Recording: By loading the video, you accept YouTube’s privacy policy.Learn more Load video Always unlock YouTuben Dear friends, dear interested, Tracked, traced and manipulated: On the internet, the digital marketplace of our society, we as users have become the source of a free commodity – suppliers of behavioral data. Hardly anything works anymore without the […]
Success: Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism – Call for submission open
Dear friends, dear interested, From today (Wed, 23/6/21), submissions are open for the first Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism. Until 1 September 2021, outstanding pieces of in-depth journalism can be submitted by the authors themselves or anyone else here: https://daphnejournalismprize.eu/ The prize of €20.000 will be awarded annually by an independent jury. As it […]
Europe Calling “The Energy Charter Treaty – Scrutinising the dirtiest international agreement”- Thu, 23/6/21, 18-20 hrs CEST
Recording: By loading the video, you accept YouTube’s privacy policy.Learn more Load video Always unlock YouTuben Dear friends, dear interested, The Netherlands threatened and sued in front of an arbitration tribunal for its coal phase-out? Germany for exiting nuclear power? Italy for banning oil drilling in the Adriatic? This nightmare is already a reality, thanks […]
Green light for Portugal’s recovery plan: now it’s a matter of implementation
Today, 16 June, the EU Commission approved Portugal’s recovery and resilience plan worth around 16 billion euros. This evening, Spain’s plan will follow, and the Danish and Greek plans are also close to approval. Crucially, the national recovery plans need to meet the landmark targets of at least 37% spending on the Green Deal and […]
EU Digital COVID Certificate: Regaining free movement in a safe and citizen-friendly way
Yesterday, on Tuesday 8th June 2021, a large majority of the members of the European Parliament voted for the introduction of the COVID Certificate. This vote came after a thorough negotiation between the European Parliament, the Member States and the European Commission. In those negotiations, we, as Greens, addressed many of the concerns that we […]
EU infringement proceedings/ECB ruling: Appropriate way to resolve the legal conflict
Tomorrow, 9 June, the EU Commission will officially pave the way to an infringement procedure against Germany. In May last year, I had demanded such an infringement procedure from EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen after the German Federal Constitutional Court’s ruling on the ECB’s bond purchases. She then promised me that she would […]