Senior members set to decide whether to vote to expel Hungarian party leader Tamás Deutsch.
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The EU’s €140M ‘zombie committee’ faces pressure to reform
Critics argue that the European Economic and Social Committee is an outdated and expensive relic.
Von der Leyen faces unrest in own party ranks
Commission president too keen to be green, center-right critics say.
Letter to EU telecom and trade ministers and to European Commissioners Thierry Breton, Margrethe Vestager and Valdis Dombrovskis
European Parliament clashes with Merkel over rule of law in budget talks
Lawmakers criticize German chancellor over what they see as plans to soften rule-of-law demands in budget deal.
The EU’s most powerful Germans
The election of Ursula von der Leyen as European Commission president was seen by many in Brussels as the naked confirmation of Germany’s political heft in the European Union. The truth is that the country has plenty of other arrows in its quiver.
How coronavirus defeated Europe’s free marketeers
One of Europe’s most prominent victims of the coronavirus pandemic has been its adherence to market-driven economics.
Germany under pressure to lift coronavirus border closures
Pressure is mounting on Germany to end coronavirus-related border restrictions, with neighboring countries warning that the measures threaten European unity.
Ursula von der Leyen’s disaster management
On paper, Ursula von der Leyen could not be better cast for this moment in EU history: Brussels-born; trilingual in German, French and English; a three-time Cabinet minister; the first ever female European Commission president; and — a Hollywood scriptwriter could hardly dream it up — a trained medical doctor with a master’s degree in public health leading the response to the coronavirus pandemic.
POLITICO Brussels Playbook: Boris Johnson in hospital — Whose Marshall Plan is it anyway? — Corona in the camps
BORIS JOHNSON IN HOSPITAL WITH COVID-19: The British PM was admitted to hospital overnight as “a precautionary step,” a Downing Street spokeswoman said, as he “continues to have persistent symptoms of coronavirus 10 days after testing positive.”
