Three votes of no confidence in Ursula von der Leyen within three months. Influential parliamentarians want to raise the hurdles for requesting the vote.
By Markus Grabitz
The Commission is awarding funds for projects to promote innovation in the areas of digitalization of companies, digital skills, health, the public sector and the automotive industry. The first projects are online.
By Corinna Visser
By Michael Bröcker and Malte Kreutzfeldt
The challenge is not only to balance regulation with innovation and market access in a way that also empowers SMEs. It also lies in not believing that Europe can simply sit out this phase of AI development and wait for the next generation.
By Thorsten Jelinek
The Commission wants to outlaw filter cigarettes internationally. The industry believes that the EU could later use the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control to incorporate the measures into EU law in the next Tobacco Products Directive (TPD).
By Markus Grabitz
Next week, the Legal Affairs Committee in the EU Parliament will vote on the compromise reached on Wednesday evening on the sustainability omnibus. The trialogue negotiations will then begin.
By Lukas Knigge
Africa will once again play a central role at the second Global Gateway Forum in Brussels, which runs until Friday. Every second euro to be spent as part of the initiative will go to the continent.
By Arne Schütte
The United States Treasury Department has taken sanctions against the Serbian oil company NIS, which is majority-owned by Gazprom, seriously. The punitive measure could have massive consequences for Serbia, but the Croatian oil pipeline operator JANAF is also affected.
By Frank Stier and Stephan Israel
In a letter to the President of the European Council, EIB President Nadia Calviño pledges financial support to member states for the development of infrastructure to defend against drones.
By János Allenbach-Ammann
On Thursday, the European Parliament passed the trialogue result on the reform of European works councils with a large majority. There were still attempts to overturn the proposal right up to the end.
By Alina Leimbach
