TAG: Elections in Europe
Von der Leyen expected to announce candidacy for second term on February 19
BERLIN — Ursula von der Leyen will most likely announce her candidacy for a second term as European...
8 months ago
2023: The year in figures and charts
2023 was marked by crisis, transition and conflict.As the war in Ukraine dragged into its second yea...
8 months ago
EU conservatives are fueling far right with Green Deal crusade, Spain’s deputy PM warns
Europe’s center-right leaders assailing green policies are only feeding the rise of a Trump-style po...
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
Labour slashes green spending pledge in major U-turn
LONDON — Keir Starmer's Labour Party U-turned on its green investment plans after months of speculation.The party on Thursday ditched its totemic pledge to spend £28 billion a year on green policies — slashing those spending plans by nearly 75 percent.In...
6 months ago
France’s fiscal woes cast a long shadow over Macron’s EU ambitions
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron's lofty European leadership ambitions are once again getting a reality check. The French government is scrambling to make savings and reassure financial markets after official figures this week showed that public...
6 months ago
The EU compromise machine is breaking — and everyone’s blaming Germany
EU policymaking is going off the rails as the election nears.The main culprit? Germany’s partisan feuds.From the outside, Brussels’ lawmaking can seem overly procedural and institutionalized. But in recent weeks, drama has riven the EU institutions, with...
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
Expect Russia to do ‘whatever possible’ to reassert influence in Bulgaria, outgoing PM warns
Bulgaria's outgoing Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov spent his mandate trying to boot out the Russians, and has no doubt that Moscow will redouble efforts to recover its influence now his administration has collapsed. Denkov, who stepped down on Tuesday, tol...
6 months ago
How a group of elderly Swiss women could take the UK out of the European Court
LONDON — In politics, timing is everything. And the European Court of Human Rights’ shock ruling on climate targets this week could hardly have been more explosive for a British political landscape already gripped by election fever. In a landmark ruling T...
6 months ago
Macron, Le Maire feud flares up amid France’s fiscal woes
PARIS — France’s Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire is amping up the volume on the need to tackle the country's deteriorating public finances. But his strident calls for deep public spending cuts are quickly getting on the French president’s nerves as the s...
6 months ago
Bullets not bees: EU ditches green focus ahead of June election
BRUSSELS — A quick scan of a leaked EU priority list for the rest of the decade reveals a telling quirk: The only mention of “environment” is a promise to create a “business-friendly environment.” Instead, the document — essentially a mood board EU leader...
6 months ago
EU countries dilute fuel tax hike as green anger mounts
EU countries are proposing major delays and exemptions to a fuel tax overhaul meant to push Europe toward a more climate-friendly future, wary of the growing discontent over environmental policies, according to documents seen by POLITICO.The legislation,...
5 months ago
Macron warns Europe ‘can die’ in alarmist speech on protectionism, geopolitical threats
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron warned Thursday that Europe faces possible demise if it does not take bold action to tackle U.S. and Chinese protectionism, amid serious geopolitical threats from authoritarian regimes.In a bleak and solemn speech...
5 months ago