TAG: Certification and standards
Bulgarian PM hints country may miss eurozone entry date
Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov on Saturday said his country may fumble the January 1, 2025,...
8 months ago
Europe must quicken green efforts after election, EU climate chief says
STRASBOURG — The next crop of European Union officials must accelerate the push to slash planet-warming pollution and prepare for an extreme weather surge. That’s EU climate chief Wopke Hoekstra's message after scientists’ latest warning that the Continen...
6 months ago
EU hints at relaxing parts of global bank rules in face of US delays
BRUSSELS ― The EU has signaled it could relax the way it pushes through controversial international banking standards if it believes that's what's needed to better compete with the rest of the world.The European Commission “stands ready to act if necessar...
6 months ago
More cash, less screen time: 5 policy takeaways from Macron’s Sorbonne speech
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron outlined his priorities for the future of the European Union on Thursday in an almost two-hour stump speech with about six weeks to go until the European election in June. The marathon address at Sorbonne Universit...
5 months ago
Is Brexit Britain about to turn into Switzerland — without the fondue?
It’s the one thing nobody wanted to happen. Now it might happen anyway.Brussels hates its relationship with Switzerland: A complex tartiflette of over 120 different bilateral agreements that seems to constantly be up for renegotiation.When Brexit talks be...
2 months ago
Why your coffee got so damn expensive
Life used to be so simple. And cheap.Remember the good old days when you could pop into your local café for an espresso for just €1? Italians do. In Rome or Milan or Naples, the morning ritual would see workers hurry into their neighborhood bar and gulp d...
2 months ago
Forget Olympic athletes — will Parisians ever want to swim in the Seine?
PARIS — In the minds of French officials, the plan was ambitious but simple: Clean up the Seine for the 2024 Olympics and convince the world that everyone could enjoy a carefree dip in the notoriously murky river next summer.Well, Olympic athletes did ult...
2 months ago
EU Commission mulls delaying budget proposal until after German election
BRUSSELS ― The European Commission is considering postponing setting out plans for its €1.2 trillion seven-year budget until after next year's German national election.With Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats trailing in the polls behind the Christi...
1 month ago
Iran pays millions in ransom to end massive cyberattack on banks, officials say
A massive cyberattack that hit Iran last month threatened the stability of its banking system and forced the country's regime to agree to a ransom deal of millions of dollars, people familiar with the case say.An Iranian firm paid at least $3 million in r...
1 month ago
Europe’s Draghi report unleashed: These are the 5 things to watch
BRUSSELS ― Mario Draghi was the man hailed as saving the eurozone during the sovereign debt crisis when president of the European Central Bank. This time his challenge may be greater still: Stop Europe falling behind the rest of the world.European Commiss...
1 month ago
The EU was built on red tape. Now it wants to slash it.
BRUSSELS ― For decades, the European Union loved to regulate. Now, it wants to do the opposite.Where once, the "Brussels Effect" saw the EU set laws and standards the rest of the world couldn't help but follow, soon there will be a European commissioner f...
3 weeks ago
Ed Miliband is Britain’s minister for good vibes
LIVERPOOL, England — Never mind the fiscal blackhole, here’s Ed Miliband.A rainy Labour Party conference in Liverpool was haunted this week by the specter of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ imminent, cost-cutting Budget. It was overshadowed by a row over top go...
3 weeks ago
Europe’s financial ambitions slam into German opposition
An Italian bank making a big move to buy into a German bank sounds like exactly the sort of tie-up Europe's leaders have spent years crying out for, so the EU can rear more home-grown heavyweight corporate champions to compete with rivals from the U.S. an...
3 weeks ago
British government split over new-look Brexit deal
LONDON — Keir Starmer heads to Brussels Wednesday on a mission fraught with political danger: the prospect of a new youth mobility scheme.For some, the revived plan would be a joyous breakthrough after years of testy relations between the European Union a...
2 weeks ago