2023 was marked by crisis, transition and conflict.As the war in Ukraine dragged into its second yea...
8 months agoBRUSSELS — Benoît Laqueue was one of 100 disgruntled French farmers on a bus headed for the European...
8 months agoBRUSSELS — Italy's European Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni told POLITICO he will not run in the Europe...
8 months agoEurope’s center-right leaders assailing green policies are only feeding the rise of a Trump-style po...
8 months agoAlmost a year ago to the day, Ursula von der Leyen traveled to the snowy environs of Davos to make a...
8 months agoPARIS — 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 agoEU 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 agoBRUSSELS — Election fever is slowly killing an embattled law seeking to rehabilitate the European Union’s ailing rivers, forests and seas. The Nature Restoration Law, once billed as a pillar of the European Green Deal, is a shadow of its former self after...
6 months agoListen onSpotifyApple MusicGoogle PlayAcast As EU leaders received a stark warning about the climate risks facing the bloc, the European Commission caved to farmer protests and demands to slash environmental requirements.Host Sarah Wheaton talk...
6 months agoThe European Union's green agenda is increasingly under fire, which is prompting backers of the idea of ending the sale of fossil fuel cars by 2035 to unleash campaigns aimed at ensuring no backsliding after June's European election.On Wednesday, green gr...
6 months agoBRUSSELS — 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 agoPARIS — 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 agoBRUSSELS — 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 agoIgnore the prime minister, Belgium is committed to getting the EU's new nature rules approved. That's according to Brussels Environment and Climate Minister Alain Maron, who is responsible for steering talks among EU ministers on the highly controversial...
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