LONDON — The U.K. government is mulling plans which would hike household energy bills to help pay for a new nuclear energy plant.Ministers are considering tweaking the funding deal for Sizewell C, a proposed £20 billion nuclear plant in Suffolk, as they s...
6 months agoThe European Union has built a wall of duties against Chinese-made glass fiber, but a crack is widening. European producers of the lightweight material — used to strengthen plastics, and in wind turbine blades and vehicle components — say they need more p...
6 months agoBulgaria'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 agoEurope's banks' retreat from Moscow is entering its final stage, but instead of having General Winter at their heels, they have the European Central Bank.The ECB is tightening the screws on the last significant banking presences in Russia. It's one elemen...
5 months agoThe number of people employed in agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing scaled a 17-year high to 253 million in FY23, according to RBI data on capital, labour, energy, materials and service (KLEMS).FY23 was also the first year since FY07 when agricult...
2 months agoLONDON — Six weeks on from Labour’s resounding election victory, no one in Keir Starmer’s Cabinet has moved quite as quickly as Ed Miliband. A former (failed) Labour leader, who critics deemed too left-wing and awkward to win over the British public, Mil...
2 months agoAMATRICE, Italy — Gaetano Galli surveyed the quiet street and casually pointed out where the earthquake had wrought its havoc. There, the splintered wreck of a bungalow that caved in on a family of six; across the road, the spot where over a dozen were cr...
1 month agoOne of the new commissioners in Brussels will tackle a topic that voters care deeply about — but where the European Union has hardly any power: housing.“How can you be in charge of something that doesn't happen within the EU's competence, for which it has...
1 month agoBRUSSELS ― 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 agoBRUSSELS — The European Commission wants to make housing more affordable by squeezing more cash out of European Union funding programs and revising rules, according to a draft policy document seen by POLITICO.Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has...
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