Category: 3. Europe

Campaigners believe such a fundamental change to how NICE functions should have required primary legislation, rather than secondary legislation pushed through with limited scrutiny. 

Some MPs have already tried to push back on the legislative changes. 

Former Shadow Chancellor John…

The European Commission is preparing to take a much tougher line on China, we hear on this episode of the Brussels Playbook Podcast, with Zoya Sheftalovich joined by Nick Vinocur. Brussels is growing increasingly worried about cheap imports, industrial decline and dependence on…

Cloud services featured in the Finnish agency’s recent annual report, which said their adoption can obscure the digital independence of states. Martelius said that there had been discussion in Finland about putting election information in a cloud service, but given that the Finnish election…

Markus Söders politischer Instinkt sagt ihm, dass die Luft dünner wird. Nach den bitteren Schlappen bei den bayerischen Kommunalwahlen und dem anhaltenden Druck durch die Freien Wähler und die AfD erfindet sich der bayerische Ministerpräsident mal wieder neu. Das Motto…

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The debate over Niebler’s immunity reveals the tensions between the Parliament and prosecutors, including EPPO, over who gets to decide whether lawmakers should be investigated.

If the full Parliament backs the JURI decision — which seems likely given Niebler is a member of the EPP,…

Adding insult to injury, instead of approving the deal as negotiated, the European Parliament is now trying to rewrite it by tacking on four new amendments. These changes would include sunrise and sunset clauses, suspension mechanisms and safeguards that were never part of the original…

Things can’t only get better 

It wasn’t always like this. 

The last Labour prime minister to win big before Starmer was Tony Blair. When he came to power in 1997, the U.K. had a bigger economy than China’s, was a leading member of the growing European Union trade bloc,…