Adrian Vázquez Lázara, Chair of the Legal Affairs Committee in the European Parliament, sees the conclusion of a Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework (TADPF) as a prerequisite for further progress on EU-US digital issues. “The most important issue we need to solve before we move forward is data protection,” he told Europe.Table. A successor to the […]
Two days after the victory of the right-wing alliance in Italy’s parliamentary elections, the EU Commission has approved a further tranche from the Next Generation EU recovery program for the country. The authority was in favor of releasing €21 billion from the pot. The member states now have the final say.The transfer rewards the efforts […]
The CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag is against more leeway in EU fiscal rules. It is necessary to “slim down the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) to a few basic rules and to make the procedures for enforcing the rules more effective than before, without watering down the European fiscal rules,” according to a […]
The EU has significantly upgraded its trade policy in recent years. Brand new in its arsenal: an instrument against competition-distorting subsidies, aimed primarily at Chinese state-owned enterprises; and the International Procurement Instrument (IPI), with the help of which the EU wants to open up public tenders in other countries to European companies. Both regulations were […]
Poland continues to reject a move away from the unanimity principle in EU foreign policy. The Polish government views Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s proposal to that effect “very skeptically,” Polish European Affairs Minister Konrad Szymański said Friday after a meeting with his counterparts from Germany and France, Anna Lührmann and Laurence Boone. “Unanimity gives legitimacy to […]
Ms. Brantner, at the start of their time in office, the Greens announced a turning point for Germany’s China policy. What specifically are you doing differently?Franziska Brantner: First, we need to analyze exactly what has changed on the Chinese side in recent years. We need an accurate picture of the country’s political and economic development […]
EU Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, has expressed his support for financing a new EU Sovereignty Fund through debt. Unconventional ideas are needed in the face of numerous challenges and little room for maneuver in the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework, Breton wrote in a blog post. “In this respect, I believe that we […]
The #SOTEU hashtag will be trending on Twitter today, at least in the EU bubble. In her State of the (European) Union address, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will present her agenda for the coming months, dressed up in euphonious, sometimes pathetic words. We gave you a taste of her speech in the European […]
Mr. Hofreiter, your party colleague Robert Habeck has announced that the remaining nuclear power plants will be put in reserve. How can such a decision be communicated to European neighbors in the midst of an electricity crisis?Hofreiter: Anyone who knows their way around the electricity market will not find this lacking in solidarity. The electricity […]
Last Tuesday, Ukrainian units broke through Russian defense lines for the first time near Balakliia and they rapidly conquered large parts of the Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine over the weekend. Russian forces are retreating in an unsorted fashion from key logistics hubs such as Izium, leaving masses of war materiel behind. Meanwhile, the Kremlin […]