He will play an important role, and he is apparently on the side of the Commission: Charles Michel, as Council President, will chair and moderate the summit meetings of the 27 EU heads of state and government. The next will take place in early February. An important topic there will be how the EU responds to the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a massive subsidy program by the American government. In an interview with some international media outlets, Michel, who was...
Goalkeeper change at the record champions Zoff potential with Neuer: FC Bayern intends to do that with Yann Sommer Manuel Neuer and Yann Sommer know each other from numerous duels against each other. Two years ago they met Germany and Switzerland in the Nations League. © Federico Gambarini / DPA Yann Sommer will be FC Bayern's new number one for the next six months. With the commitment of the Swiss national keeper, the Munich team did everything right. But what...
It's hard to believe that it's in one of these small laboratories, at the end of a long corridor, that an important game is played for Europe in the space exploration market, which is opening up to everything. It is however here, within the Bordeaux Technowest incubator, a building lost at the end of the runways of Bordeaux-Mérignac airport (Gironde), that the German-Bordeaux start-up The Exploration Company (TEC) is partly designing Nyx, a reusable space capsule - in the vein...
How to reform a justice considered "too slow and too complex" by citizens and out of breath by those who render it? This is the delicate equation to which the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, has engaged. The former lawyer-star unveiled this Thursday around sixty measures to "refloat" an institution on the brink of crisis. Main objective: to “simplify and modernize” the procedure in order, in particular, to drastically reduce the duration of justice while reducing the workload of the...
Ivan Perisic before Argentina-Croatia in the semi-finals of the World Cup: “We saw in the last round that Portugal and Cristiano Ronaldo lost. He's been to five World Cups and he's failed to win one, and Messi is trying to do the same for Argentina. So he will certainly do everything he can to bring his team to the final and win the trophy. But on the other hand, we will also do everything we can to win. It will...
Status: 04.12.2022 7:55 p.m With its investment program for climate protection, the USA has drawn a great deal of displeasure from the EU. Commission chief von der Leyen has now outlined how Brussels could react: with more money and fewer regulations. In the conflict over US subsidy policy, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has called for a change of course in European investment policy. Von der Leyen proposes, among other things, to relax the EU regulations for public...
Status: 12/04/2022 5:32 p.m With its investment program for climate protection, the USA has drawn a great deal of displeasure from the EU. Commission chief von der Leyen has now outlined how Brussels could react: with more money and fewer regulations. In the conflict over US subsidy policy, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has called for a change of course in European investment policy. Von der Leyen proposes, among other things, to relax the EU regulations for public...
The French president's objective is to strengthen ties with Joe Biden, at a time when the war in Ukraine is making cooperation between the United States and Europe even more essential, while risking to test cohesion of the transatlantic bloc. The latter, whether in support of Ukraine against Russia, sanctions against Moscow, or the strengthening of NATO to protect the Old Continent, has shown great unity since the beginning of the conflict. But friction has surfaced in recent weeks over...
There was a time when Italy was addicted to China. That's not long ago. Former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte received China's President Xi Jinping three years ago in the magnificent Renaissance villa Madama in Rome and signed a bilateral agreement on Italy's participation in China's major "New Silk Road" project. Conte's China flirt met with massive resentment in the West in 2019 - no other G-7 country took part in Beijing's initiative.After the mega deal, the Italians also signed a...
More leeway, but also more hardness - the EU Commission is proposing this deal to the member states in the rules for sound financial management. The authority presented the long-awaited reform proposals for the Stability and Growth Pact in Brussels on Wednesday. Accordingly, highly indebted euro countries such as Greece and Italy should be given more time and flexibility to reduce their liabilities. In return, penalties should be imposed more quickly in the event of violations. Commission Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis...
