Shorouk Express Ursula von der Leyen appears before the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Monday ahead of the first vote of confidence in a European Commission president since 2014. The vote itself is scheduled to take place on Thursday. Given the EU’s mainstream parties say they will back her, she will certainly win it. But…
Shorouk Express At this stage, the vote is mainly symbolic — the majority of political groups have already signaled that they will vote against the motion of no confidence — but it underscores the growing anger with her in Brussels after a string of controversial moves and scandals. If the no-confidence motion were to pass,…
Shorouk Express Indeed, just as the CEOs were pouring out their woes to the Commission president, a few floors below, Teresa Ribera, commissioner for a clean industrial transition, was presenting the bloc’s climate targets for 2040. Von der Leyen’s center-right European People’s Party is widely accused of watering down the EU’s environmental agenda in order…
Shorouk Express Am zweiten Tag des NATO-Gipfels in Den Haag geht es um die zentralen Streitpunkte: Die Finanzierung der europäischen Sicherheit, das auch von Kanzler Friedrich Merz vorangetriebene 5-Prozent-Ziel, eine gemeinsame Haltung gegenüber den USA und wie die Ukraine bei diesem Gipfel teils zurückstehen muss. Gordon Repinski und Rixa Fürsen analysieren aus Den Haag die…
Shorouk Express “The debate on Pfizergate, we protected her from it, if this continues like this, we will stop protecting her,” a senior Renew official said. The Socialists and liberals could “stop playing the game and making deals in other files with EPP,” effectively blocking the EU’s legislative process, they added. “The problem now is…
Shorouk Express She identified four central tasks to bring about independence: Securing peace by increasing defense spending; strengthening innovation and competitiveness to stimulate growth; expanding the bloc in what she referred to as “a historic reunification”; and renewing and strengthening democracy to protect member countries from internal and external threats. “That we are now enabling…
Shorouk Express Von der Leyen also announced she would put forward a “European Innovation Act” and a “Startup and Scaleup Strategy” to cut red tape and boost access to venture capital to help turn innovative science into business opportunities. She pledged to legally codify the freedom of scientific research on the continent by proposing a…
Shorouk Express Trump’s tariffs — 10 percent on most countries, 145 percent on China and 25 percent on steel, aluminum and cars — roiled global markets when he announced them at the start of the month. The World Trade Organization forecasts that global trade will shrink by as much as 1.5 percent if Trump reinstates his higher “reciprocal”…
Shorouk Express The remarks point to EU resolve to enforce an extensive package of digital rules that have come in for bitter criticism from senior members of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration. Vice President JD Vance has led the charge against European laws such as the Digital Services Act (DSA), which governs content, or the…
Shorouk Express Seibert did not immediately respond to a request for comment from POLITICO, and the Commission has not confirmed details of the visit. Outreach from Seibert came amid preparations for U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance to sit down with von der Leyen on Tuesday this week in Paris. According to a Commission readout from…
