TAG: Parliament
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
Ukraine hopes to avoid economic doomsday of not getting Western financial aid
KYIV — Ukrainians can’t bear to think what will happen if they don’t get the aid that EU leaders hav...
8 months ago
Party vote provides slight relief for Germany’s troubled coalition
BERLIN — The rulers of Germany’s fractious three-party coalition government can breathe a small sigh...
8 months ago
Germany’s budget crisis: No clear way forward after coalition misses deadline
BERLIN — The German government missed a self-imposed deadline for reaching a 2024 budget deal Wednes...
8 months ago
Poland edges closer to unblocking frozen EU funds
BRUSSELS / WARSAW ― Poland is confident it can unblock over €100 billion of frozen EU funds. The que...
8 months ago
Europe needs more cash, Belgian PM says
The European Union needs more of its own money, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo told POLITI...
8 months ago
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 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
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
Rishi Sunak’s Brexit trade agenda is faltering. Are the Gulf states his last hope?
LONDON — On the Red Sea coast at the northwest tip of Saudi Arabia, plans for an outlandish £400 billion ‘mega-city’ featuring an artificial moon and flying taxis are starting to take shape.While far from completion, the enigmatic project — known as NEOM...
6 months ago
UK strikes energy deal with firm linked to Putin’s gas exports
LONDON — U.K. hospitals, town halls and government departments will be heated via a massive energy deal with a subsidiary of a firm still importing Russian gas to Europe — just days after U.K. ministers boasted they were “driving Putin out of the market.”...
6 months ago
Claire Coutinho: The UK’s chancellor-in-the-wings?
LONDON — Late summer 2023. Claire Coutinho, a junior minister at the Department for Education and a rising star in the U.K. Conservative government, is enjoying a quiet morning at home when her phone rings.The caller has a message from one of Coutinho’s o...
6 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
Politics will decide ouster of Polish central banker, even harshest critics admit
WARSAW — The future of beleaguered National Bank of Poland chief Adam Glapiński will be decided by the the country’s ruling majority in a political decision rather than based on the accusations he faces, a number of critics say.Glapiński’s performance sin...
6 months ago