TAG: Industrial strategy
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
More ideas than cash: 5 takeaways from the EU’s defense push
It took a bloody Russian invasion to get the European Union to start thinking seriously about defense.In a taboo-breaking presentation on Tuesday, top EU officials laid out their plan for a dramatic overhaul of the bloc’s defense industry. The strategy in...
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
Brussels fights Putin with an arsenal of acronyms: The EU’s defense plans, explained
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, EU politicians lined up to demand an urgent rethink of European security. In order to protect themselves in an uncertain world, EU countries must reinforce their own defenses and work together far m...
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
Labour’s top policy priorities
LONDON — Keir Starmer has arrived in Downing Street with his new Cabinet. So what are their first priorities?Big-ticket items include decarbonizing the electricity grid by 2030, building 1.5 million homes over five years, hitting long-missed health servic...
2 months ago
The sleepy corner of England battling China
CORNWALL, England — The Conservatives have dominated politics in sleepy south-west England for nearly a decade. Suddenly, they're in deep trouble. A surge in support for the Liberal Democrats, the U.K.’s traditional third party, coupled with the Tories’ o...
2 months ago
How Ed Miliband became Britain’s most divisive government minister
LONDON — Six weeks on from Labour’s resounding election victory, no one in Keir Starmer’s Cabinet has moved quite as quickly as Ed Miliband. A former (failed) Labour leader, who critics deemed too left-wing and awkward to win over the British public, Mil...
2 months ago
Defense firms need full access to EU cash as Putin haunts Europe, Draghi says
European defense firms must not fear red tape as they ramp up weapons production, according to a new report seen exclusively by POLITICO.As Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine continues with knock-on effects for European security, the Continent's defe...
1 month ago
As the West slaps tariffs on Chinese cars, Britain ducks the fight
LONDON — While its allies slap steep tariffs on Chinese state-subsidized electric vehicles, Britain is sitting tight.The U.S., EU and Canada have put up barriers this summer after multiple probes found Beijing boosted its EV sector with billions in suppor...
1 month ago
It’s that man again! Veteran Dombrovskis as EU economy boss will reassure Germany.
BRUSSELS — The appointment of Valdis Dombrovskis — already a European commissioner for a decade — as the European Union’s economy chief is welcome news for the high priests of tight spending. By choosing the former Latvian prime minister for the role, Eu...
4 weeks ago
How Teresa Ribera became the second-most powerful person in Brussels
BRUSSELS — Ursula von der Leyen has a dream for Europe. Teresa Ribera is meant to make it happen.The European Commission president on Tuesday chose the Spanish climate expert to become one of the European Union’s most influential people — in charge of cha...
4 weeks ago
Germany retains quiet grip on Europe’s finances
BRUSSELS — Appearances can be deceiving. While the European Commission’s reorganization this week made it seem as if big-spending governments from the south had seized control, in reality Germany and co. retain an iron grip.Commission President Ursula von...
3 weeks ago
Keir Starmer channels his inner Boris Johnson
LONDON — Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson were the bitterest rivals. Yet it turns out they have one thing in common: a love for windmills bobbing in the ocean.Back in 2020, Johnson, then U.K. prime minister, conjured a patriotic vision of a green post-pande...
3 weeks ago