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DRAFT REPORT on drones and new systems of warfare – the EU’s need to adapt to be fit for today’s security challenges
Committee on Security and Defence
Reinis Pozņaks

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Kirk, un allié influent du président américain qui avait créé Turning Point USA à l'âge de 18 ans, a été abattu alors qu'il prenait la parole lors d'un événement sur un campus de l'Utah.

Die EU ist Kasachstans größter Handels- und Investitionspartner, muss jedoch die Zusammenarbeit in den Bereichen Umwelt und Digitalisierung verstärken.

Thursday 11 September

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Verteidigung dominierte Ursula von der Leyens Rede zur Lage der Union – im Mittelpunkt standen Drohnen und eine Allianz mit der Ukraine.

Opinion on the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 - all sections
Committee on Security and Defence
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann

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Das EU-Parlament hat den Bericht des Agrarausschusses zur Zukunft der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik angenommen – und damit bereits zum zweiten Mal in diesem Jahr ein Signal gesetzt, dass Kürzungen bei Agrarsubventionen nicht akzeptiert werden.

EU-Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen hat in ihrer jährlichen Rede zur Lage der Union strengere Regeln für die Nutzung sozialer Medien durch Kinder und Jugendliche signalisiert.

Nach dem Eindringen russischer Drohnen in den polnischen Luftraum hat Warschau Artikel 4 des NATO-Vertrags aktiviert und damit offizielle Bündniskonsultationen eingeleitet.

EU-Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen hat ihre Rede zur Lage der Union genutzt, um die Gefahr eines möglichen militärischen Konflikts mit Russland zu betonen – und zugleich den Abschied Europas vom Selbstverständnis als reine Wirtschaftsmacht angedeutet.

Das Gericht der Europäischen Union hat eine Entscheidung der EU-Kommission gekippt, mit der 2023 Aufsichtsgebühren für Meta und TikTok nach dem Digital Services Act eingeführt wurden. Die Richter bemängelten, dass Brüssel das Verfahren formell falsch aufgesetzt hatte.

In der heutigen Ausgabe: Von der Leyen zur Lage der Union; Russische Drohnen über Polen; Lecornu neuer Premier in Frankreich; Paris und Berlin drängen auf Lukoil-Sanktionen; Dänemark sucht Kompromiss fürs 2040-Klimaziel; Neue Machtbalance zwischen Kommission und Parlament; Prag schickt Müll zurück nach Bayern.

