Mario Draghi is in favor. Will Emmanuel Macron also support a revision of the EU treaties, with the aim of burying the unanimity rule in particular? We will get the answer – perhaps – on May 9 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, where the French president will speak at the closing ceremony of the […]
With his recent trip abroad to the Western Balkans and EU accession candidate Moldova, German Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir (Greens) has shown colors: Economic and political development usually go hand in hand – cooperation in the agricultural and food sector across national borders is worthwhile for all of us.The ministerial trip took place – once […]
Between rising hunger and the prospect of still more supply shortages, dark clouds are hovering over the global food system. Not only has the war in Ukraine limited access to, and raised prices for, food and fertilizer, but extreme weather events are disrupting production, and economic downturns have diminished people’s ability to afford adequate and nutritious diets. Climate change […]
The similarities are obvious. In 2022, like in the 1970s, an energy-price shock has led to a sustained increase in the prices of many other goods. The so-called core inflation rate, which strips out volatile energy and food prices, is now approaching 6 percent in the United States and 4 percent in the eurozone. And […]
The fact that Meta and Alphabet succeeded in overturning the obligation to report criminal content from the Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG) is a setback for lawmakers, even if central aspects in the Digital Services Act will hopefully still be implemented at European level in the future. The decision of the Cologne Administrative Court shows once […]
Europe and the West have to watch helplessly as Russian President Vladimir Putin breaks the peace in Europe and overwhelms Ukraine with military force. War in the heart of Europe? Who could have imagined that just a few months ago?And before we hear the self-accusations again, especially in Germany, that “the West” has “overdone it […]
In his TV address on Monday evening, Vladimir Putin made it as clear as he did in his essay last summer: He does not accept the status quo that has prevailed since the Soviet Union dissolved itself as agreed by the Soviet republics. Accordingly, the international law principles of sovereignty and territorial identity have no […]
Many voices, in and out of the EU, are calling for a change of the Economic Governance of the EU. Among them, the European Fiscal Board (EFB) is pleading in favor of a modification of the fiscal rules of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), assessed to be too complex and poorly adapted to national […]
War represents a contest of wills, the German strategist Carl von Clausewitz argued some 200 years ago. On this point, the Ukrainians fiercely defending their homeland seem to have a distinct advantage over the invading Russian forces. But, to win a war, will must be supported by military means – and that requires industrial and […]
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