News from the Jacques Delors Centre

Martijn van den Brink discovered his interest in the EU and EU law mostly by chance during his time at university, but he has been working on EU issues ever since. His current research is focused on the EU Legislature, the Court of Justice, EU citizenship, and religious discrimination. 

In a Bloomberg article, Policy Fellow Sebastian Mack speaks on the ambitions for the new European taxonomy, including fighting greenwashing, encouraging private investment in sustainable initiatives, and how these ambitions can be reached.  

In the Financial Time's Europe Express, Thu Nguyen and Nils Redeker's new policy brief on the European Semester and Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) is discussed. 

Sebastian Mack and Thu Nguyen discuss the EU Commission's proposal to classify gas and nuclear power as climate-friendly.

In an interview in Deutschlandfunk for "Europa heute", Deputy Director Nicole Koenig spoke about the Strategic Compass and the enduring gap between ambition and reality in EU security policy. 

The new German government has shown interest in relaunching discussions about the Banking Union in the EU. In an interview in L’Agefi, Sebastian Mack discusses the hurdles the important project of European integration is facing. 

In an interview with the Groupe d’études géopolitiques, Pascal Lamy, coordinator of the Jacques Delors network (Paris, Berlin, Brussels), spoke on strategic autonomy, European sovereignty and integration. 

The Delors Institutes in Paris, Berlin (Jacques Delors Centre) and Brussels (Europe Jacques Delors) are saddened by the death of the President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli and express sincere condolences to his family. 

In an interview with Bayerischer Rundfunk, Policy Fellow Thu Nguyen speaks with Jakob Mayr about Macron's next steps as Council president in the ongoing rule of law conflict. 

The Börsen-Zeitung discusses Sebastian Mack's latest paper. He sees no evidence for the gloomy forecasts from the banking industry that introducing the output floor in Europe will result in higher financing costs and declining investment.

With a new German government now in power, the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union starting on 1 January, and the upcoming presidential and legislative elections in France, the future of Europe and the one of Franco-German relations remains to be written. 

Sophie Pornschlegel and Yann Wernert discuss to how Macron will use the French EU Council Presidency in 2022 as a stage for his election campaign.