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Parliament votes in favor of platform work law

The Platform Work Directive can enter into force. Parliament voted in favor with a large majority. The law is intended to combat bogus self-employment – and establishes rules for AI in the workplace in the EU for the first time.

By Alina Leimbach

AfD wants to largely remove Krah from election campaign

AfD top candidate Maximilian Krah is to skip the European election campaign kick-off in Donaueschingen, but is otherwise allowed to stay. It had previously become known that the police had arrested an employee from Krah's Brussels office on suspicion of espionage.

By Franziska Klemenz

Commission investigates Chinese medical products procurement market

The EU Commission has launched a 9- to 14-month investigation into the public procurement market for medical products in China. This first-time deployment of the International Procurement Instrument (IPI) could lead to the disadvantage of Chinese medical products in the European procurement market.

By Marc Winkelmann