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3 days ago | 
politico.eu | Max Griera |Giovanna Faggionato
Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Tuesday she is ready to abandon her country's traditionally thrifty stance on the EU budget in the face of the threat posed by Russia. “Last time we had a leading role in the frugal four. Next time we'll have a leading role in another group," Frederiksen said Tuesday, referring to the customarily frugal alliance consisting of Denmark, Sweden, Austria and the Netherlands.
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1 week ago | 
subscriber.politicopro.com | Mari Eccles |Max Griera
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1 week ago | 
politico.eu | Kathryn Carlson |Max Griera
The European Commission plans to make it easier for banks to invest in resold debt, known as “securitization,” under draft proposals to revise rules for the practice seen by POLITICO. The Commission will publish its revision of the EU’s securitization rules in a legislative package on June 17. This will include changes to the Capital Requirements Regulation, the Securitization Regulation, and two secondary laws, the Liquidity Coverage Requirement Delegated Act and the Solvency II Delegated Act.
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Max Griera
Right-wing Member of the European Parliament Fernand Kartheiser plans to visit Moscow early next week by invitation of Russia’s State Duma to talk about Ukraine, the Luxembourgish MEP announced on Friday. Kartheiser told POLITICO that, in addition to parliamentarians, he will also meet with Russia’s deputy foreign minister and the foreign ministry’s director for bilateral relations while in Moscow on Monday and Tuesday.
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Max Griera
BRUSSELS ― Belgian security agents bugged a corporate box at the RSC Anderlecht football stadium that was being used by Chinese tech giant Huawei to schmooze members of the European Parliament. They also listened into other conversations involving one of Huawei’s leading lobbyists, including in his car.
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Mari Eccles |Max Griera
BRUSSELS ― A far-right MEP’s question to the European Commission was partly drawn up by a lobbyist — which was discovered because no one removed the document's track changes. When Jana Nagyová, of the group Patriots for Europe, wrote to other members of the European Parliament to ask for their support in signing her question, the attachment revealed the input of Rob Vierhout — a vice-president at ethanol producer Alcogroup.
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Max Griera
Belgian authorities on Thursday withdrew a request to lift the immunity of European parliamentarian Giusi Princi relating to an investigation into a cash-for-influence scandal connected to Chinese firm Huawei. Thursday’s withdrawal came less than 24 hours after the request was announced by European Parliament President Roberta Metsola.
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Max Griera |James Fernyhough
Emmanuel Macron is on a collision course with his own allies in Brussels after he called for ethical supply chain rules to be scrapped — a cause first championed by the far right. On Monday, the French president stunned many when he said he wanted to repeal the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, a European Union law that requires companies to monitor their entire global supply chain for human rights abuses and environmental damage.
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Max Griera
A dispute over Gaza appears to have sparked a fight in the European Parliament on Wednesday, with a left-wing staffer and a center-right MEP accusing each other of aggression — and the Parliament’s initial assessment siding with the MEP’s version of events. A staffer from left-wing Swedish party Vänsterpartiet on Wednesday accused a Swedish European People’s Party lawmaker, Alice Teodorescu, of physically attacking them.
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Max Griera
BRUSSELS ― Germany’s Nazi past should serve as a warning to Europe’s conservatives as they wrestle with how far to rely on support from the far right to push through their policies, the EU’s center-right leader said.
