Category: 3. Europe

On 27 May, important amendments to the Package Travel Directive enter into force. The new rules adopted by the European Parliament and the Council strengthen traveller rights and improve legal certainty for the package travel sector, which is largely made up of SMEs and…

Für die Bundesregierung steht in New York viel auf dem Spiel. Deutschland will wieder einen der begehrten, nichtständigen Sitze im UN-Sicherheitsrat für die Jahre 2027 und 2028. Aber aus der Bewerbung ist ein knallharter Postenpoker geworden: Weil sich neben Deutschland auch…

Is the EU finally ready to get serious about China?

That’s the question increasingly dominating conversations in Brussels as fears grow that Europe is being squeezed by Beijing’s industrial machine.

Host Sarah Wheaton is joined by Sander Tordoir from the Centre for…

“If this tax on American companies is enacted, it would be at odds with the Turnberry Agreement, in which the European Union committed to ‘address unjustified digital trade barriers’ — not erect new ones,” Greer said.

The criticism follows scrutiny by Republicans in Washington of…

Magyar has a parliamentary supermajority. But the reforms must be drafted, enacted and survive legal challenges. Key posts — including the presidency, the head of the constitutional court and the prosecutor general — remain occupied by Orbán loyalists who could obstruct…

One of the thorniest issues involves giving more supervisory powers to the EU’s markets body, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).

France and Spain pushed to give ESMA sweeping new powers immediately, while Italy and the Netherlands pushed for a transition period of up…

Winning a game at a World Cup has never been straightforward. From the moment the tournament began in Uruguay in 1930, the gap between participating and succeeding has separated nations across generations. Some countries have shown up regularly and gone home early. Others have…

The European Commission has just released a Staff Working Document (SWD) outlining its analysis in support of the Biotech Act I. The publication comes more than five months after the Commission presented its proposal in mid-December.

One of the more contentious proposals in…

Spokesperson of the Chinese Mission to the EU

Mutual benefit and win-win cooperation are the strongest driving force for China-EU relations. Since the 1980s, China-EU practical cooperation and China’s reform and opening up have reinforced each other, helping China’s…

In a new report, ‘Behind the Price Tag’, the Association of European Cancer Leagues (ECL) has renewed calls for a major overhaul of the EU’s pharmaceutical pricing rules, arguing that the EU’s long-standing Transparency Directive no longer reflects the realities of…