The European Parliament is set to grow, albeit only slightly. Yesterday, the MEPs in Strasbourg decided that there should be eleven additional seats after the European elections: 716 instead of 705. With this decision, the Parliament is responding to the demographic changes that have occurred since the 2019 elections. Spain and the Netherlands are set […]
On Friday, the finance ministers will meet in Luxembourg to discuss the reform of the EU debt rules. Or rather: to present their familiar positions to each other. The negotiations are making only slow progress. The experts in the Council working group are working intensively through the Commission’s reform proposals since the end of April […]
It’s an understatement to say that energy, climate and the environment dominate the political agenda in Europe. Thursday’s ENVI Committee vote on the Nature Restoration Act should be on the radar of just about everyone in the Brussels bubble. But another, equally politically explosive appointment takes place today, Wednesday: the meeting of Deputy Permanent Representatives […]
Last Friday, the EU Commission presented its draft for the European Sustainability Reporting Standards. The delegated act is intended to supplement the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) adopted last year. It is now open for public consultation until July 7.The draft has drawn strong criticism from think tanks and NGOs: the Commission has weakened the […]
The end of the legislative period is approaching and thus the pressure to reach an agreement on many dossiers is increasing. Till Hoppe asked around in the EU Parliament which legislative projects have priority. Read more in today’s news section.Today is also crunch time in the Council of Labor Ministers (EPSCO) regarding the Platform Work […]
It “will be difficult if we pass on the problems to the other partners“, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said yesterday, her guest Olaf Scholz at her side. This may be true, but that is exactly how European asylum policy has worked so far. The Mediterranean countries prefer to wave new arrivals northward, Germany, Austria […]
In the near future, the EU Commission will report on how the member states are implementing the recommendations for securing 5G mobile networks. Thierry Breton is already anticipating the result: not enough. Virtually all member states had indeed transposed the principles from the toolbox adopted in 2020 into national law, said the Internal Market Commissioner. […]
Many videos from the blown-up dam of the Kakhovka reservoir in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday morning showed large amounts of water flowing away unhindered. A few hours after the explosion, the dam and hydroelectric power plant were swallowed up by the floodwaters of the dammed Dnieper River. In all likelihood, the Russian army blew up […]
Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron have not really warmed to each other so far. On the one hand, the sober chancellor; on the other, the president, who sometimes tends toward the theatrical. But what is not yet, can still become: On Tuesday evening, Scholz is inviting his guest to dinner in Potsdam.In any case, they […]
The corruption scandal in the European Parliament involving bribes from Qatar and Morocco has now been known for six months. Eva Kaili has meanwhile got rid of her ankle bracelet, is waiting for her trial and wants to return to Parliament. It has also been six months since the EU institutions promised to tighten controls […]