During the time around the birth of their children, female parliamentarians should be given the right to continue to participate in the plenary session through a proxy. Parliament President Roberta Metsola emphasized that Europe needs more women in politics.
By Marion Bergermann
The Danish Council Presidency has removed the obligations for active detection from the draft CSA Regulation. Germany now wants to agree to this. Digital expert Breyer warns against chat control through the back door.
By Corinna Visser
In new proceedings, the Commission is targeting Google's “site reputation abuse policy.” According to Google, this is intended to prevent users from seeing misleading, low-quality content and being exposed to fraud attempts.
By Corinna Visser
The Digital Omnibus offers a great opportunity – if it focuses consistently on simplification, transparency and practicality. Europe’s digital future needs reliability, a sense of proportion and the courage to implement good rules effectively.
By Oliver Süme
With the votes of the parties to its right, the EPP managed to push through an ambitious position for the trilogue on the sustainability omnibus. The pro-European parties voted as one on the 2040 climate target.
By Markus Grabitz and Lukas Knigge
The EU finance ministers agreed in Brussels to abolish the duty-free limit of EUR 150. A technical solution for introducing a fee on low-value parcels is to be provided as early as 2026.
By János Allenbach-Ammann
Lena Schilling negotiated the EU climate target as shadow rapporteur for the Greens. Two years ago she was still shaping the Austrian climate movement, today she is the youngest MEP – and part of the EU delegation at COP30.
By Lukas Bayer
Climate-friendly e-fuels will continue to be taxed at the same level as petrol. The agreement on the Energy Tax Directive sought by the Council Presidency was removed from the agenda of the meeting of finance ministers on Wednesday.
By Manuel Berkel
Some member states had called for the anti-deforestation directive to be postponed for another year. The Danish Council Presidency has now submitted a proposal to this effect.
By Lukas Knigge
The election in the Netherlands was not such a resounding a defeat for the far right as the media reported. Other extreme right-wing parties made gains, both there and in the EU Parliament.
By Manuel Müller
