TAG: Policy

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

A quiet revolution rocks central banking 

There’s a quiet revolution happening at the heart of central banking. On the surface, the inconspicu...

8 months ago

Europe to be late arrival at Federal Reserve party

The U.S. is having a party, and Europe is going to be unavoidably late to it. No fewer than four cen...

8 months ago

German budget crisis: Government reaches spending deal for 2024

Leaders of Germany's three-party ruling coalition agreed on a new draft budget for next year after w...

8 months ago

The UK’s great disappearing energy summit

LONDON — It was billed as the summit that would “rewire the global energy system” — a chance for Bre...

8 months ago

John Kerry’s America First climate legacy

MAGA may really hate John Kerry, but under his leadership U.S. climate diplomacy has stuck to its Am...

8 months ago

Middle East braces for chaos as Iran and West square up

Western warplanes and guided missiles roared through the skies over Yemen in the early hours of Frid...

8 months ago

Former Tory energy minister quits as MP over Sunak’s ‘harmful’ push for new oil and gas

The former energy minister who signed the U.K.’s 2050 net-zero target into law has quit the Conserva...

8 months ago

Poland on track to unlock €76B in EU funds, Warsaw minister says

Warsaw is on the path to unblocking €76 billion in EU cash that was frozen over rule-of-law-concerns...

8 months ago

EU warms up for fight over economic security

BRUSSELS — With an economic boxing match between China and the U.S. in full swing, the EU is getting...

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

How the far right aims to ride farmers’ outrage to power in Europe

BRUSSELS — If the far right ever seizes power across Europe, it may well ride in on the back of a tr...

8 months ago

EU heavyweights urge ‘ambitious’ 2040 climate targets — breaking silence

Several of Europe's most powerful countries implored Brussels to set "an ambitious climate target fo...

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