The world’s largest chip contract manufacturer TSMC currently does not want to invest in a factory in Germany or Europe. There are no “concrete plans,” Chairman Mark Liu said yesterday at the company’s annual general meeting in Taipei. The company is still busy assessing the situation.The Taiwanese company has been in talks behind the scenes […]
The world’s largest chip contract manufacturer TSMC currently does not want to invest in a factory in Germany or Europe. There are no “concrete plans,” Chairman Mark Liu said yesterday at the company’s annual general meeting in Taipei. The company is still busy assessing the situation.The Taiwanese company has been in talks behind the scenes […]
The negotiators of the EU institutions have agreed to mandate uniform interfaces for charging smartphones and numerous other electrical devices from mid-2024. According to the trilogue result, manufacturers of devices from 15 categories will have to install USB-C as the standard charging port in the EU. Sharp criticism has come from the industry.This regulation applies, […]
EU states waive sanctions against Patriarch Kirill for the time being. Under pressure from Hungary, EU ambassadors took the head of the Russian Orthodox Church off the list to pave the way for the sixth sanctions package against Moscow, diplomats confirmed. The package, including a partial oil embargo, is now due to come into force […]
Change in the Permanent Representation of Germany to the EU: the previous Vice Ambassador Susanne Szech-Koundouros will return to Berlin in the summer and will be succeeded by Helen Winter, according to Europe.Table. The Ministerialdirigentin currently still works in the Federal Chancellery, as a group leader for national and international economic policy. She is regarded […]
Minister of State, Hungary in particular held up the oil embargo against Russia for weeks. How capable is the EU of acting in this conflict?The case shows that the EU is capable of finding compromises despite diverging interests among member states. Yet, we are too slow and the lowest common denominator agreements are rarely optimal. […]
The traffic light coalition is massively increasing funding for the semiconductor industry in Germany. The Bundestag’s budget committee approved funds of €17.23 billion for microelectronics projects in the clean-up session at the end of last week, as a spokeswoman for the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Change (BMWK) confirmed in response to an […]
The media response was tremendous when the Commission presented its REPowerEU package last Wednesday. On the other hand, the consultations for several important legal acts began on Friday without much fuss. One of these is the financing of the €300 billion project, including the controversial auctioning of CO2 certificates from the market stability reserve.After months […]
Citizens and companies in Poland and Croatia have little confidence in the independence of the judiciary. In the EU Commission’s new Justice Scoreboard, the two countries perform worst of all member states on this point. In Poland, only just under 20 percent of the companies surveyed said they considered the courts and judges to be […]
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz takes a skeptical view of the discussion on amending the European treaties. “If there’s one thing we don’t need at this time, it’s controversial, time- and energy-consuming navel-gazing on institutional issues,” he said in his government statement to the Bundestag. If the matter required it, it was possible to talk about […]