In a year’s time, the European Parliament will be newly elected, and the fierce disputes over the EU Commission’s environmental package show: The election campaign has already begun. Parliament is now discussing which of the around 200 current legislative projects should definitely be completed in this legislative period. According to information from Table.Media, the following […]
It “will be difficult if we pass on the problems to the other partners“, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said yesterday, her guest Olaf Scholz at her side. This may be true, but that is exactly how European asylum policy has worked so far. The Mediterranean countries prefer to wave new arrivals northward, Germany, Austria […]
Around two and a half years after the project was launched, the EU Commission approved billions in aid for the chip industry. The new IPCEI Microelectronics and Communication Technologies comprises 68 projects, which the 14 member states involved may fund with up to €8.1 billion. The companies are to invest an additional €13.7 billion as […]
In the near future, the EU Commission will report on how the member states are implementing the recommendations for securing 5G mobile networks. Thierry Breton is already anticipating the result: not enough. Virtually all member states had indeed transposed the principles from the toolbox adopted in 2020 into national law, said the Internal Market Commissioner. […]
The EU wants to seek closer relations with Latin American countries. The EU Commission and Foreign Affairs Commissioner Josep Borrell presented a strategy for this on Wednesday, which is essentially based on three pillars:The Europeans are attempting to re-strengthen relations with Latin American countries, which have traditionally been close but politically neglected in recent years. […]
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has clearly contradicted speculation that she could become the new NATO Secretary General. She is “certainly” not available for that, she said at the WDR Europe Forum. “My place is in Europe, that is quite certain”.Von der Leyen thus also fed widespread expectations in Brussels that she would […]
Many videos from the blown-up dam of the Kakhovka reservoir in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday morning showed large amounts of water flowing away unhindered. A few hours after the explosion, the dam and hydroelectric power plant were swallowed up by the floodwaters of the dammed Dnieper River. In all likelihood, the Russian army blew up […]
Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron have not really warmed to each other so far. On the one hand, the sober chancellor; on the other, the president, who sometimes tends toward the theatrical. But what is not yet, can still become: On Tuesday evening, Scholz is inviting his guest to dinner in Potsdam.In any case, they […]
The rapporteur of the Environment Committee, Tiemo Wölken, wants to exclude nuclear energy as well as biogas technologies from the support of the planned Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA). The SPD MEP presented his amendments to the EU Commission’s draft in committee yesterday. The ENVI, as a co-advisory committee, has only limited competencies in the legislative […]
The team around the new Budget Director General Stéphanie Riso, currently poring over the figures, is small. The group’s discussions are largely shielded, even within the EU Commission. As a result, few details have been leaked so far about the changes to the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) that the Commission intends to propose in just […]