The manufacturer with the star sells more than a third of its cars in China. One-fifth of the shares are in Chinese hands. There is repeated speculation about a takeover.
By Markus Grabitz
The market for sustainable investments is growing rapidly, but it needs a better framework, says Silke Stremlau. She has been chair of the German government's Sustainable Finance Advisory Council since this summer. She believes the EU taxonomy is the right approach – but it still has fundamental flaws, as she explains in an interview with Leonie Düngefeld.
By Leonie Düngefeld
Forest fires are becoming an ever greater challenge and are no longer a rarity – even in Central Europe. Many countries are overwhelmed and EU civil protection reaches its limits. What is the best way to counter the growing threat?
By Timo Landenberger
Who pays for the Internet? The EU Commission is currently looking into whether changes need to be made to the current model: Should particularly large providers of Internet services bear a larger share and pay more for the data traffic for which they are jointly responsible, in other words, a kind of content toll? This is controversial – and the EU Commission is causing uncertainty.
By Falk Steiner
In a recently published paper, scientists warn against expecting too much from Open RAN: As things stand, this initiative will not reduce dependence on China in mobile communications technology.
By Falk Steiner
The Baltic exit from China's Cooperation Initiative in Eastern and Central Europe became a reality last week. Latvia and Estonia followed Lithuania and announced their withdrawal from the 16+1 format. Is this the beginning of the end for the remaining 14+1 format?
By Amelie Richter
The German government plans to use energy-saving measures to secure the heat supply in the coming winter. So far, it has focused primarily on gas storage, but this is likely insufficient. An international comparison shows that others are already making much faster progress.
By Lukas Knigge
Spain has one-third of the import capacity for LNG in the EU. The government wants to help avert the threat of supply bottlenecks in Germany, but so far it lacks the pipelines to do so. New pipelines are supposed to change that.
By Isabel Cuesta Camacho
Decisions on real estate for the EU Parliament are due in the fall: At the Brussels office, the parliament building is to be renovated; at the Strasbourg office, the purchase of a building in the immediate vicinity of the plenary hall is on the table.
By Markus Grabitz
How effective are the sanctions imposed by the EU and Western countries on the Russian Federation to force the country to leave Ukraine? Everyone involved was aware from the outset that these can never be 100% effective – but there are particularly glaring loopholes when it comes to hardware and software.
By Falk Steiner
