The EU demands far-reaching concessions from Washington in the dispute over the US Inflation Reduction Act. EVs, batteries and sustainable energy equipment from the EU sold in the US must be treated the same as those from Canada and Mexico, Czech Economy Minister Jozef Síkela said Monday after the informal EU Trade Council in Prague.The […]
Germany and France rarely see eye to eye, at least not right away. The two most important EU states have diverging interests, and reconciling them has not always been possible in the past. Rarely, however, have the efforts failed as much as they did last week.The postponement of the Franco-German Council of Ministers, scheduled originally […]
Should the EU launch a new crisis program to mitigate the effects of high energy prices in member states? So far, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz opposes corresponding demands from France, Italy and other EU countries. He has now received support from an influential MEP from Portugal.“We have many billions that we have already allocated and […]
The Franco-German Council of Ministers planned for next Wednesday in Paris has been canceled. Together with the French side, it was decided to move the meeting to January, said government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit on Wednesday. As a reason for the postponement, he named, in addition to scheduling problems of some ministers, continuing need for coordination […]
The German government has come under fire for providing up to €200 billion for its energy relief package. In the Covid pandemic, Germany also found itself pilloried in the EU for lavish aid. New figures from the EU Commission have now added some facts to the debate.Criticism was mainly ignited by the lavish framework of […]
The EU Commission is postponing its proposal for a right to repair until next year. The draft on the “sustainable consumption of goods” was actually to be presented at the end of November as part of the second package on the circular economy. Following a negative opinion from the internal Regulatory Scrutiny Board, the date […]
The gas price brake in Germany is already taking shape. Now the industry is calling for equally ambitious action against the rise in electricity prices. Following the gas commission’s proposals, the electricity price brake must also come quickly and follow similar lines, Wolfgang Weber, CEO of the German Electrical and Digital Manufacturers’ Association (ZVEI), told […]
There is movement in the talks about a billion-euro investment by chip manufacturer TSMC in Germany. The German magazine Capital reports that a delegation from Taiwan will travel to Dresden before the end of October to gather information about the location. Table.Media already reported last month about a possible TSMC factory in Dresden.However, TSMC is […]
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has spoken out in favor of ratifying free trade agreements through the European Parliament and Council alone. “We have to think about the question of whether EU only is more fitting for such trade agreements,” he said at the engineering summit in Berlin. It was a “somewhat complicated idea” that the […]
Germany and France want to negotiate a joint push to reform the EU at the bilateral Council of Ministers on Oct. 26. At the high-level meeting in Rouen, the two governments would have to say “whether they have the courage to jointly take Europe a step forward,” Economy State Secretary Sven Giegold said on Monday. […]