Tag: EU member state
Italy wants to change the EU recovery fund
Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni With the restructuring of the reconstruction fund, she is keeping one of her key campaign promises. (Photo: IMAGO/NurPhoto) Brussels, Rome It was an election campaign…
Teachers and students are on strike against Viktor Orban’s school policies
Vienna No matter how great the resistance that Hungary’s prime minister is facing in the European Union, Viktor Orban reigns almost unchallenged at home. However, one professional group is stubbornly…
EU Council President Michel presents four-point plan against IRA
EU Council President Charles Michel Michel believes that high EU investments are necessary in response to the American subsidy package. (Photo: dpa) Brussels, Berlin The European response to the US…
A kingdom with no future plan
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in the House of Commons Prime Minister Sunak is seen as a pragmatic prime minister, but he lacks a vision for the future. (Photo: via…
Europe needs a new era in Franco-German relations
The author Philippe Oddo is managing partner and CEO of the German-French private bank ODDO BHF Group. January 22 marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Franco-German friendship…
Now it’s time to keep your fingers crossed for Lufthansa
ITA-Jet prepares to land in Los Angeles If the Italian airline is to be in the black soon, the Lufthansa management must take a very close look at the route…
Unionists continue to block government formation in Belfast
Mary Lou McDonald (l), Sinn Fein Party Chair, and Michelle O’Neill, Vice Chair The nationalists fear that the central government in London could effectively regain political power in Northern Ireland…
Banks in the EU often pay salaries in the millions
Financial district in Frankfurt In Germany, the millionaire density among bankers is particularly high: around 30 percent of all top earners in the EU work here. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt The…
“Our approach was very different from the German one”
Nadia Calvino Spain does not only want to achieve climate change in its own country. (Photo: AP) Madrid Spain’s Economics Minister Nadia Calviño is calling for a level playing field…
Savings are melting away in Italy – is the country slipping into recession?
Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Rome All of Italy is currently discussing petrol prices. There is talk of usury, of motorway gas stations where a liter of diesel costs 2.50…
Savings are melting away in Italy – is the country slipping into recession?
Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Rome All of Italy is currently discussing petrol prices. There is talk of usury, of motorway gas stations where a liter of diesel costs 2.50…
The planned reform of the EU budget rules gives the Commission too much power
European flags fly in front of the EU Commission headquarters The Commission wants lower debt ratios in the member countries. (Photo: dpa) In November, the EU Commission presented its proposals…
EU Council Presidency: Sweden under observation
Stockholm, Brussels Sweden takes over the EU Council Presidency for six months – and unrest is growing in Brussels. What worries the EU is the strong position of the Sweden…
EU Council Presidency: Sweden under observation
Stockholm, Brussels Sweden takes over the EU Council Presidency for six months – and unrest is growing in Brussels. What worries the EU is the strong position of the Sweden…
Great Britain and the EU draw closer
London/Brussels Progress is being made in the long-running dispute between Great Britain and the EU over post-Brexit trade relations with Northern Ireland. After a meeting between British Foreign Secretary James…
Election in Spain 2023: Stable economy, wedged politics
Madrid If the state of the economy alone were to decide the upcoming elections in Spain in 2023, the governing socialists would have nothing to worry about. Inflation in Spain…
Why Italy remains a risk
Italy remains a risk Handelsblatt editor Frank Wiebe explains why Italy remains a problem for Europe and especially for the euro zone. (Photo: Getty Images) Frankfurt Europe’s stock exchanges were…
Debt is antisocial for our children and grandchildren
Christian Lindner Citizens can only trust that the finance minister will remain true to his policy of sound finances. That’s what it looks like, and that’s a good thing. (Photo:…
The UK is missing its own targets for post-Brexit trade deals
The flag of Great Britain at half mast The possibility, as a sovereign state, to conclude its own trade agreements free of EU regulations was one of the central promises…
In 2022, Germany will once again be the leader in asylum applications
asylum applications Most asylum applicants in Germany this year came from Syria at 27 percent, followed by Afghanistan (17 percent), Turkey (10 percent), Iraq (6.9 percent) and Georgia (4.0 percent).…