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Les Européens à la fois contents et méfiants du revirement de Trump sur l’Ukraine
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The European Commission president’s trip comes on the heels of an announcement by Germany’s Rheinmetall that it plans two new factories in Bulgaria, making the country Europe’s largest gunpowder manufacturer.
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The asylum agency coordinates the implementation of the EU’s migration policy among member countries, including asylum applications and deportations.
Members of the European Parliament who scrutinized the agency’s 2023 accounts wrote that the legislature “strongly deplores the weaknesses in the management of conflicts of interest within the agency.”
The approval of the accounts is non-binding but allows the Parliament to issue recommendations to EU bodies on how to handle their budgets.
Following an exchange with the agency’s executive director, Nina Gregori, lawmakers on the Committee on Budgetary Control voted to greenlight the accounts, albeit with a formal reprimand and demands for changes to the agency’s management. The accounts still need to be ratified in the plenary in October.
Lawmakers recommended that the agency establish an independent internal ethics body, strengthen its whistle-blowing protection rules, and publish an anonymized version of the OLAF report.
The Parliament also instructed the agency to establish an exit interview program to identify why there is such high turnover among staff, and to report back to lawmakers on the results during the 2024 accounts discharge procedure.
MEPs vowed to continue their close scrutiny of the agency, especially of its implementation of the recommendations of its supervisory board. Despite the findings of the OLAF report, the board decided not to launch disciplinary procedures against top management and opted for structural reforms within the agency.
Green MEP Erik Marquardt, the lead negotiator on the file, did not reply to a request for comment.
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Während die Staats- und Regierungschefs bei der UN-Vollversammlung in New York reden, bleibt Kanzler Friedrich Merz in Berlin – und verteidigt im Bundestag seinen Kurs. In der Generaldebatte setzt er auf Wachstum, Reformen und Kompromissfähigkeit, doch Streitpunkte wie Migration und Technologieoffenheit zeigen die Bruchlinien mit der SPD.
Gleichzeitig sorgt ein internes Papier aus dem Wirtschaftsministerium für Aufsehen: Ministerin Katherina Reiche muss ihren Etat um 17 Prozent kürzen. Betroffen sind vor allem Innovations- und Förderprogramme, während der Mittelstand und Start-ups sogar mehr Unterstützung erhalten sollen. Tom Schmidtgen hat die Details.Mehr Analysen und Hintergründe findet ihr auch im Newsletter Industrie & Handel.
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