Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...European parliament, member states and the European Commission....
...But members of the European parliament attacked the commission in December for releasing €10bn to Orbán in return for judicial reforms, ahead of a summit at which he threatened to veto membership talks with...
...Not much will happen in the early days. The commission’s aversion to “cherry-picking” remains and little official work has been done at the UK end. But Labour sees the pact opening doors....
...“The commission doesn’t have to incentivise this. Governments will place orders, defence companies will invest in capacity and sell their stuff. That’s how market economies work....
...Officials in the commission’s trade department are now involved in discussions with EU member states to try to remove the effective ban from the bloc’s proposed packaging legislation....
...Gerb are members of European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s EPP group, and their capture of the prime minister’s chair was set to give the EPP 13 of the EU’s 27 leaders for the June discussions...
...But because they have the lowest absorption rates of regular EU funds, the amount of their entitled budget that they spend, it raises questions about their capacity to spend huge amounts of additional money...
...Shortly before he wielded his veto against the Ukraine support package in December, the commission released €10bn in blocked funding following legal changes by Hungary to strengthen judicial independence...
...The estimate was “more or less there”, said a Ukrainian official....
...His action could prompt leaders of the Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) population to bolster their own capacity to protect their interests and possibly lead to violent conflicts that could overwhelm peacekeeping...
...The three member states urged the European Commission to work with experts to better monitor brown bear populations and quickly downgrade their protected status in the Habitats Directive, a cornerstone of...
...The commission has said it is looking at ways to support the industry. What to watch today European Council summit, arrivals from 8.30am. Nato member state ambassadors visit Sarajevo....
...Wall Street stocks incurred their longest losing streak in 18 months before jumping yesterday....
...Röpke said that the “enlargement members” of the EESC would be fully involved in the committee’s opinion-drafting process. Their final number will be decided at a plenary session next month....
...The day before EU leaders gathered in Brussels, the commission agreed to release €10bn of the frozen funds to Hungary, arguing it had enacted reforms strengthening judicial independence....
...A qualified majority of the 27 member states must now agree, but with Germany and around 20 other governments in favour officials believe that is a foregone conclusion....
...Plans will be discussed by the commission, member states and operators on March 25 with potential proposals on how to distribute grid investments to be made in June, according to officials involved....
...Member states will look at initiatives from the commission, always with a degree of suspicion. Is the commission trying to expand its remit here?...
...EU laws on asylum, including the reform currently being finalised by member states and the European parliament, stipulate that asylum seekers “shall be allowed to remain in the member state” during their...
...Hungary enacted judicial reforms in May in response to demands from Brussels — which would allow the commission to unlock €13bn, more than half of the frozen funding, the officials said on condition of anonymity...
...But commission officials defend their decisions on state aid given the threat they say is posed by the US’s green subsidies, which they say could prompt an exodus of EU companies across the Atlantic if Brussels...
...But in practice it is proving painfully slow to get the money out of the door, because it requires the member states to meet performance targets set by the commission....
...Israel’s offensive has already killed more than 33,000 people, according to Palestinian officials, and forced 1.7mn of the 2.3mn population from their homes....
...But zealous rulemaking has also highlighted divisions within the commission, whose two Republican commissioners often dissent from the three-member Democratic wing when it comes to votes on proposals....
...As one EU diplomat observes, some existing capitals will insist on seeing extremely robust safeguards in new member states to protect the rule of law and judicial independence....
International Edition