Mr. Große Entrup, the Coalition has been arguing about the Building Energy Act for months. Are the wrong issues debated in Berlin?It is possible. Above all, the debates are taking too long. In the major restructuring, companies need planning certainty now, not in two or four years. Yes, the federal government has done a good […]
More than a year ago, the EU Parliament proposed reforms to European electoral law, and the member states have so far given one reaction – silence. Next Tuesday, the European ministers will discuss the proposals. In preparation, the Swedish presidency sent out a questionnaire a few weeks ago, to which almost all governments responded. However, […]
There is movement in the succession debate surrounding Werner Hoyer, the outgoing president of the European Investment Bank (EIB). According to information obtained by Table.Media, the Danish government has put EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager in the race for the top post at the head of the EU’s house bank. Vestager has been traded as a […]
“We live in a completely different world than in 2020, when the MFF was negotiated”, said Ursula von der Leyen. Measured against this, the increase in the EU’s multi-year financial framework proposed by the Commission is “limited to the absolute must”.Some member states see things differently. They are expected to contribute €66 billion by the […]
China is (once again) moving to the center of political discussions today. The seventh German-Chinese government consultations are taking place in Berlin, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Premier Li Qiang as well as numerous ministers. In Brussels, the EU Commission is simultaneously presenting its strategy paper on economic security. Although the strategy does not explicitly […]
Ursula von der Leyen announced it last September, now, on Wednesday, the Commission will present its plans for the European Sovereignty Fund. In its financial dimension, the fund will not be an answer to the Inflation Reduction Act but will provide investors with orientation in the thicket of different EU programs: as a central contact […]
The German government is devoting a separate chapter to Europe in its national security strategy. However, the formulated positions hold few surprises – and are unlikely to please the EU partners in every respect.For example, the coalition government announced it will work to harmonize military capability requirements with its allies and focus primarily on European […]
On Friday, the finance ministers will meet in Luxembourg to discuss the reform of the EU debt rules. Or rather: to present their familiar positions to each other. The negotiations are making only slow progress. The experts in the Council working group are working intensively through the Commission’s reform proposals since the end of April […]
The EU ambassadors of the member states will make a new attempt today, Wednesday, to agree on the 11th sanctions package against Russia. Diplomats were cautiously optimistic in advance that an agreement could be reached. Germany and France were on track to accept the EU Commission’s proposal for an anti-circumvention mechanism, they said. However, an […]
Brazil’s President Lula da Silva has criticized European demands for an additional declaration to the EU-Mercosur trade agreement. “The premise between strategic partners should be mutual trust, not distrust or punishment“, he said after a meeting with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brasilia. The EU’s desired instrument entails new obligations for his country, […]