Category: Politico News

Eurostat data shows Italy’s deficit was 3.1 percent last year, 0.1 percentage points above the EU’s threshold, leaving the government in a so-called excessive deficit procedure (EDP) — a red flag that Brussels plants on offending countries until they rein in their spending sufficiently. Italy is set to overtake Greece as the most indebted country […]

BRUSSELS — A descendant of the founder of Italian oil giant Eni wants to sue Giorgia Meloni’s government for using his family name in a major funding program investing across the African continent, the Italian press reported on Wednesday. According to the Italian daily La Stampa, Pietro Mattei issued a cease and desist letter to […]

Dans un entretien à POLITICO, le PDG de la première chaîne française, Rodolphe Belmer, appelle à réguler plus fortement YouTube, tout en desserrant la pression sur les acteurs audiovisuels traditionnels. Il balaye aussi la proposition de Mistral de rémunérer les créateurs via une licence globale. Apr 2 8 mins read

Insgesamt wird im AccelerateEU-Plan eine beschleunigte Abkehr von fossilen Brennstoffen und eine Hinwendung zu sauberem Strom betont. „Koordinierung ist der Schlüssel“, schrieb die Kommission am Mittwoch in einer Pressemitteilung und erklärte, dass die erste Priorität darin bestehe, die Befüllung von Gasspeichern, die Freigabe von Ölvorräten und „nationale Notfallmaßnahmen“ zu koordinieren, um die Versorgung mit Flugzeugtreibstoff […]

PARIS — Les députées MoDem Geneviève Darrieussecq et Josy Poueyto souhaitent que l’exploitation pétrolière continue après 2040 en France et veulent que de nouveaux permis de recherche puissent être autorisés “lorsque les intérêts fondamentaux de la Nation, la défense nationale ou la sécurité des approvisionnements stratégiques le justifient”. Une formule un peu large, mais “on […]

Overall, it emphasized an accelerated switch away from fossil fuels and toward clean electricity. “Coordination is key,” the Commission wrote in a press release Wednesday, saying the first priority would be to coordinate on gas storage filling, oil stock releases and “national emergency measures” to ensure supply of jet fuel and diesel. “Our AccelerateEU strategy […]

Russian Ambassador Paramonov dismissed Tajani’s protests in a post on Facebook, saying Rome had “missed the mark” by summoning him over comments made by a television host and insisting the remarks did not reflect the position of the Russian government. “No reasonable person would treat purely personal remarks as an official statement,” he added. Russia’s […]

Have the prime minister and Number 10 weathered the storm on the Peter Mandelson vetting scandal? With the dust only beginning to settle, Sam and Anne dissect the mixed, uncomfortable and carefully worded reactions from senior figures across the Labour Party after Olly Robbins’ combative session in front of a Foreign Affairs Committee. Keir Starmer […]

Brussels faces a narrowing window to strike a deal on its next long-term budget. EU leaders gather in Cyprus this week for a potential clash over the bloc’s €1.8 trillion plan — already dividing north and south, farmers and reformers, capitals and Brussels. Council President Antonio Costa wants momentum. But with proposed new EU taxes, […]

Am Mittwochabend deutscher Zeit endet die Waffenruhe zwischen den USA und dem Iran. Julius Brinkmann von POLITICO in Washington, D.C. gibt ein Update zu den wichtigsten Entwicklungen aus der Nacht und zum Stand von Friedensgespräch in Islamabad. Mehr Informationen dazu auch in unserem ⁠Newsletter D.C. Decoded⁠. Lange galt die Vorratsdatenspeicherung als unlösbarer Zankapfel. Aber heute […]