TAG: EU funding
EU confident of Orbán U-turn on allowing money to Ukraine
BRUSSELS ― Budapest has signaled to the EU that it is ready to lift its opposition to funding Ukrain...
8 months ago
Orbán’s Ukraine compromise would allow him to hold EU to ransom every year
BRUSSELS ― Hungary has signaled it could end its opposition to using the EU budget to send money to...
8 months ago
EU mulls ‘Industrial’ twin for Green Deal as election pressure bites
BRUSSELS — Move over Green Deal, there’s a new buzzword in town — and just in time for the EU electi...
8 months ago
Ursula’s empty green Davos promise
Almost a year ago to the day, Ursula von der Leyen traveled to the snowy environs of Davos to make a...
8 months ago
Risk of ‘lost decade’ as EU countries face economic cliff edge
BRUSSELS — The year 2026 could be a defining moment for the European economy.The double blow of the introduction of reformed EU spending rules and the European Commission turning off the money taps may leave a black hole in the budgets of highly indebted...
6 months ago
EU rebuffs solar pleas as sector goes broke, document shows
BRUSSELS — Goodbye and goodnight.That’s the European Union's veiled message to its dying solar manufacturers in a draft declaration seen by POLITICO. Chinese mass manufacturing has brought Europe's solar makers to their knees and had prompted them to turn...
6 months ago
Missing: A Socialist Green Deal vision
BRUSSELS — A specter is haunting the European Union: The specter of the Green Deal. And Europe’s Socialists are running scared. Over the past year, an alliance has formed to exorcize this specter: Populists and conservatives, nationalists and farmers, Fre...
6 months ago
Sauna festivals and dance marathons: Estonia knows how to spend EU money
Estonia will allocate part of the EU money received through the Just Transition Fund to finance activities such as a sauna festival, an axe-throwing center and a dance marathon.The Just Transition Fund, one of the European Union’s key tools to support reg...
2 months ago
The man who could help Meloni build bridges with Europe
BRUSSELS ― If Giorgia Meloni wants to mend fences with the EU (again), she might have found the perfect man for the job.The Italian prime minister, fresh from her latest spat with Brussels, during which she was one of only two national leaders to refuse t...
2 months ago
Von der Leyen announces €35B EU loan for Ukraine
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Friday announced a plan in Kyiv to provide up to €35 billion as an EU loan to Ukraine."Relentless Russian attacks means Ukraine needs continued EU support," she said. "This is another major EU contribu...
3 weeks ago
The EU’s plan to make housing more affordable
BRUSSELS — The European Commission wants to make housing more affordable by squeezing more cash out of European Union funding programs and revising rules, according to a draft policy document seen by POLITICO.Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has...
1 week ago