Not even the bad image of the traffic light government can affect him: Boris Pistorius enjoys enduring popularity in Germany; he has led the corresponding ranking of politicians for two years. “People like his straight-talking attitude,” explains Robert Alferink, chairman of the SPD in Pistorius’ home town of Osnabrück. After the election, the party once […]
Every Monday during the week when the European Parliament is in session, a fully occupied plane operated by the former state-owned airline LOT takes off from Warsaw for Strasbourg. Most of the seats are occupied by the country’s 53 MEPs, with a few journalists also flying in economy class. Two hours later, the plane takes […]
Business associations, as well as conservative and liberal politicians, usually complain that they are being restricted by EU law in the area of labor and social affairs. Too strict requirements, more bureaucracy, and so on – you know the drill. But now, of all things, an EU law is the focus of the social section […]
First the good news: Never before has interest in a Bundestag election abroad been as great as this time. And never before have so many Germans living abroad registered to vote. According to Federal Returning Officer Ruth Brand, 210,297 German citizens living abroad had registered on the electoral roll by Monday. That is a good […]
Hristo Stoickov is the most world-famous of the living Bulgarians. In the 1990s, he won the European Cup with FC Barcelona and was awarded the Ballon d’Or. Today, “Kamata”, as his friends call him, flickers into Bulgarian living rooms every evening from the television. As a friendly older gentleman, he strolls through a Kaufland store […]
Fearful, almost paralyzed like a deer in the headlights of the approaching cybertruck, the EU is currently looking across the Atlantic. Every statement made by Trump and the hollowing out of the US state apparatus by his doge is being followed with increasing panic.Of course, it is anything but ideal when the most important trading […]
Parliament’s slide to the right is also making itself felt in the ECON Committee. This year, as every year, the committee has once again drawn up a report on the European Central Bank’s annual report. The wind has shifted noticeably.In the last legislature, the reports were strongly influenced by Green and Social Democrat MEPs. They […]
This phrase, more a sigh than a genuine question, is familiar to almost everyone in Brussels. “Who do I call when I want to call Europe?”, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is said to have once said. It was a gentle reminder that the EU, along with its competences and distribution of power, […]
It sounded like an original idea. But it turned out to be ill-conceived and had the potential to be a logistical nightmare: the EU heads of state and government will not be meeting in a remote castle in Wallonia for their “retreat” on Monday next week as originally planned but in the middle of Brussels.But […]
Today’s dessert is hard to digest. You could also call it a rip-off. In any case, it’s about making a lot of quick money. Here are the facts:On Friday, Donald Trump created a meme coin called $TRUMP. On the first day, 200 million $TRUMP were available. Within three years, the volume is expected to grow […]