European laws are subject to the principles of gender equality and non-discrimination. However, these principles are occasionally ignored when it comes to road safety, as crash test dummies are still only modeled on the male body. This has devastating consequences, as analyzed by Charlotte Wirth. The risk of injury after traffic accidents is sometimes significantly […]
One of the major contentious issues should actually disappear from the agenda today: The Council of Ministers will, in all likelihood, vote in favor of phasing out internal combustion engines by 2035 – including the FDP compromise on e-fuels. But there is skepticism among the industry and suppliers – mostly about the low binding nature […]
Should hydrogen from nuclear power be counted towards the renewables targets? That’s exactly what France and some other countries demanded. But yesterday, the energy ministers rejected this idea and removed the project from the general orientation of the gas market directive. In return, the Commission signaled a concession on another level regarding nuclear power. Read […]
In the night from Saturday to Sunday, the clocks were once again advanced to summer time. And once again, the question arises as to when the change between summer and winter time will end. In fact, the EU already announced in 2018 to abolish the seasonal time changes. Since then, the ball has been in […]
The discussions about phasing out the internal combustion engine are almost soap opera-like at the moment. Who has promised what to whom? Or did they? Yesterday, the EU heads of state and government were also occupied with this issue. Yet it was not on the agenda of the EU summit in Brussels. It was actually […]
When the European Council begins today, some power plays will have already been settled – those concerning the agenda. Some heads of state and government are eager to push issues such as trade and nuclear energy, or would prefer not to deal with them at all. Till Hoppe and Eric Bonse preview the most pressing […]
Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) and his party are not only causing a stir in Berlin at the moment but also in Brussels. Stefan Braun and Till Hoppe report on what the two camps within the party are all about.The clock is ticking: By the time of the EU summit on Thursday, the dispute […]
The foreign ministers of the EU states have agreed on a joint supply of ammunition to Ukraine. They want to provide one million artillery shells for defense against Russia over the next twelve months. The aim is also to end the imbalance between Russia and Ukraine: Russia fires between 20,000 and 60,000 artillery shells per […]
Europe is to become the leading location for climate-friendly technologies: By 2030, 40 percent of the annual use of net-zero technologies is to be covered by domestic production. That is the goal of the Net-Zero Industrial Act (NZIA), which the Commission has now presented. The legislation is the centerpiece of Europe’s response to the US […]