Victor Warhem of the Centre de Politique Européenne in Paris analyses Republican candidate Valérie Pécresse's prospects of winning the upcoming presidential elections.
By Timo Landenberger
Clearer foreign policy vis-à-vis autocracies, visions for Europe: The traffic light coalition has set itself a number of goals. But the resistance to the laudable new course is considerable, analyses Jana Puglierin of the European Council on Foreign Relations. The new government must therefore seize opportunities.
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The digital product passport is intended to bundle environmentally relevant information such as materials or repairability of a product in a digital system. If the capital goods industry is ignored in its conception, bureaucratic chaos could follow, especially for smaller and medium-sized companies, fears VDMA President Karl Haeusgen.
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The Green Deal is the most effective solution to energy poverty, writes Alberto Vela of the EEB. The combination of energy efficiency, renewables and efficient building renovation has the greatest potential to decarbonise the EU economy and protect citizens from volatile prices.
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The long-time CDU MEP has known Angela Merkel since the spring of 1990 and advised the future German Chancellor on European policy. He explains from his own experience where her authority in the circle of heads of state and government came from – but also how it began to crumble.
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The Council position on the Digital Services Act is in place and the negotiations in the European Parliament are also making decisive progress. However, consumers must be better protected by the laws governing online trade, demands Christian Köhler, CEO of the Markenverband.
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The change of government is an opportunity to initiate a digital awakening in the energy sector, writes Bitkom Executive Committee member Matthias Hartmann. Available technologies could achieve almost a third of the necessary CO savings in the building sector.
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Negotiations for Germany's ‘traffic light’-coalition government have produced an accelerated coal phaseout by 2030. The pressure to kick coal mounts ever higher. Could Germany represent a phaseout fable when it comes to a post-coal Europe?
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What did the COP26 world climate conference in Glasgow really achieve? Xavier Vives is a Professor of Economics and Finance at the IESE Business School in Barcelona. For him, it is not the wording of the final declaration that is key – but the question of what the financial sector is prepared to make of it.
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In August 1991, the then foreign ministers of Germany, France, and Poland launched the Weimar Triangle. It was supposed to signify the final overcoming of historical hostilities and advance Poland's integration into the Western community. But after promising first years, there is little reason to celebrate the anniversary, writes David Gregosz, head of the KAS office in Warsaw. However, civil society cooperation is a source of hope.
By Timo Landenberger
