Luxembourg is said to mean very well for its resident companies. Not only in terms of taxation, which got the country into trouble with the EU’s competition watchdogs, as in the Amazon case. But also in terms of the regulation that affects the companies. Legal texts like the Digital Markets Act or the Digital Services […]
Yesterday was not a good day for Ursula von der Leyen. Not only because “Bild” denounced the climate-damaging short trips of the Commission President by charter jet (for example from Vienna to Bratislava, as The Telegraph, reported on Tuesday). What’s more: FDP MEP Moritz Körner spoke out in an extremely critical article in Focus and […]
Since August, we have been reporting for you in German on the political processes in Europe and the discourses in Germany relevant to European policy. As of today, we also offer our news and analyses in English. Many observers outside Germany are wondering how the most important EU member state will position itself in Europe […]
Influential business associations call for the dismantling of the remaining US tariffs on steel and aluminum exports following the EU’s trade deal with the US. While the weekend agreement was a positive signal, Wolfgang Niedermark, a member of the executive board at industry association BDI, said on Monday. “Now, further steps must follow.”In a joint […]
When viewed from a distance, details are known to become blurred. CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, at least, announced on Twitter that he was now reporting from “Edinburgh in Scotland where 20,000 world leaders and delegates have gathered for the COP26 Climate Summit.” Edinburgh Castle provided the lush backdrop in the background of the photo. As […]
Three days before the start of the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, China has become the thirteenth of just over 190 countries to submit its revised climate targets to the United Nations – the so-called Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). China’s NDCs consist of the previously announced 30/60 targets: Peak greenhouse gas emissions before […]
It is one of Thierry Breton’s central concerns: at the beginning of his term of office, the Internal Market Commissioner personally initiated a data strategy. Only if access to the most important raw material is guaranteed, according to his analysis, can Europe’s digital economy prosper.While the Data Governance Act is intended to regulate the infrastructure […]
A ban on personalized advertising is being intensively discussed in the European Parliament – but this is aimed at the core of Facebook’s business model. The NGO Lobbycontrol now criticizes that the US company has deliberately launched an advertising campaign to influence this debate.As part of the “Facebook makes it happen” campaign, advertisements worth €2.5 […]
Margrethe Vestager spent the second day of her visit to Berlin yesterday in a deep blue dress. The commissioner said she wants to ensure that the important European issues are addressed in the coalition negotiations and it might help “if you look a bit like Europe.” She also said she felt very honored to have […]
In the negotiations around the Digital Markets Act, representatives of the political groups in the Internal Market Committee converged on Tuesday. “It was a good meeting, we made progress,” the Socialists’ shadow rapporteur Evelyne Gebhardt told Europe.Table. EPP rapporteur Andreas Schwab (CDU) added: “We are making good progress.”On the question of interoperability, they had approached […]