The liberal Renew Group in the European Parliament wants to find a new chairperson by mid-next week. Following extensive discussions, the group’s extended leadership team, the so-called Bureau, agreed on this yesterday. The leadership post in the third-largest group became vacant a week ago because the previous chair, Stéphane Séjourné, was appointed French Foreign Minister.The […]
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Workplace – the Zuckerberg universe disappeared from the web yesterday, Monday, due to technical problems. What exactly was to blame, was not yet determined at the time of writing these lines. The only certain thing was that in the technical configuration of the domain name system (DNS), a kind of phone book […]
Russia’s economy is prospering despite Western sanctions, and victory on the battlefield over Ukraine is only a matter of time: this impression has become increasingly entrenched in Europe in recent weeks and months. From Ursula von der Leyen’s point of view, this is, above all, propaganda from Moscow, which the West should counter more publicly.The […]
Ambitious Social Democrats who want to lead their party family into the European elections on June 9 have until Wednesday to throw their hats into the ring. Shortly before the deadline, the field of candidates for the lead candidate is manageable: Only Labor Commissioner Nicolas Schmit has applied. The Luxembourger also no longer has to […]
Who will succeed Stéphane Séjourné? The promotion of the leader of the liberal Renew Group to French Foreign Minister has caught his colleagues in the European Parliament on the wrong foot. They now want to discuss the successor at today’s parliamentary group meeting in Strasbourg. The delegations already explored the options at the weekend.The French […]
On Jan. 24, the EU Commission is set to unveil a package of measures for economic security. However, the eagerly awaited element, the proposed law on so-called outbound investment screening, is expected to be missing. Instead, it is reported that it will remain a non-binding white paper in Brussels.In its June strategy paper, the Commission […]
They talk to each other, not about each other – and not about content. So far, the bilateral talks between the SPD, FDP and Greens fulfilled this promise. And the CDU, CSU and FDP also spoke to each other for the first time – but an important discussion is still pending. Falk Steiner analyzes the […]
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is currently on a trip to the Baltic states. In Lithuania yesterday, during his first visit abroad this year, he called for more weapons aid to defend against the bombings. “Air defense systems are at the top of the list of things we lack“, he said in Vilnius on Wednesday after a […]
When the new government gets to work, the climate measures must be implemented quickly – the first 100 days are crucial. That’s according to Matthias Buck, Director of European Energy Policy at the think tank Agora Energiewende. In an interview with Timo Landenberger, Buck talks about how he sees Germany’s role in European climate protection […]
The European Parliament is increasing the pressure on Viktor Orbán. In the first session of the year, a majority of MEPs in Strasbourg next week are likely to give the green light for Katarina Barley’s (SPD) report on fundamental rights in the EU. For the first time, the Parliament would call on the Council to […]