The European Parliament is planning to vote on a an amendment to rescind Markus Pieper’ s appointment on Thursday | European Parliament 99 problems The so-called “Piepergate” affair adds to a growing list of potential problems for von der Leyen as she seeks a second term. It comes just days after POLITICO revealed that the … Read more
They were supposed to be under lock and key, in a secure storage room deep inside Europol’s headquarters in The Hague. But a clutch of highly sensitive files containing the personal information of top law enforcement executives went missing last summer. Europe’s law enforcement agency has been mired in a whodunit ever since. According to … Read more
Although there’s a diplomatic reshuffle every year, this time was more complicated than usual because of the EU election, officials said. By the fall, the EU will (hopefully) have decided who will lead the European Commission, Council, Parliament, and European External Action Service (EEAS). But first, this week the Commission is set to sign off … Read more
Schulz told POLITICO’s EU Election Playbook allowing that to happen was “in my eyes a mistake.” “That would have been a contribution to deepen the feeling that Europe is … democratic … and not a construction where everything is at the end decided behind closed doors,” he said. Five years later, von der Leyen wants … Read more
A conservative Estonian activist made history last fall by proposing to his girlfriend in the European Parliament. Yet while Kuldar Lepp, 26, and Marta Schönberg, 18, were the first to get engaged in such a manner, they are hardly the first love story to begin in the house of European democracy. Lawmakers, assistants, lawyers, and … Read more
In Belgium, the land of chocolate, waffles and exorbitant rates of taxation, the expat tax dream is over. This month, the country’s special expatriate tax regime — available to people hired from abroad and which was introduced in 1983 — came to an end. From now on, only those earning over €75,000 gross (the exception is people … Read more
