The Social Democrats have not given up hope of making Schmit President of the Commission. However, the polls show the EPP and its candidate Ursula von der Leyen clearly in the lead. […]
It happens not often that the two most important European politicians contradict each other so openly. At the meeting of more than 20 heads of state and government the previous evening, there was once again “very unanimous” agreement, said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday, “that there will be no ground troops, no soldiers on […]
Olaf Scholz is running in the European elections: Most people would probably consign this claim directly to the world of fake news. Not so in Italy. Here, the head of government is actually toying with the idea of having her name on the ballot paper at the beginning of June. Giorgia Meloni has not yet […]
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Chair of the Bundestag’s Defense Committee, is calling for a European security conference at the highest political level given the threat posed by Russia. The EU heads of state and government should discuss the pressing issues of European security and defense policy in order to send a “clear commitment to their countries”, she […]
The directive on platform work could fail in this legislative period due to a lack of support among the member states. On Friday, the compromise previously negotiated with the European Parliament failed once again to gain the necessary majority in the Permanent Representatives Committee. The Belgian Council Presidency now has to decide how to proceed. […]