German development minister Svenja Schulze is travelling to the World Bank Group’s spring meetings in Washington with a clear mission: G7 and donor countries should form a food security alliance to tackle the global food crisis. EURACTIV Germany reports.
While calls to reconsider the green goals the EU has set for the food sector have increased since Russia attacked Ukraine, German farm minister Cem Özdemir has stressed sustainability efforts should not be curtailed.
Germany says “no” to the European Commission’s proposal to stop sales of new diesel and gasoline cars from the middle of the next decade. The country’s opinion was expressed through the voice of its Minister of Transport, Volker Wissing, who recently spoke during an informal meeting with ministers from other European countries near Paris.
Germany has put a halt to the certification of the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline in response to Russia’s recognition of the two breakaway regions in the Ukrainian Donbas and announced that it would revaluate the certification procedure.
*Updated with statements by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, final declaration of the EU-Africa summit
This article is part of our special report What to expect in EU policymaking in 2022.
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany on Sunday welcomed a plan by the European Union to label some natural gas energy projects as “green” investments, but stressed its opposition to a proposal to do the same for nuclear power projects.
The head of Poland’s ruling party Jarosław said on Friday (24 December) that Germany was trying to turn the European Union into a federal “German Fourth Reich”.
Germany on Monday became the latest country to ban Britons from entering as it added the UK to its equivalent of the red list over rising omicron cases.
Under a Liberal-led finance ministry, Germany will take a hard line on EU fiscal policy and reject calls from southern EU countries to relax fiscal rules. However, the business-friendly FDP is open to compromise. EURACTIV Germany reports.
