How hypocritical is European criticism of the World Cup in Qatar? Is FIFA president Gianni Infantino even right when he accuses the critics of hypocrisy?Sport and politics have long had a complicated relationship. That sporting events are apolitical has been an outright lie since ancient times. There are many examples in modern sports history – […]
“It is important that we have someone with experience who will do everything to implement the European mandate,” Luxembourg’s Energy Minister Claude Turmes (Greens) said last year. At issue was the reform of the Energy Charter Treaty and the move of Turmes’ energy advisor Guy Lentz to head the ECT. The latter took over as […]
Since the outbreak of the energy crisis, a special kind of political theater has been taking place in Brussels: the sham rapprochements between the Council and the Commission. This could be observed once again at the EU Council meeting this early Friday morning. On the one hand, there are the pseudo work orders from the […]
“The power of football is the power of the people of Europe,” Commission Vice-President Margaritis Schinas courted UEFA boss Aleksander Čeferin yesterday. On Thursday, both signed a new agreement on cooperation to promote the values and principles of the European Sport Model.It is already the third of its kind and is intended to support “climate […]
Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose power of words colleagues sometimes compare to a talking file folder, has done it again: “That’s a double whammy!” he said yesterday when presenting the government’s plans to loosen 200 billion euros for the gas price brake by spring 2024 via a slightly shadowed budget.That’s how political Berlin knows him: he’d […]
The reservists in Russia do not feel much like going to war. Those who were quick and had money left by plane in the past few days. Others drove to the border with Finland after the partial mobilization was decreed by Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin and were stuck in traffic jams for hours. How lucky […]
Everyone is talking about supply chains, everyone is talking about China. And still, the EU Commission too often knows too little about key supply chains. This is something that even Commissioner Stella Kyriakides has now had to own up to: In response to a question from an Italian ID deputy, she had to admit that […]
Europe’s gas storage facilities are filling up faster than expected, that is the good news. According to the latest data, reserves in the EU are already at 80 percent capacity, a mark that was not supposed to be reached for another two months. The levels in Germany are even slightly higher, as Robert Habeck proudly […]
Shortly ahead of the candidate status summit, the European Parliament publishes the results of the Eurobarometer spring survey. And, lo and behold: Rarely have there been so many good Europeans. Almost two-thirds of EU citizens surveyed have a favorable view of the EU. Europe as a place for which people long, as a place of […]
Even Thierry Breton had to smile: He wanted to discuss the EU Chips Act and other initiatives due to which the EU is to become the digital world market leader with the ITRE industry committee – digitally connected in keeping with the times. It was about spending billions, about research funding, about cutting-edge technology. But […]