Sovereignty funding can wait: the new instrument for restarting European industry, timidly announced by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in January and loudly demanded by Italy (but rejected by the frugal, led by Germany), seems destined to have a side. Instead, work is ongoing in Brussels on Step, an acronym for new clean technologies […]
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Meloni wants more money from Europe, Germany raises the wall
A new “sovereignty fund” providing additional EU resources to encourage investment and competition. This is one of the demands that Giorgia Meloni’s government submitted earlier this week in Brussels. “This is not the time to ask for new funds,” said German Finance Minister Christian Lindner, a proposal that Germany has built a wall over. Rome […]
Brussels launches green industry plan, but already all against all
Faster permits for new wind and photovoltaic installations. The maxi plan to train millions of people in the skills necessary for the dual transition, ecological and digital. Free trade agreements targeting critical raw material supply chains, particularly car batteries. But first of all, it is the release of larger investments in two ways: the first […]
Netherlands doesn’t trust Italy: ‘Little control over immigrants, EU should control’
The Netherlands wants the European Union to do more to curb the secondary movements of migrants reaching the rest of the continent from southern European countries, especially Italy. Contrary to the EU rules of the Dublin regulation. This is what we read in the document presented by the Dutch government in Brussels for the next […]