The leadership of the European People’s Party is calling for key elements of EU sustainability legislation to be postponed. “The implementation of the CSRD and CSDDD and related legislation, including the Taxonomy Regulation and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), should be suspended for at least two years,” reads the position paper, which was adopted […]
Nervousness is mounting ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday: those responsible in Brussels are assuming that the new US president will immediately announce higher tariffs, forcing the Europeans to react. However, the EU Commission, member states, and the European Parliament are in the dark as to what exactly Trump will announce, according to reports […]
On Friday and Saturday, CDU leader Friedrich Merz will welcome high-ranking visitors to the Konrad Adenauer House: nine Christian Democrat heads of state and government from the EU member states will travel to Berlin, including Greece’s Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Finland’s Petteri Orpo, Sweden’s Ulf Kristersson and Ireland’s Simon Harris. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen […]
The European Union is failing to tackle key tasks. This was the result of a representative Forsa survey commissioned by the European Movement Germany. According to the survey, 88 percent of respondents believe that the EU is failing to distribute asylum seekers evenly among the member states. 66 percent say that the EU is not […]
In Austria, the FPÖ has been given the chance to provide the Federal Chancellor for the first time. Federal President Alexander van der Bellen has instructed party leader Herbert Kickl to negotiate with the ÖVP on the formation of a new federal government. The new ÖVP chairman Christian Stocker had already clarified beforehand that he […]
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has canceled her external appointments for the first two weeks of January. According to a spokesperson, the 66-year-old is fighting severe pneumonia. The President is carrying out her official duties from Hanover and is in close daily contact with her team. “If all goes well, the President will be […]
Two days ago, Table.Briefings exclusively reported on a letter from the Federal Ministers of Economic Affairs, Labor, Justice, and Finance to the EU Commission. In it, they call on the EU Commission to postpone the application of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) for companies in the second and third wave by two years. The […]
What do the four centrist parties with a realistic government perspective have to say on EU issues? The differences are striking: The Greens devote a lot of space to Europe in their election manifesto, while the FDP limits itself to one page. The CDU/CSU wants “Europe only where Europe creates added value for all”. However, […]
The German government has submitted proposals to the EU Commission on how the sustainability reporting obligations for companies should be weakened. In the letter, which is exclusively available to Table.Briefings, they call for the CSRD Directive to be postponed by two years and for the group of addressees to be narrowed down. The paper was […]