Constitutional protection warns companies of Chinese dominance
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) has warned of the "full range of operations" with regards to espionage from China.
By Felix Lee
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) has warned of the "full range of operations" with regards to espionage from China.
By Felix Lee
BASF has appointed Jens Hildebrandt, the current head of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AHK), as is new head of Government Relations Greater China. He succeeds Jörg Wuttke, a long-standing and distinguished China expert, who is leaving for Washington in the summer.
By Amelie Richter
The EU Parliament has given final approval to the trilogue results on the supply chain law. The de facto ban on recycled plastic from China under the new packaging regulation also received the green light.
By Amelie Richter
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has surprisingly announced that he is suspending his official duties for the time being. The background to this is an investigation into his wife.
By Claire Stam
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
On Wednesday, the EU Parliament adopted the new Single Market Emergency and Resilience Act, which aims to prevent supply bottlenecks in crisis situations. The Council will give its approval in the coming days.
By Marc Winkelmann
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
Last summer, Thomas Heilmann temporarily halted the German Building Energy Act; now, he wants to do the same with the amendment to the Climate Action Act. Because the government's timetable is "unreasonable," he has filed an urgent appeal with the Federal Constitutional Court.
By Malte Kreutzfeldt
Due to programmatic overlaps with left and right-wing parties, Sahra Wagenknecht's party is finding it difficult to fit into the European party landscape. Leading candidate Fabio de Masi wants new alliances.
By Vera Weidenbach
TikTok operator ByteDance has temporarily taken offline the most controversial feature of its TikTok Lite app in the EU, thus avoiding an order from the EU Commission. The Commission has announced that it will continue to scrutinize the matter closely.
By Falk Steiner