The situation on the Russian-Ukrainian border continues to escalate. After the first meeting in two years of the NATO-Russia Council in Brussels failed on Wednesday, the situation threatens to escalate. The Kremlin is sticking to its demand that NATO deny Ukraine’s membership, which the West firmly rejects. Meanwhile, the tone on both sides is getting […]
The Digital Services Act is still being negotiated, but the timetable is tight; the “Basic Law for the Internet” is to come into force very soon. That’s when it’s time to start looking at setting up the regulatory authority that will be responsible for enforcing the DSA at the national level. But the question of […]
Given the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the new Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, is traveling on to Moscow today after yesterday’s visit to Kiev. Against the backdrop of the Russian threat and the resulting ongoing sanctions debate, she expects a difficult conversation with her counterpart Sergey Lavrov there, as Falk Steiner points out in the news.The Nord Stream […]
On Monday, Annalena Baerbock will travel to Kiev, and in the evening, she will continue on to Moscow. The circumstances of the visit could scarcely be more difficult: The German foreign minister can hardly meet the demands of her Ukrainian hosts for arms deliveries and a halt to Nord Stream 2 – the former out […]
Yesterday, the European Parliament adopted its negotiating position on the Digital Services Act by a large majority vote. This means that a number of special regulations have once again been added to the basic framework of the DSA. Some changes are bold, writes Falk Steiner in his analysis. He asks consumer protection advocates and industry […]
It’s been five years since Emmanuel Macron’s famous Sorbonne speech, and now the French president has once again used the big EU stage to make his European policy ambitions clear. At the start of France’s EU Council Presidency, he spoke in favor of a sovereign Europe and a “common security order” in the European Parliament […]
Roberta Metsola is the new President of the European Parliament. The European People’s Party’s conservative group’s candidate was elected to the top office yesterday with a clear majority. The Maltese presented herself in campaign clips, among other things, as a champion of LGBT rights, same-sex marriage, and tolerance for different lifestyles in the EU, but […]
Tensions between the West and Russia continue to rise. NATO is on alert, said Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, and announced that allied troops’ presence in Eastern Europe will be increased. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a billion-dollar aid package for Ukraine. The EU again showed its determination to respond quickly with sanctions […]
The German government has reiterated its opposition to nuclear power with the German statement on EU taxonomy. Nuclear power is risky and expensive, it said. At the same time, Berlin is calling for less stringent criteria for the use of natural gas as a transition technology, for example in the blending quotas for hydrogen during […]
“Putting sensitive gas infrastructure in Germany in the hands of Gazprom was not a smart policy,” says Reinhard Bütikofer, foreign policy coordinator of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament, referring to skyrocketing energy prices and historically empty gas storage facilities. Germany and the EU want to position themselves better in the future. Timo Landenberger […]