Tag: EU
Financial policy must free itself from the debt trap
What to do with the debt Regardless of whether Olaf Scholz or Armin Laschet moves into the Chancellery after Sunday’s elections, the answer to this question will shape Germany’s financial…
European judges negotiate the power of Google
Google app With the Android operating system, Google gains a gigantic range. (Photo: AP) Dusseldorf Antitrust law is a cumbersome instrument. As early as 2013, the European Commission received a…
What the EU expects from the meeting with the US
Brussels According to the program, the aim is to strengthen mutual investment links and to coordinate the regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In fact, there is a lot more at…
How the future of nuclear energy is being struggled with
Brussels, Berlin The future of nuclear energy is decided by one word: “Significant”. Sounds absurd, but it gets to the, well, crux of the matter. In future, technologies must meet…
Disrupted supply chains: Britain is desperately looking for truck drivers
Truck driver The shortage of drivers is due to the fact that around 25,000 truckers returned to the European continent after Brexit. (Photo: Reuters) London The British government has announced…
What the nuclear-submarine dispute says about Europe’s strategic autonomy
But France is right on one point. The Aukus nuclear-submarine alliance between the USA, Australia and the UK will have lasting effects on NATO. NATO will not dissolve, but it…
Despite submarine dispute: transatlantic economic summit takes place
Brussels So now after all: The transatlantic economic summit in Pittsburgh can take place – as originally planned. In the past few days there has been a heated argument in…
Despite submarine dispute: transatlantic economic summit takes place
Brussels So now after all: The transatlantic economic summit in Pittsburgh can take place – as originally planned. In the past few days there has been a heated argument in…
Submarine dispute USA & Europe: submarine dispute turns into transatlantic crisis
Australian Navy submarine The announcement of an Indo-Pacific security pact between the US, Australia and Great Britain (Aukus) broke a French submarine deal with Australia. (Photo: Australian Defense Force via…
Turow lignite area: Poland has to pay a fine
Luxembourg In the dispute over the Turow lignite mining on the border with Saxony, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has sentenced Poland to a fine. Despite an interim ECJ…
How an entrepreneur reaches his limit
The Kröner-strength company in Ibbenbüren The company produces starch for food and adhesives. (Photo: Kröner-GmbH) Brussels, Berlin You can’t tell from the white flakes that Götz Kröner produces in Ibbenbüren…
Nuclear power comeback? France is putting Germany under pressure
Berlin, Brussels, Paris Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet formulated a thought in the second television debate on the federal election that he was apparently unsure of himself. Germany made a…
MEPs suspect Gazprom of market manipulation
Pipes for Nordstream 2 The construction of the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline has been completed. (Photo: dpa) Brussels Several dozen EU MPs suspect a possible market manipulation of…
Inflation rate in the euro zone reaches ten-year high
Fuel prices Energy prices rose by 15.4 percent in August. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Consumer prices in the euro zone climbed by 3.0 percent within a year in August, the European…
How Europe will respond to the next pandemic
Vaccine ampoules The production of vaccines against new diseases should be able to be ramped up quickly with the help of the authority. (Photo: dapd) Brussels An office is being…
Olaf Scholz is sticking to the EU Stability Pact
Olaf Scholz The Chancellor candidate currently has a good chance of winning the Bundestag election with the SPD. (Photo: Marc-Steffen Unger for Handelsblatt / www.ms-unger.de) Berlin, Teltow The SPD chancellor…
How Europe wants to survive in the systemic conflict with China
So that there is no misunderstanding: It is not a new name for Berlin Airport, nor is it an AOL modem from the 1990s. No, what EU Commission President Ursula…
Olaf Scholz is sticking to the EU Stability Pact
Olaf Scholz The Chancellor candidate currently has a good chance of winning the Bundestag election with the SPD. (Photo: Marc-Steffen Unger for Handelsblatt / www.ms-unger.de) Berlin, Teltow The SPD chancellor…
Clear fronts, cramp after the general election
Europe column Every week Moritz Koch, head of the Handelsblatt office in Brussels, analyzes trends and conflicts, regulatory projects and strategic concepts from the inner workings of the EU. Because…
EU wants more trade relations with Taiwan
Brussels The EU is looking to join forces with value partners such as the USA in order to counter the growing power of China. “Democratic values and human rights are…