TAG: MEPs
Fires and a toppled statue: Farmers clash with police by EU Parliament
BRUSSELS — Police fired water at protesting farmers who clogged the streets of Brussels with tractor...
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
Blame game erupts after energy tax talks collapse in EU Parliament
BRUSSELS — Efforts to pass a key climate law before this year’s European election have stalled after talks in the Parliament collapsed this past week. MEPs made a fresh attempt to find an agreement on the EU’s outdated Energy Taxation Directive earlier th...
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
How the EU’s flagship nature law became an electoral punching bag
BRUSSELS — 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 ago
The gold treasure of National Bank of Romania that was sent to Moscow
The troubled story of the evacuation of the National Bank of Romania treasure to Moscow began during the First World War. Romania entered the war in August 1916, joining the ‘entente’ of France, United Kingdom and Russia. After the initial victories, Roma...
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
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
Bulgaria can’t join the eurozone in January. Here’s why.
Behind an imposing wooden desk in Sofia, in a complex once housing a statue of Lenin, the man who presides over the 20-strong group of eurozone finance ministers chose his words carefully.“I am strongly convinced that Bulgaria will join the euro area in 2...
5 months ago
Europe’s banks retreat from Moscow, with the ECB at their heels
Europe's banks' retreat from Moscow is entering its final stage, but instead of having General Winter at their heels, they have the European Central Bank.The ECB is tightening the screws on the last significant banking presences in Russia. It's one elemen...
5 months ago
The MEPs who actually matter
This article is part of the Brussels Survival Guide.There’s plenty to pay attention to in the new cohort entering the European Parliament — including, of course, the people. See below our guide on key figures across the policy palette.Céline Imart AGRICUL...
2 months ago
Germany wants a Brexit mega deal
LONDON — Keir Starmer has said he wants a broad new security agreement with the EU. It could end up being very broad indeed.Berlin wants to turn the British prime minister’s proposed security pact into a veritable Brexit mega deal: encompassing everything...
2 months ago
Who will be the next European commissioners?
BRUSSELS — You’ve got mail!Before taking a break to spend time with her family, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will ask the EU’s national governments to send in the names of who they want to be in the next team of commissioners.Each co...
2 months ago
The green leftie lawmaker taking on Europe’s economy
BRUSSELS ― If lobbyists and the finance industry were hoping for a more malleable chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs — well, they just had their hopes dashed. For the next five years, ECON will be led by the Fren...
2 months ago