Ska Keller: Berlin’s call to reform Dublin ‘better late than never’
The recent German state elections saw an increase in support for right-wing parties, on the back of concerns raised by the refugee crisis. Ska Keller MEP detailed to EurActiv.de plans to present a...
View ArticleElmar Brok: ‘The idea that the EU will not advance any further is false’
EU treaty changes are laborious and come with a great deal of uncertainty. As a result, the European Parliament is assessing an own-initiative report that intends to assess what reforms of the...
View ArticleGraf Lambsdorff: EU ‘clearly went too far’ in Brexit concessions
EXCLUSIVE / The European Council agreed in February to a number of reforms proposed by Britain to try and counter the risk of the UK leaving the bloc in a June referendum. Alexander Graf Lambsdorff...
View ArticleGerman MEP: ‘Governments blame ECB to cover own political failures’
The European Central Bank's (ECB) controversial policy of ultra-low interest rates continues to draw criticism and German politicians in particular have demanded its president, Mario Draghi, bring them...
View ArticleHändel: German welfare proposal ‘goes against the spirit of European unity’
At the end of April, German Minister of Labour Andrea Nahles presented a bill that would lock out EU citizens from the country's welfare system. Die Linke’s Thomas Händel spoke with EurActiv Germany...
View ArticleWieland: ‘Spitzenkandidat genie is well and truly out of the bottle’
In November 2015, the European Parliament supported a reform to the EU electoral law that is intended to make the European elections more attractive. EurActiv Germany spoke to one of the legislature's...
View ArticleGiegold: ‘Many member states avoid European transparency like the plague’
EXCLUSIVE / Back in 2014, Jean-Claude Juncker prioritised transparency as a crucial point of his Commission's mandate. EurActiv Germany spoke with Sven Giegold about the future of transparency in the...
View ArticleLeinen: Shock of Brexit would draw EU closer together
As the UK's vote on its EU membership looms on the horizon, EurActiv Germany spoke to Jo Leinen MEP about what might happen if Brexit happened and what kind of relationship the UK could expect with the...
View ArticleKaufmann: Brexit means EU ‘has a mountain to climb ahead of it’
A debate about the future development of the EU has raged across the continent since the UK's Brexit vote. While many believe this is the beginning of the end, others, like Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann MEP,...
View ArticleBütikofer: Green parties ‘are not so limited in our reach as we once were!’
Pan-European polls do not paint a pleasant picture for the continent's green parties: if elections were to be held today, they would only win a quarter of the 50 seats they currently hold in the...
View ArticleALDE president: ‘We can be the strongest European party’
The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) is traditionally the third strongest political group in the European Parliament, but in the 2014 elections, it suffered big losses, dropping...
View ArticleCharles Goerens: Associate citizenship for Brits is ‘an offer, not an...
Many fear that the UK's decision to leave the EU will strip British citizens of their right to free movement around the bloc. EurActiv Germany spoke to the MEP trying to protect that right.
View ArticleAfter a Decade of EU Pragmatism, It Is Time to Talk About Democracy Again
During the crisis-ridden last decade, the EU has stumbled into a new intergovernmentalism presented as an apparently pragmatic problem-solving approach. But side-lining the European Parliament is not...
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