{"id":7691,"date":"2024-07-25T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/?p=7691"},"modified":"2024-07-24T16:17:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T14:17:59","slug":"european-elections-2024-new-balance-of-might-in-the-european-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/nordzucker-post\/european-elections-2024-new-balance-of-might-in-the-european-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"European elections 2024: New balance of might in the European Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"py-4 text-xl leading-8\">\n\tIn June, around 350 million people in the EU had the opportunity to cast their vote and play an active role in shaping Europe&#8217;s democracy.<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In Germany, 64.74 per cent of eligible voters exercised their right to vote, while the figure for the EU as a whole was 51.05 per cent, a small increase compared to the 2019 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u2018European People&#8217;s Party\u2019 (EPP), led by Ursula von der Leyen, strengthened its position in the European Parliament, while the \u2018Greens\u2019 and the liberal \u2018Renew Europe Alliance\u2019 suffered losses. The EPP, Social Democrats (S&amp;D), Liberals and also the Greens stood together in favour of Ursula von der Leyen&#8217;s re-election as EU Commission President on 18 July. In contrast, the French Republicans and also the MEPs of the Fratelli d&#8217;Italia of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni spoke out against von der Leyen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Commission President had emphasised \u2018prosperity and competitiveness\u2019 as the direction for the next five years before the plenary session of Parliament. The Green Deal would become the \u2018Clean Industrial Deal\u2019, with \u2018technological neutrality and innovation\u2019. Although the phase-out of combustion engines will be scrutinised again, the goal of climate neutrality by 2050 remains unalterable. It remains to be seen what concrete effects this will have on European legislation and the filling of important EU posts. The new Commission should be confirmed by the end of the year at the latest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fundamental legislation in areas such as environmental and energy policy, as well as economic and industrial policy, will be decided in Europe and will affect our companies in the Nordzucker countries. The new Common Agricultural Policy from 2027 is of particular importance: the framework conditions for sugar beet cultivation and the level playing field between the EU member states depend on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peace, freedom and the common internal market as the basis of prosperity are the great achievements of the European Union. Nordzucker will continue to work to preserve these values and represent their interests in realising the corporate strategy of sustainability, excellence and growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Germany, 64.74 per cent of eligible voters exercised their right to vote, while the figure for the EU as a whole was 51.05 per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7691"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7701,"href":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions\/7701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nordzucker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}