Editorial

Mark Rutte is a political survival artist. The right-wing liberal politician has been in power in the Netherlands for almost 13 years, and in a very fragmented party landscape. On Friday, the 56-year-old buried his fourth coalition. And yet he can hope for another term in office if he wants to.Today, the parliament in The […]

Work on the reforms to be implemented as a consequence of the Qatargate affair continues: The first round of negotiations on the Commission’s proposal for the interinstitutional ethics body is scheduled for today. All seven institutions are involved: the Commission, the Parliament, the European Council, the Council of the European Union, as well as the […]

This week, the time is finally set. The Commission wants to present a proposal for the coordinated EU and Euratom withdrawal from the Energy Charter. The College of EU Commissioners wants to decide by Friday in the written procedure. Rarely does so little information get through to us journalists. Even the deputies of the member […]

It would be the epitome of speed: Negotiations in Parliament on the electricity market reform could be over as early as tomorrow – almost two weeks before the vote in the Industry Committee on July 19. At least that’s what the Greens hope. But the question is whether the race beyond the fast lane won’t […]

The German government had actually written “more transparency at the EU level” into its coalition agreement. But Berlin is being secretive about two current examples. Table.Media wanted to know how far the German government would like to relax the TCTF aid framework, i.e. the financial underpinning of the Net-Zero Industry Act. But after our request […]

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 […]

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 […]

The EU Commission will present the second part of its Green Deal nature protection package this week. Planned are a new soil health law, a regulation on plants produced with new genomic techniques, the revision of the EU Waste Framework Directive with regard to food and textile waste, and the revision of legislation on seeds.The […]

On Sunday, a French president will make a state visit to Germany for the first time in 23 years. Of course, Emmanuel Macron and his predecessors, including Jacques Chirac, have visited Germany on various occasions. However, those were working visits, official visits or visits scheduled for specific events. A state visit is different in terms […]

The Ukraine war, migration and China – foreign policy dominates the EU summit starting today. Remarkably, diplomats have already largely finalized the wording of the final declaration in advance. Not so long ago, refugee and China policy were topics that the heads of state and government could argue about for nights on end.But most member […]