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Paris to everyone: Buy French solar panels, forget all competitors

Paris to everyone: Buy French solar panels, forget all competitors

PARIS ― France wants everyone buying French solar panels — and it's not being subtle. "I call on big decision-makers, energy companies and solar parks developers … to massively resort to 'Made in France' panels," France's Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire s...

6 months ago
Expect Russia to do ‘whatever possible’ to reassert influence in Bulgaria, outgoing PM warns

Expect Russia to do ‘whatever possible’ to reassert influence in Bulgaria, outgoing PM warns

Bulgaria's outgoing Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov spent his mandate trying to boot out the Russians, and has no doubt that Moscow will redouble efforts to recover its influence now his administration has collapsed. Denkov, who stepped down on Tuesday, tol...

6 months ago
Fraud-busters swoop on Greek contracts involving €2.5B of EU recovery funds

Fraud-busters swoop on Greek contracts involving €2.5B of EU recovery funds

ATHENS — Authorities are investigating allegations of fraud linked to the way €2.5 billion in EU funds has been awarded to just 10 companies in Greece, POLITICO can reveal. The offices of the country’s three telecommunications firms — Cosmote, Vodafone an...

6 months ago
Greek opposition seizes on EU funds fraud allegations

Greek opposition seizes on EU funds fraud allegations

ATHENS ― Rival politicians in Greece are demanding answers over fraud accusations linked to the way €2.5 billion in EU funds was awarded to just 10 companies.Opposition parties claim the country's center-right government, led by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mi...

5 months ago
The European Commission hopefuls with one thing on their mind

The European Commission hopefuls with one thing on their mind

BRUSSELS ― It’s as if the European Commission is a trendy nightclub with a long line of eager party animals desperate to be admitted.Only a handful will get the chance to strut their stuff the way they crave. And that means a place in the Commission for t...

1 month ago
The EU was built on red tape. Now it wants to slash it.

The EU was built on red tape. Now it wants to slash it.

BRUSSELS ― For decades, the European Union loved to regulate. Now, it wants to do the opposite.Where once, the "Brussels Effect" saw the EU set laws and standards the rest of the world couldn't help but follow, soon there will be a European commissioner f...

3 weeks ago