Opinion

What's cooking in Strasbourg

Alsatian choucroute on the menu: next Wednesday, MEPs will decide in plenary session in Strasbourg of what the taxonomy should consist.

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Quarantine Updates Shanghai

Author Christian Y. Schmidt is known to the China-interested public for his humorous books and provocative posts on social media. Now he returns with a more serious topic. In book length he has recorded his observations and feelings during the Chinese entry quarantine. This excerpt gives a heavily abridged taste of the book.

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Nature Restoration Law: positive impetus for the Green Deal

Yes, the EU Commission has stayed the course, with Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans and Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius in a leading role. On June 22, they presented the proposal for a regulation to restore nature, which goes back to the European Green Deal.

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What's cooking in Luxembourg

By Claire Stam

With more transparency to more vaccinations

China tries to contain infections with a strict zero-Covid policy and hard lockdowns. These measures are necessary because the vaccination rate is still too low. The population is wary of vaccinations. Nancy Qian explains what it will take to convince people to get vaccinated.

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For a new European integration landscape

For a long time, Wandel durch Handel ("change through trade") was the unofficial slogan of the European security architecture. The war in Ukraine has ruthlessly revealed that the German government's long and naively negligent adherence to this principle has tended to rather bring about the opposite of peace and democratic progress in Europe. Now is the time to rebuild the European integration landscape on the basis of democracy and the rule of law.

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Why technology is power and Europe doesn't have enough of it

The EU is at risk of being left behind technologically. It urgently needs allies like the USA to stand up to major powers like Russia and China. However, it cannot submit to them.

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Why the French Presidency had promised more than it had achieved on climate

In two weeks the French Council Presidency will come to an end. In today's Opinion, Susi Dennison takes a look back at the points that have been redeemed and those that are still open.

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What's cooking in Brussels

By Claire Stam

Rethinking global supply chains

Europe has become critically dependent on China in some respects. As a result, global supply chains need to be reconsidered and reorganized. Shifting production back from China to Europe will play an increasingly important role in this process.

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