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Responsibility for tax expenditures: In the United Kingdom (UK) government ministers introduce and amend tax reliefs including tax expenditures. They are a joint responsibility: HM Treasury takes strategic oversight while HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) administers them, including their monitoring, maintenance and evaluation.
Their number and scale: Tax expenditures in the United Kingdom result in a considerable release of fiscal resources by central government, little known and off-budget. The official estimated cost comes to 7.6 per cent of GDP in 2023-24, equivalent to a quarter of total tax revenue collected, although that cost is only based on the generally larger 107 of the 344 tax expenditures identified where costs were estimated for that year. Since 2020 significantly fuller listings of tax expenditures with many more estimated costs and explanations have been released annually.
Benchmarking: This term is not used in UK official documents. Tax expenditures are generally described as ‘non-structural’ tax reliefs as opposed to ‘structural’ ones. They make up about one-third of all acknowledged tax reliefs. Little is provided on the criteria for distinguishing the two, which do not appear to have greatly changed in many years. The classification is still not sufficiently clearly formulated, especially as it is acknowledged that many tax reliefs contain both structural and non-structural elements.
Transparency: Much more needs to be done to improve the UK’s transparency score with greater openness to public discussion and response given its current ranking of 39th out of 105 assessed countries, scoring 51.3 out of 100, in the Global Tax Expenditures Transparency Index (GTETI) (Redonda et al. 2024).
Complex landscape: The plans to provide a fuller accounting of tax expenditures have been markedly ambitious in relation to previous progress. While there has been substantial improvement, their actual implementation has been at best variable. On several issues fuller accounts have been provided in the latest reports. Further analysis needs to be carried out and published assessing the impact of tax expenditures and their interaction with other government interventions instead of keeping them within their own silo.
Evaluation challenges: It is not clear how much systematic evaluation is being carried out within the government. Recent reviews based on published guidelines are improving the extent and quality of fiscal data. The release of the evaluation plans is encouraging, as it signals that further work is likely in this area. The continuing contrast with the regular and published scrutiny of public spending is still emphasised by external analysts.
Distributional and behavioural impact: Regular reporting on the behavioural and distributional impacts of tax expenditures by HM Treasury or HMRC is limited. Official consideration of behavioural responses is generally confined to tackling issues of exploitation and abuse of tax expenditures, and there is less on examining and reporting on their value for money or the broader social, economic, environmental and political impact of reliefs and any options for change. Who gets what and how with what effect on the distribution of resources, individually and across society, is mostly neglected.
Fiscal Sustainability: There appears little government recognition of the fact that tax expenditures effectively have automatic priority because of their pre-distribution before the regular budgetary process allocating public spending. In consequence the government has not given sufficient attention to the workings of tax expenditures and the results of changes in uptake and costs in them. The effects of their interactions with public spending measures and their impacts on the overall economy have also been neglected.
Maintaining momentum for greater openness: How much the momentum for providing greater accountability and openness will be maintained amid continuing staffing cuts, resource constraints and competing policy priorities is unclear. Long-term resistance to opening up the area may not have disappeared. Progress may well depend on how much extra-governmental pressure is maintained by, for example, NAO, with its series of valuable scrutinising reports, and by parliamentary select committees, thinktanks and other groups and individuals. Meanwhile many bodies and groups that benefit from existing tax expenditures are active in defending them and opposing any reduction, especially behind the scenes.
Policy recommendations: There needs to be fuller and open recognition by HM Treasury and HMRC of tax expenditures as policy interventions that merit wider scrutiny and discussion just as other policy measures. Their conjunction with these policies also deserves closer examination.
The strong case for a regular tax expenditure budget is strengthened by the present lack of specific budgetary restraint on tax expenditures. This has resulted in limited control of costs and awareness of other effects, although the increased public accounting annually may now be leading to greater official awareness and closer management.
Such democratic accountability would help to increase knowledge and understanding among a wider and larger audience outside government. That could enable a clearer view of tax expenditures as instruments of policy and encourage a broader debate on their impacts and options for change.

Adrian Sinfield is Professor Emeritus of Social Policy, University of Edinburgh.

Der umstrittene Platzabtausch bei Weltmeister McLaren in Monza bleibt noch einige Zeit das grosse Thema. Bei einer Blitz-Umfrage auf Blick-Online waren bei knapp 7000 Stimmen über 60 Prozent dafür, dass Piastri den 2. Platz nicht hätte abgeben müssen.

Schwere Zeiten – die Welt muss ohne Andres Ambühl klarkommen. Natürlich nur in den Stadien. Aber wie sah diese Welt aus, bevor «Büeli» beim HCD seine Karriere startete?

Die exklusive Reise versprach Michelin-Stern-Mahlzeiten und eine Feier am Nordpol. Der Trip, mit Kabinenpreisen zwischen 70'000 und 200'000 US-Dollar pro Person, ist aber kolossal gescheitert.

Nächste Woche an der IAA in München präsentiert Opel mit dem kleinen Corsa GSE Vision Gran Turismo grosses Autokino. Die atemberaubende Studie mit 800 Elektro-PS soll nach ihrer Premiere eine Hauptrolle im Videogame «Gran Turismo 7» spielen.

In Castro de Herville hätte die 16. Etappe der Vuelta enden sollen. Hätte – denn eine propalästinensische Demonstration macht den Organisatoren einen Strich durch die Rechnung.

Der 33-jährige Surftrainer Jacob Mellish aus Edinburgh erlebt auf den Malediven einen Schockmoment. Als er wegen einer Welle von seinem Surfbrett fällt, findet er sich mitten in einem Hai-Schwarm wieder.