Have you noticed? We are now in the seventh week after the Bundestag elections. Since then, the SPD, the Greens, and the FDP held pre-exploratory talks. Then exploratory talks. And then started coalition negotiations.But almost nothing is known. Because the three parties have made their negotiators take a vow of absolute silence. If there is […]
Anyone who has made it past the first round of security checks at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow is greeted by a large poster: “Welcome to the UN Climate Change Conference UK 2021”. Yet, the United Kingdom is not the sole host of the diplomatic summit on climate protection. Or about empty promises and […]
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 […]
Green Week, that’s what it’s called now in Brussels. Not because of the upcoming climate conference, but because of the Catholic holiday of All Saints’ Day – or Toussaint in the Walloon part of Belgium – it’s a week of autumn holidays. This also determines the work schedule of the EU institutions: all activities of […]
Every six months, the press offices of the European Commission and the Council receive numerous enquiries from journalists asking whether there is any news on this one particular topic. Again, on Sunday, the time will be changed. At three o’clock in the night, the clock jumps back to two o’clock. The Federal Ministry of Economics […]