The GDPR will soon apply to all companies in Europe [Sponsored]
The clock is ticking and companies in the EU will have to meet the requirements of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) from the end of May 2018. The Regulation brings extensive changes...
View ArticleSchulz says EU allies, including Tsipras, urged him to join Merkel government
The head of Germany's Social Democrats, Martin Schulz, said on Monday (4 December) he had been urged by French President Emmanuel Macron and other European leaders to join Chancellor Angela Merkel's...
View ArticleEnvironment minister: Poland has to win at the European Court of Justice
Polish Environment Minister Jan Szyszko announced at Sunday's (3 December) meeting in Białowieża that he would appear before the EU Court of Justice on the main trial over the Białowieża Forest....
View ArticleHow important is a healthy breakfast in our lives?
The World Health Organisation says that more than 60% of children who are overweight before puberty will be overweight in early adulthood.
View ArticleIreland makes U-turn, says will collect €13 billion back taxes from Apple
The Irish government has reached an agreement with Apple to start collecting the €13 billion owed by the tech giant, it announced on Monday (4 December).
View ArticleHungary: We face a ‘delicate mix’ of witch hunt and short trial
Hungary is convinced that the EU institutions are on the wrong side of history in the context of the migration crisis, Zoltán Kovács, the spokesperson of the Hungarian government, told journalists in...
View Article‘Committed’ Canete ups pressure on EU buildings law
The EU Commissioner in charge of climate action, Miguel Arias Cañete, will personally attend three-way talks taking place Tuesday (5 December) on the recast energy performance of buildings directive...
View ArticleEU divided over tax haven blacklist
European Union ministers will haggle on Tuesday to draw up a blacklist of non-EU tax havens, with about 20 countries in danger of being publicly exposed for facilitating tax evasion.
View ArticleTelecoms ministers snub Commission’s spectrum overhaul in 5G strategy
Telecoms ministers from EU countries agreed on a plan to set up fast 5G internet networks by 2025, five years after the European Commission's original proposal, and snubbed a proposal to reform rules...
View ArticlePortugal scores again, landing Eurogroup presidency
Portuguese Finance minister Mário Centeno became on Monday the new president of the Eurogroup as he promised to bring consensus across the aisle to strengthen the eurozone.
View ArticleTackling poor payment cultures and delivering for small businesses
Today, small firms across Europe are struggling with the soaring costs of running a business – from business rates to rental costs, increasing inflation to higher export costs. Now imagine trying to...
View ArticleIs culture genuinely at the heart of EU international relations? [Sponsored]
The EU is committed to promoting cultural heritage but its actions against Malta risk wiping out a deeply-rooted and important cultural practice, argues Lino Farrugia.
View ArticleOpen Society has done good work in Hungary. Why is it being attacked?
Recently I have taken to counting the billboards attacking George Soros as I walk to my office at the Open Society Foundations, writes Goran Buldioski. There are six along my twenty-minute route and...
View ArticleBrexit and the ghosts of Ireland’s past
Negotiations in Northern Ireland have a law of their own. The Good Friday Agreement came about after months of painstaking diplomacy between London, Belfast and Dublin. Brexit will be no different,...
View ArticleControversial MEP replaced as lead on energy savings file
Socialists and Democrats (S&D group) MEP Adam Gierek has been replaced as the lead rapporteur on the recast of the energy efficiency directive, barely a week after his report was narrowly adopted...
View ArticleEU cohesion policy is Europe’s added value [Sponsored]
Representing 1/3 of the EU budget, our cohesion policy is made up of hundreds and thousands of local success stories.
View ArticleRefiners accuse EU lawmakers of ‘bias’ towards electric vehicles
EU policy on vehicle emissions is biased towards electrification, the trade association FuelsEurope argued on Monday (4 December), as it presented a study suggesting that a gradual switch from diesel...
View ArticleNational and regional parliaments bet on Timmermans’ task force to gain clout
A few weeks after the European Commission launched yet another task force to look at ways to improve legislative scrutiny, national and regional parliaments representatives mulled new ideas to put more...
View ArticleEU needs advanced biofuels boost to reach climate goals, transport...
The International Energy Agency confirms that sustainable biofuels are needed to secure transport decarbonisation. The European Parliament’s Industry Committee, for its part, confirms the need to set a...
View ArticleEU must ‘marry’ Western Balkans quickly to avoid new risks – Albania PM
The Western Balkans countries are in a much better shape than they were in the 1990s but the European Union should open accession talks with them as soon possible or risk seeing them wooed by Russia,...
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