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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

Revealed — the next Brexit headache on the Irish border

LONDON — In 2019, Boris Johnson promised his Brexit deal would do away with checks on the Northern Irish border. Five years later, the region is about to be whacked with yet another trade headache.The latest tension comes from net zero rules, with the U.K...

6 months ago

Climate entrepreneurs are coming for Europe’s money 

BRUSSELS — Stefan Borgas already runs a multibillion-dollar Austrian company that supplies iron and steel factories. But that’s not exactly why he was in Brussels. Borgas was in the capital of the European Union seeking millions for a pet project that doe...

4 months ago

Weber crows as von der Leyen walks back EU deforestation drive

The EU’s nature wars are back.On Wednesday, the European Commission delayed for a year the introduction of landmark rules banning agricultural products from logged forests. The president of the center-right European Peoples’ Party (EPP), Manfred Weber, im...

1 week ago