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The next Head of the European Commission in Warsaw needs to be a political heavyweight, argues Piotr Maciej Kaczyński.

Final battlelines drawn as talks over EU’s future farm policy enter home stretch On Wednesday EU farm ministers and MEPs were due to hold concurrent talks in a bid to thrash out a deal on the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Press Association 26 May 2021 After months of negotiations, it is hoped that the new CAP will be agreed at meetings involving the European Commission, Parliament and Member States, known as ‘trilogues’. The deal could release about €54bn a year in agriculture s...

Big Five tech giants spent €19m lobbying EU in 2020 Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO. The report also reveals that three of Facebooks five registered lobbyists were working in the EU institutions - until just before they joined the big social media company (Photo: European Commission) Brussels, 1. Mar, 07:02 The increased regulatory scrutiny of tech giants such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft has triggered a rise in lobbying by these companies in Brussels, and, accordingly, an exponential g...