TAG: Regions/Cohesion
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
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
Russian bombs failed to destroy Ukraine’s energy grid. Corruption could break its own
When Vladimir Putin landed in Khabarovsk on his tour of Russia’s Far East last week, he was given a...
8 months ago
‘Postcode lottery’ warning as UK energy chief weighs bills shake-up
LONDON — Claire Coutinho has promised to cut your energy bills. But she could end up hiking your neighbor’s in the process.The U.K. energy secretary is mulling sweeping reforms to the electricity market which, advocates say, could reduce bills by billions...
6 months ago
EU floats radical change to how it funds poorer members
BRUSSELS ― Countries may soon have to meet targets in return for their share of a large part of the EU budget under far-reaching plans drawn up by the European Commission.Until now, the bulk of so-called cohesion funding, which was worth €392 billion over...
6 months ago
Risk of ‘lost decade’ as EU countries face economic cliff edge
BRUSSELS — The year 2026 could be a defining moment for the European economy.The double blow of the introduction of reformed EU spending rules and the European Commission turning off the money taps may leave a black hole in the budgets of highly indebted...
6 months ago
Putin bombards Ukraine but US tells Kyiv to stop targeting Russian oil
KYIV — Russia launched a huge barrage of missiles and drones at Ukraine’s energy infrastructure overnight, leaving several cities without electricity and damaging the Dnipro hydropower plant, Ukraine's biggest dam.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy s...
6 months ago
ECB staff in uproar after lunch canteen downgrades olive oil
A staff mutiny over the quality of olive oil served at European Central Bank canteens was narrowly avoided after in-house caterers acquiesced to demands to bring back extra virgin options to the table.Staffers on the central bank’s internal messaging boar...
6 months ago
Intensive pig farming hogs scarce water in drought-hit Catalonia
BARCELONA — In the region of Osona, to the north of Barcelona, there are seven times as many pigs as people.Hectares of pig farms — long, barrack-like brick buildings with half-closed windows — stretch from the roadside into the distance. Metal cylinders...
6 months ago
EU signals end of free money for poorer countries
BRUSSELS — The European Commission is siding with a German-led group of fiscally conservative governments by resisting demands to finance spending through more borrowing — on top of a push to add conditions to the hundreds of billions of euros it gives th...
6 months ago
Will the EU get a war budget?
BRUSSELS — War is raging on its doorstep, the economy is in the doldrums, a European-wide election looks set to deliver a massive blow to its establishment — and now the EU is gearing up for what will be its bitterest battle yet: over its finances.Few thi...
5 months ago
EU shouldn’t leave newer members behind, Dombrovskis says on enlargement anniversary
Expanding the EU’s ranks has been an “overall” success — but an economic chasm between member countries persists, the bloc’s trade and economics chief said Wednesday.Twenty years after 10 Central and Eastern European countries joined the EU, it’s clear en...
5 months ago
Von der Leyen is in! Let the fighting over the next European Commission begin.
STRASBOURG — Ursula von der Leyen will spend the next five years as president of the European Commission. But getting the approval of EU leaders and MEPs is just the start. Now, she needs to start work on a puzzle so complicated it'll make solving a Rubik...
2 months ago
Russia unleashes ‘massive attack’ on Ukraine energy facilities
Ukrainian energy facilities came under a “massive attack" from Russia overnight, the Ukraine energy ministry said on Saturday, describing it as the eighth time Russia has launched an assault on energy infrastructure in the past three months.“The situation...
2 months ago