Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum imports as well as the threatened levies on cars, chips and pharmaceuticals are causing great concern not only outside the USA. There is also resistance within the country itself, as someone else could end up benefiting. Europe, for example.
By Redaktion Table
According to a Columbia University paper, intervention by the EU Commission would currently be superfluous for increased imports of American liquefied natural gas. According to the paper, market-related reasons are leading to more American LNG imports to Europe anyway.
By Manuel Berkel
The InvestEU financial instrument is at the heart of the first omnibus that the Commission intends to propose on Wednesday. It wants to stimulate investments totaling 50 billion euros by 2027. Companies applying for EU funding are to be relieved of bureaucratic costs.
By Markus Grabitz
Are workers being forgotten in the Clean Industrial Deal? Trade unions and the Greens in the European Parliament fear so. The current draft mainly contains requests for testing.
By Alina Leimbach
The Committee on Industry, Research and Energy adopts an own-initiative report on the upcoming tenth research framework program (FP10). MEPs call for more money to continue funding cutting-edge research.
By Corinna Visser
The Draghi report was used by the participants in the working session on value chains and batteries to describe the problems in the automotive industry. Associations and suppliers called for significant changes to EU regulation during the meeting with Commission Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné.
By Markus Grabitz
Leading FDP politicians are in favor of deepening relations with the UK in light of Donald Trump's policies. At the end of the rapprochement, the United Kingdom could also return to the EU.
By Till Hoppe
A new report by the Jacques Delors Centre shows that in recent years, only a small proportion of state aid has flowed into strategically important sectors of the future. With the Clean Industrial Deal, the EU must dare to set priorities, demands the Berlin think tank.
By Marc Winkelmann
With the Waste Framework Directive, the member states and the EU Parliament have agreed to reduce food waste by ten percent. Per capita waste from retail and households is to be reduced by 30 percent. Textile manufacturers are to be held more accountable.
By Leonie Düngefeld
A new "vision paper" is to set the direction for EU agricultural and food policy over the next five years. There are hardly any concrete announcements, but it is clear that the Commission is turning away from the Farm to Fork Strategy's approach of comprehensively regulating environmental protection and healthy nutrition.
By Julia Dahm
