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Timmermans wants to bring the law to the European Parliament (EP). Whether it will be approved there remains to be seen. The nature -restoration law is getting more and more opposition.

Has Timmermans to climb down on his EU nature-restoration law proposal?

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, May 24, 2023

EU Commissioner Frans Timmermans, one of the Vice-Presidents of the European Commission, is working on an ambitious law to help restore nature in the European Union

This week’s review by the OECD says: “The German economy has structural weaknesses’.

OECD: ‘German economy has structural weaknesses’

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, May 10, 2023

If Germany had to compete against France in economic performance, it would be loose

The European Commission has a plan to increase the capacity for ammunition producing to 1 million a year, to arm Ukraine and refill its own stocks. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Council President Charles Michel have used the war to make the EU closer.

The EU: from Venus to Mars

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Once was stated that America lives on Mars and Europe on Venus. Times have change

Beijing distanced itself clearly and immediately from their diplomat in Paris.

The thorny EU relation with China

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, April 26, 2023

A statement made by China’s ambassador to France caused an uproar by questioning the independence of nations that had previously been part of the USSR

Now, the EU’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell is expected to travel to Beijing the end of this week. To try to present a unified EU front on China policy.

The divided EU, this time on China policy

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, April 12, 2023

On a flight from Beijing to Guangzhou last week, French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters that the European Union should avoid becoming a ‘vassal’ of the United States on China, especially urging distance concerning any potential military aid to Taiwan.

It will be difficult for Von der Leyen and Macron to show one EU face.

Von der Leyen and Macron in Beijing: a tale of two EU’s

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, April 5, 2023

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and French President Emmanuel Macron are in Beijing for a so called ‘key visit’

Proponents, led by France, want nuclear-made hydrogen to count in the new EU targets for renewable energy. Paris says that the EU cannot achieve the climate goals without nuclear energy.

Role of nuclear energy divides again the EU

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, March 29, 2023

The role of nuclear energy in tackling climate change is once again a divisive issue in the European Union

But is French democracy functioning? Faith in conventional politics and the parliamentary system is in fact at rock-bottom. How else to explain the collapse of Gaullists and Socialists, who ran France for more than half a century. And Macron only narrowly could defeat the far-right candidate for the Presidency.

‘Blame 49.3. Blame Macron’, Democracy French style

By: N. Peter Kramer | Tuesday, March 21, 2023

French President Macron’s decision to push through his pension-change plan via a controversial constitutional article (the so-called 49.3 procedure) that sidelines the parliament added fuel to the fire

FDP party leader and minister of finance, Christian Lindner, demands certainty about the wish that the new cars with a petrol or diesel engine will be allowed after 2035 if they run on CO2-free synthetic fuels.

Germany put bomb under EU ban on petrol and diesel cars

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Will there not be a ban on new petrol and diesel cars in 2035?

Still it launched 61 new drinks. Heineken’s reputation as a company committed to corporate social responsibility has been torn to shreds.

Heineken gives a hangover with its Russian brews

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Heineken is under fire. Last year, the famous brewery group led the way in announcing that it would leave Russia

If China decided to send arms, the war will undoubtedly escalate further.

Is China determining the course of the war in Ukraine?

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Will China supply arms to Russia?

May be, during Zelensky’s ’secret’ visit to Brussels, not only some questions could be asked about the immense corruption in his country, even the minister of Defense had to step down, but also about the use of forbidden anti-personnel mines.

Ukraine: war and corruption

By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, January 30, 2023

For a long time already Ukraine is, after Russia, listed as Europe’s most corrupted country on the index of Transparency International and the spectre of corruption is once again haunting the country

The new Media Law signed by President Zelensky kills media freedom in Ukraine.

Zelensky’s new media law kills media freedom in Ukraine

By: N. Peter Kramer | Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Ukrainian journalists’ organisations are sounding the alarm

The UAE is also a bizarre choice by the UN. The country has the fourth largest per capita carbon footprint behind Qatar, Bahrein and Kuwait.

Oil company CEO becomes president of next climate conference

By: EBR | Tuesday, January 17, 2023

The UAE (United Arab Emirates) will host the next UN climate conference, COP28

France’s EU Commissioner for industry, Thierry Breton, is in the lead to support what he is calling an EU Inflation Reduction Act, to subsidise EU’s domestic industries to prevent them of being wiped out by the US act.

The EU tries to hit back against US protectionist law

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, January 11, 2023

The European Commission wants to hit back to the US Inflation Reduction Act

The European Parliament, and certainly the socialist group, like to play the role of the guardian of a better world and to regularly wave its moral finger.

Socialists embarrass European Parliament

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, December 14, 2022

The European Parliament has often come under fire, but this time it is facing the biggest crisis in its 70 years of existence

In order to get Orban to drop the Hungarian veto, Germany, France, Italy and Poland, among others, are willing to be less strict than the Commission on the rule of law in Hungary.

Orban plays hardball

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Some EU memberstates seems willing to tackle Hungary less harshly on the rule of law than the European Commission and Parliament

The US is the second-largest destination for British-made cars after the EU; and the automotive sector is one of Britain’s top good exporters. The IRA also affect cars made in the US by UK manufacturers.

Britain trapped in EU-US trade war

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, November 30, 2022

The UK finds itself caught in a transatlantic trade war between the European Union and the United States

‘The planet is in extensive care’

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Last year at the Glasgow summit it was agreed that each year must tighten up its national climate plans, otherwise the solemn promise to limit warming to 1,5 degrees Celsius would no longer be feasible

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