The findings are sobering: In less than twenty years, humanity will have emitted such an amount of greenhouse gas that global warming will reach the 1.5-degree mark. There is hardly any way around this, as the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change points out. The task now is to prevent (even) worse […]
The EU Commission is currently revising chemicals legislation and has launched a public consultation. This concerns the regulation of the classification, labeling and packaging of chemical substances and mixtures (“CLP Regulation“). Stakeholders have until November 15 to submit their comments. The CLP Regulation implements the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS) […]
There is “a lot of data protection on paper” in Europe, says Max Schrems, but “very little on mobile.” The rules of the GDPR are blithely ignored by digital companies, criticizes the Austrian activist, who has already won two spectacular cases before the European Court of Justice. They have little to fear from the supervisory […]
As part of their immediate climate protection program, the Greens want to establish a “climate protection ministry“ after the Bundestag elections on September 26, equipped with the right to veto legislative proposals from other departments. Constitutionally, the plan is difficult to implement, and criticism has come from the SPD and CDU, among others. However, the […]
Let’s go: From now on, we will inform you about the great transformation of Europe. I would like to welcome you to the Europe.Table.The two megatrends of climate protection and digitization, which have been translated into regulation, will affect almost all areas of politics, business and society. And they will leave their mark on many […]
Are Amazon, Google and Microsoft infiltrating the European Gaia-X cloud project? The involvement of the US hyper scalers in the flagship project is causing heated discussions among members. What is clear by now: In their internal operations, they are doing without the US offerings.The umbrella company Gaia-X AISBL has chosen neither Microsoft’s 365 nor Google’s […]
How much competition is there in a given market? The answer depends on how tightly you draw its boundaries. In the view of the governments in Paris and Berlin, the EU Commission drew the lines too tightly when examining the planned rail merger between Siemens and Alstom – and prohibited the deal despite competition from […]
The US government’s insistence had an effect: The EU Commission is postponing its plans for a European digital tax until further notice. The authority’s main priority is to work on the global minimum tax for companies, to be completed by October within the framework of the OECD, a spokesman said. “Therefore, we have decided to […]
Welcome to the Europe.Table. You are reading the advance edition of the new professional briefing, aiming to provide you with up-to-date, comprehensive and reliable information on European regulatory projects on a daily basis.Europe is facing a profound transformation as a result of the two megatrends of our time: climate change and digitization. Commission President Ursula […]