European Politics

Antonio Filosa, Stellantis’s new CEO (which oversees Peugeot, Citroën, Opel, Fiat, Chrysler and Jeep), urged the European Commission to take urgent action to protect the European auto industry from rising Chinese competition. He called current EU emissions targets “unrealistic” and said excessive regulation is driving up costs for small cars, collapsing volumes and endangering the sector. Filosa made the remarks in interviews ahead of the IAA Munich show; he became CEO in June and must turn around Stellantis, which faces U.S. tariffs, EU overcapacity, and competition from low-cost Chinese brands. Other industry leaders (including John Elkann, Luca de Meo and BMW’s Oliver Zipse) have made similar warnings about Europe’s emissions rules and the risk of the industry shrinking.

July 2009, central and eastern European leaders – including former presidents Václav Havel, Valdas Adamkus, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Lech Wałęsa – signed an open letter to President Obama.

Looking at the many challenges that keep coming our way, and especially since 2025, I looked for an overview hence the WEF report. Also, I was interested in what we as Europe are actually doing or preparing to counter those challenges.

This should be news all over! Helsinki as a Rolmodel.

The European Union’s chief diplomat has called for all sides in the Middle East conflict to “step back” and return to negotiations after the U.S. struck key Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday.

(Yes this is a repost from Reddit)

https://www.politico.eu/article/afd-officially-right-wing-extremist-group-germanys-intel-agency-says/

A US think tank that recently opened a Brussels office to lobby for aggressively lower taxes is received with open arms by the Commission. But who is behind the organisation, and who funds it? The Transparency Register fails to reveal dark money flows – in the Tax Foundation’s case from US right-wing libertarian sources – and as such clearly needs a make-over.

By refusing to apply pressure on President Vučić, the EU is emboldening the Serbian government. If Brussels is serious about supporting democracy in the Western Balkans, it must empower the Serbian people—not their authoritarian rulers.

This is an initiative to ban conversion therapy in the EU, if you are an EU citizen please consider signing it.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25796224

Article by Eric Gujer for the NZZ. The linked original is in German; here follows a machine translation.