Stefan Berger
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Stefan Berger
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MEP 🇩🇪🇪🇺 📍| Sprecher der CDU NRW im EU-Parlament 📢 | Ausschuss für Wirtschaft und Währung 💶| Crypto, Web3, Digitalisierung, Finanzen, Wirtschaft
Thank you to Chancellor Merz and our friends in Germany for their swift assistance in caring for Americans affected by the Ebola outbreak. We're grateful for your partnership.
The EU’s six largest economies want to break political deadlocks preventing the bloc from creating a U.S.-style financial market in a crunch meeting later this month. politico.eu/article/eu-sup…
Europa und die Ukraine wollen Frieden, doch die russischen Angriffe der letzten Nacht „sprechen eine andere Sprache“, kritisiert Friedrich Merz beim Karlspreis. Zu Putins Schröder-Vorschlag sagt der Kanzler: „Wir Europäer entscheiden selbst, wer für uns spricht. Niemand anders.“
In August, Iceland will hold a referendum on whether to open new accession negotiations with the EU. It offers Norway a chance to put the issue back on its own political agenda. 🔗 politico.eu/article/norway…
Even if RN wins in France, France is not leaving the EU and the main European integration agenda will continue. It will likely become a repeat of Meloni: attacking Brussels on national television, while supporting deeper European coordination in Brussels when economic and strategic reality demands it. France sends around 53–54% of its goods exports to the EU. Leaving the single market would mean damaging its own industrial base. The core European agenda is no longer ideological. It is economic necessity: → Capital Markets Union → A single regulatory framework for companies → Energy sovereignty through nuclear, renewables, grids and storage → A more independent European defence system → Joint procurement and a stronger European defence industryRN may change the tone. But Europe’s problem is still fragmentation.And fragmentation is exactly why Europe needs deeper integration, not less.
“I would expect the president to apply pressure” on China over Iran when he goes to Beijing, a US official told reporters in a briefing. That will not be easy. Trump will in effect have to ask Xi for help, which a) is a sign of weakness, b) will come at a cost, what will US have to give for that help, and c) what if China says “no.” Then Trump summit be another casualty of the war. ft.com/content/09c917… via @ft
74% of Brits want to rejoin the EU, according to a new @thetimes poll. That is the highest percentage we have seen yet, will Starmer listen?
Trump: «Xi Jinping è un uomo buono e intelligente». Ricapitolando. In questi mesi il presidente degli Stati Uniti ha lodato Putin, Kim Jong-un, Orbán, Netanyahu, Lukashenko, Xi Jinping. E ha attaccato: Papa Leone XIV, Meloni, Macron, Starmer, Merz, Sanchez e la NATO.
Expanding joint EU debt issuance would save governments billions of euros in borrowing costs, former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta tells POLITICO in an interview. politi.co/4d30voM