Lobbying spending is concentrated in the hands of tech giants, mainly from the U.S., according to the analysis by Corporate Europe Observatory and LobbyControl, two non-profit campaign groups focused on corporate influence.
The ten largest technology spenders — which include Meta,…
“There has to be a text put to a vote that can have a majority in the plenary, and the more reliable majority is EPP with S&D, Renew and the Greens,” Socialists negotiator René Repasi told POLITICO. “That’s what the final text has to reflect.”
But that’s not the direction the…
“We have no interest in young Ukrainian men spending their time in Germany instead of defending their country,” Jürgen Hardt, a senior foreign policy lawmaker from Merz’s conservatives, told POLITICO on Tuesday. “Ukraine makes its own decisions, but the recent change in the law has…
Along these lines, Russian Ambassador to South Korea Georgy Zinoviev had already predicted better ties between Moscow and Seoul once Yoon was impeached, and he was right: South Korea invited Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, for this week’s…
Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday as a Category 5 storm with winds up to 295 km/h, the strongest in 174 years. Streets in Kingston were flooded and power cuts hit a third of the island.
Officials warn of a four-metre storm surge as Melissa heads toward Cuba.
His blunt intervention comes the day after another Antwerp judge published an anonymous letter decrying that Belgium was on the verge of becoming a “narco-state.”
De Wever, prime minister since February this year, spent more than a decade as mayor of Antwerp demanding more federal money to…
Fierce winds ripped roofs from buildings, and massive boulders crashed down onto roads, cutting off access across the region.
Defending the Eastern flank is now an existential question for Europe, Lithuania’s Foreign Affairs Minister Kęstutis Budrys has told Euronews in an interview after a series of air incursions put member states from the Baltics to Poland on high alert.
Disruptions in the European airspace by…
The numbers reveal highly volatile voter support, with undecided voters likely to play a decisive role. According to Ipsos I&O, about 13 percent of voters are undecided, but even those who indicated a preference are still highly uncommitted; only 26 percent of those interviewed were sure…
The complaint referred to minutes from a meeting in May between the cabinet of Economy Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis and the European Round Table for Industry, which read: “ERT inquired about the proposals regarding the first omnibus proposal. Head of Cabinet gave an overview of the state…